Primary enrichment outreach programme Spring 2019 by University of Exeter

Primary Enrichment Outreach Programme Spring 2019

Years 3-6

Welcome I am delighted to introduce the University of Exeter’s Primary Enrichment Outreach Programme for Spring 2019. This prospectus outlines the exciting and comprehensive range of activities that we offer across Key Stage 2, from Years 3 to 6. Our Outreach Programme was first established in 2007 and in that time we have brought together the knowledge, expertise and experience of our tutors and lecturers to provide high quality teaching and learning experiences. Our programme aims to encourage and develop the progression, attainment and aspiration of school-age pupils and is specifically aimed at engaging pupils who demonstrate a particular interest, skill or potential in a specific subject area. Our hope is that pupils further their passion and understanding for their subject; feel inspired by practical, hands-on learning activities and meet like-minded peers, all within the context of a Higher Education setting. We look forward to welcoming you!

Our Pupils: We welcome Key Stage 2 children from all backgrounds, from state education to home schooling, and in particular those children who demonstrate a particular interest or aptitude for a subject. We are committed to supporting children from disadvantaged or under-represented groups, and are therefore pleased to offer free places to children from low income or Pupil Premium backgrounds. Please contact us to apply for a place.

Pupil safety: All members of the Primary Enrichment Outreach team hold an enhanced DBS certificate. All students participating in events are supervised by a member of our team. All activities held at the University of Exeter undergo a risk assessment before they take place, and we have fully trained first aiders on site.

How to book: Courses are £35 each, with free places available to those from low income or Pupil Premium backgrounds. To book a place please visit our website and follow the link to our online store: www.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/education/

enrichment For individuals wishing to apply for a free place, or for schools wishing to make block bookings and pay by invoice please contact us at enrichment@exeter.ac.uk before proceeding with payment.

Tel: 01392 724816 Website: http:// socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/ enrichment/ Address: Primary Enrichment Outreach team, Graduate School of Education, St.Luke’s Campus EX1 2LU Outreach Coordinator: Helen Hicks

Primary Enrichment Programme—Spring 2019 Course Date

Year group

Course Title

Page

Wednesday 6th March

Year 3 and 4

ICT: Scratchtastic

P19

Wednesday 6th March

Year 6

Science: The Structure of Matter

P17

Thursday 7th March

Year 4

Maths: Code Breakers

Friday 8th March

Year 3 and 4

Science: Perfect Propulsion

P15

Friday 8th March

Year 5 and 6

ICT: Block Coding Bonanza

P20

Saturday 9th March

Year 3 and 4

English: Spring Fever!

Monday 11th March

Year 3 and 4

Humanities: Fabulous Fossils; Marvellous Monsters

P10

Monday 11th March

Year 5 and 6

English: Discovering Shakespeare “The Winter’s Tale”

Monday 11th March

Year 5

Science: Plastics

P18

Wednesday 13th March

Year 3, 4, 5 & 6

Dance: Earth Dance

P13

Wednesday 13th March

Year 5 and 6

Humanities: Food Glorious Food

P11

Wednesday 13th March

Year 5 and 6

Art: Bonkers Buildings

P12

Thursday 14th March

Year 3 and 4

Science: Light Fantastic

P16

Thursday 14th March

Year 5 and 6

Maths: Problem Solving

Book and pay for your places here

Year 4 Maths Key details  Date: 7th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

 Tutor: Debi Lomax, Occasional

Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Exeter

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

Course Title

appropriate clothing)

Code Breakers

Course description Come and be a Maths Detective for the day. This workshop encourages pupils to use their investigation skills to solve a range of mathematical problems with a focus on code-breaking. We will explore, analyse and break a range of codes from historical to modern day times, and consider contexts for their use. Emphasis will be placed on working collaboratively to share ideas and ‘sift through clues’. Pupils will also be encouraged to analyse what makes a good cypher, and to generate their own codes for others to solve. During the course pupils will:

