Since its launch in 2016 the Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) has become an unmissable event in the calendar of 1000s of schools across the world. My Science Club are huge advocates for the GSSfS having both run events over a number of years, bringing pupils and schools together to ask questions and share ideas.

My Science Club very much shares the underpinning values of GSSfS by being:

  • learner-focused - the resources let pupils investigate things they are interested in

  • fully inclusive - all the activities are designed in this way

  • collaborative - through contexts that are relevant to pupils’ lives

For 2024, My Science Club have written a special GSSfS pack that can be used as an enrichment activity. It engages pupils to ask, investigate and share their learning from exploring the scientific question: ‘How can we recycle paper?’

 My Science Club resources can also be used in many other ways to enhance GSSfS in your setting.

  • Explore different engineering concepts with the Limited Resource Challenges

  • Inspire pupils with the Up Close and Personal library

  • Access some of the sessions as a launchpad for pupils developing their own investigations.

Limited Resource Challenges

These STEM based challenges are designed to let pupils collaboratively explore different concepts using as few resources as possible. They force them to be creative with the resources they have, problem solve and show resilience as they try and complete the challenges.

Limited Resource Challenges all come with a teacher’s guide to help support the pupils to get the most out of the challenge.

Up Close and Personal Library 

The Up Close and Personal images are designed to get pupils wondering, puzzling and asking questions about the world around them…ideal therefore for use to generate enquiry questions as part of Great Science Share for Schools!

With an image library of over 200 microscope, and macro, photographs of a wide range of subjects, your pupils will certainly be asking questions about the world around them. There are great links with curriculum areas - from materials, nature, the human body and much more.

Topical Science Updates

Topical Science Updates have been inspiring pupils around the world for more than 10 years with cutting edge science stories simply presented.

These monthly newsletters link the science that pupils are learning in class to cutting edge science, technology and engineering. Use as part of your Great Science Share for Schools to inspire pupils to be curious about science in the world around them and make relevant links to the science they are doing at school.

What questions will your pupils raise about the world in which they live?

My Science Club Sessions

My Science Club sessions are carefully crafted to encourage collaboration, inspire wonder and get pupils asking questions about the world around them - an ideal pairing for Great Science Share for Schools.

There are packs, and sessions, aimed at early primary, middle primary and upper primary covering Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Science. Each pack of sessions is centred round an engaging context covering everything from chemical reactions to plants, energy to the Solar System and flight to the microscopic world.

There are a range of free sessions available so you can see if My Science Club is the right fit for you and your pupils.

Use as part of your 2024 Great Science Share for Schools to extend beyond the school day. Why not get your school’s STEM/Science clubs also taking part in GSSfS? Or, use the My Science Club resources to involve parents - they too can support pupils at home to ask, investigate and share their science!

Paul and Bryony are co-founders of My Science Club and are both dedicated to supporting all educators teaching science in any setting. We can be contacted at hello@myscienceclub.com