How to book

- Analyse a range of different cyphers - Create coded messages and decipher others’ messages

If you would like to book places, please follow the link on our webpage to the Online Store: www.socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/enrichment/

- Work collaboratively as a team to break a series of coded messages

To apply for a free place or for schools requesting a block booking invoice, please email us at enrichment@exeter.ac.uk 4

Year 5 and 6 Maths What to bring

Key details  Date: 14th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

 Tutor: Debi Lomax, Occasional

Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Exeter

 Packed lunch

 Water  Everyday pencil case

Course Title

 School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing)

Problem Solving

Course description This workshop is designed for pupils to engage in a range of problem -solving activities and in particular to develop their algebraic thinking. Pupils will be encouraged to solve specific problems and then explore ‘what if...?’ questions - leading towards generalising. Emphasis will be placed on developing pupils’ mathematical reasoning skills moving from visual to more abstract problems. We will explore a range of problems that will require pupils to be systematic. Peer talk will be a key feature of the session as pupils explain their approaches to problems. The workshop is ideal for pupils who enjoy, and have an analytical approach to problem solving. Part of the session will consider the basics of algebra using letters as unknowns and as variables. The workshop is aimed at pupils who are able to use abstract thinking and who enjoy generating rules and problems for others to solve.

How to book If you would like to book places, please follow the link on our webpage to the Online Store: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/enrichment/ To apply for a free place or for schools requesting a block booking invoice, please email us at enrichment@exeter.ac.uk 5

Year 3 and 4 English What to bring

Key details  Date: 9th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Tutor: Emma Cox, Associate Lecturer at the University of Exeter, Author of Malkin Moonlight (Bloomsbury)

Course Title Spring Fever!

 Packed lunch

 Water  Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing)

Course description Let’s celebrate the coming of Spring. We will read Spring poetry and prose written by some of the best children’s authors of all time. We will look at how Spring arrives in different books and poems. We will personify her and write our own poetry about what she does and what magical powers she brings to the world.

We will go outside and personify the natural world using imagery to bring our writing to life. We will use eggs and daffodils inside the classroom to create metaphor and simile in our own poetry writing. We will personify flowers, leaves, the sky, the earth, the animals and give them all a voice. We will create a Spring setting and do some beautiful descriptive writing. Join me if you are creative, you love to read and write, and Spring makes you a tiny bit crazy.

How to book If you would like to book places, please follow the link on our webpage to the Online Store: www.socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/enrichment/ To apply for a free place or for schools requesting a block booking invoice, please email us at enrichment@exeter.ac.uk 6

Year 5 and 6 English Key details  Date: 11th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Anita Wood, Lecturer at the University of Exeter on the PGCE Primary Course, Specialising in English, Humanities and Thinking Skills

Course Title

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing)

Discovering Shakespeare “The Winter’s Tale”

Course description Are you an avid reader? Do you love stories? Do you like using the reading you do to help you write creatively? Are you happy to share your ideas using drama? Then this course is for you. We will have a fun and active day with plenty of chance to share your creative ideas. During the course we will learn about one of Shakespeare's lesser known plays, "The Winter's Tale", a perfect story for a March day! We will learn using a range of drama strategies, hotseating, improvisation, and mask work. We will find out about the world of Shakespeare, and "The Globe", the theatre he worked in, and how this influenced his work. We will use Shakespearean language and work on short drama and creative writing activities. It will be a creative, dramatic and brain stretching day!

Year 5 and 6 English Key details  Date: 16th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Emma Cox, Associate Lecturer at the University of Exeter, Author of Malkin Moonlight (Bloomsbury)

Course Title

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing)

We Like March, His Shoes Are Purple

Course description Let’s go for a walk through literature and personify the natural world as we go. We will read poetry and fiction from some of the finest writers and poets and learn lines by heart. We will bring objects from nature indoors and take them apart and write about them and as them.

We will enjoy outdoor learning and write about what we can see, feel, hear, smell and touch. We will write a poem called March 16th about exactly what the university campus looks and feels like on the day of our course. We will personify flowers, leaves, the sky, the earth, the animals and give them all a voice. We will employ figurative language including simile and metaphor to describe things in different ways. Join me if you are creative and love to read, write and get your fingernails dirty.

Year 3 and 4 Humanities and Art Key details  Date: 12th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring Tutor: Anita Wood, Lecturer at the University of Exeter on the PGCE Primary Course, Specialising in English, Humanities and Thinking Skills

Course Title

 Packed lunch  Water  Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing e.g. coat)

Imagine a Dragon

Course description Everyone can imagine a dragon! This course will help you use your art, storytelling and writing skills to bring your own dragon to life. Dragons appear in so many wonderful stories and books! On this course we will be working with Jackie Morris’ beautiful book called “Tell me a Dragon!” In the morning we will spend time in the art room creating our own dragons using drawing, collage and batiq. In the afternoon we will bring our dragons to life with words – using oral story-telling, writing and poetry. Bring along your imagination, your knowledge of dragons from the books you have read and the stories you know and be prepared for a day of fun and creativity!

Year 3 and 4 Humanities What to bring

Key details  Date: 11th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Tutor: Jenny Perry, Specialist Teacher of Art and History in Primary Schools and a University Tutor for Trainee Teachers

Course Title Fabulous Fossils: Marvellous Monsters

Course description Do you have an interest in Prehistoric animals and plants? Maybe you also enjoy art and model making? Then this is the course for you.

 Packed lunch  Water  Everyday pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

appropriate clothing)  (Optional) any fossils or photos of fossils that you ay have at home. Put in a transparent bag with your name on.

You will have the opportunity to handle, sort and draw an amazing collection of fossils from around the world and find out about their origins. You will get to think about what the world was like when these fossils were alive and make some imagined ‘Dinoramas’ (model dinosaur scenes) of your own.

Year 5 and 6 Humanities What to bring

Key details  Date: 13 March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Course Title

Tutor: Anita Wood, Lecturer at the University of Exeter on the PGCE Primary Course, Specialising in English, Humanities and Thinking Skills

 Packed lunch

 Water  Everyday pencil case

School uniform not required (weatherappropriate clothing)

Food Glorious Food

Course description Are you interested in where your food comes from? In sustainability and fairness? Do you like working as part of a team to find answers to “big” questions? Then this course is for you!

This interactive and exciting course will help children develop their geography and thinking skills. During the morning we will be using infographics and videos to find out about food production around the world. We will think about where our food comes from and how it travels to our tables. During the afternoon, children will work in teams in a "real world" food simulation game, taking on the roles of producers, farmers, wholesalers, retailers and customers. This will provide them with first-hand experience of the challenges of food production and lead to deep thinking about possible solutions. During the day we will use our mathematics skills, teamwork, our powers of persuasion and think about basic economics. This geography and thinking skills course is perfect for children who love to discuss, debate and think about big, real world questions.

Year 5 and 6 Art What to bring

Key details  Date: 13th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Tutor: Jenny Perry, Specialist Teacher of Art and History in primary schools.

 Packed lunch  Water bottle  Everyday Pencil case  Photos/drawings of your own house or a

Course Title

building that inspires you (optional)

Bonkers Buildings: Grand Designs

Course description Do you like the buildings where you live: your city, your town, your village, your house? Have you been inspired by buildings you have seen in other places? Do you enjoy art and would like to develop your skills in drawing and 3D design?

Bonkers Buildings will introduce you to taking a closer look at the variety, brilliance and wonder of the buildings around you and further afield. During the day you will have the opportunity to go outside and draw some of the wonderful buildings in the St Lukes university quadrangle. You will look at pictures of some amazing and wacky buildings from around the world and design a future imaginary building of your own using a choice of materials including pens, paint, junk materials and lego.

Year 3 and 4 Dance Key details  Date: 13th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Alex Parks, Associate Lecturer in Physical Education and Dance at the University of Exeter

 Water

 Comfortable clothes to dance in

Course Title Earth Dance

Course description This contemporary Dance workshop will cover all the basic skills of National Curriculum dance including space, time, levels, direction, dynamics and pathways as well as working on individual dance ideas. We will be looking at the different ways of using dance to help us with relaxation and concentration. This is an exciting new workshop aimed at exploring movement as an aid to bringing peace to the body and helping to alleviate anxiousness through ‘being in the moment’ as your body moves to a range of different music, as well as having lots of fun! Learning to critically explore your own and each other’s dance movements will be a large focus of the workshop as this is when your own development in dance can really progress. You will be giving positive feedback to your peers and learning to be a critical friend. Adding your own individuality to different movements will be greatly encouraged. This exciting dance workshop for year 3 & 4 girls and boys will challenge your creativity in a positive and nurturing environment, whilst developing your knowledge of the greater world of dance movement.

Year 5 and 6 Dance Key details  Date: 8th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Alex Parks, Associate Lecturer in Physical Education and Dance at the University of Exeter

 Water

 Comfortable clothes to dance in

Course Title Paths of Peace

Course description This contemporary Dance workshop will cover all the basic skills of National Curriculum dance including space, time, levels, direction, dynamics and pathways as well as working on individual dance ideas. We will be looking at the different ways of using dance to help us with relaxation and concentration. This is an exciting new workshop aimed at exploring movement as an aid to bringing peace to the body and helping to alleviate anxiousness through ‘being in the moment’ as your body moves to a range of different music, as well as having lots of fun! Learning to critically explore your own and each other’s dance movements will be a large focus of the workshop as this is when your own development in dance can really progress. You will be giving positive feedback to your peers and learning to be a critical friend. Adding your own individuality to different movements will be greatly encouraged. This exciting dance workshop for year 5/6 girls and boys will challenge your creativity in a positive and nurturing environment, whilst developing your knowledge of the greater world of dance movement.

Year 3 and 4 Science Key details  Date: 8th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring Tutor: Katherine Smith, History, Maths and Science Tutor and Forest School leader

 Packed lunch

 Water  Everyday pencil case

Course Title

 Practical, old clothing and sensible closed

-top footwear, no flip-flops, sandals etc. (children will be provided with lab coats)

Perfect Propulsion

Course description For children: Have you ever wondered how things move— or don’t? This course will explore movement, due to forces. We will use this knowledge to test a number of simple vehicles throughout the day from cars to rockets to see if their propulsion is perfect!

For adults: The National Curriculum states that ‘Pupils in years 3 and 4 should be given a range of scientific experiences to enable them to raise their own questions about the world around them.’ This course starts from the National Curriculum, but goes far beyond what is expected for this age group. This course aims to teach children, through hands on experiments, how forces behave and how forces can be utilised to make objects move.

Year 3 and 4 Science Key details  Date: 14th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Katherine Smith, History, Maths and Science Tutor and Forest School leader

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  Practical, old clothing and sensible closed

Course Title

-top footwear, no flip-flops, sandals etc. (children will be provided with lab coats)

Light Fantastic

Course description For the student: This exciting Year 3/4 course will help you to discover the many fantastic facts about light. We will use hands-on experiments and demonstrations throughout the day, so that you can test and investigate what you have learnt for yourself!

For adults: The National Curriculum states—Pupils in years 3/4 should be given a range of scientific experiences to enable them to raise their own questions about the world around them. We will start with the National Curriculum’s planning for light, but this course will extend far beyond its parameters. We will use hands-on experiments that will enable children to experience the fantastic properties of light! We will explore different sources of light including the sun, chemical reactions and natural phenomena

Year 6 Science Key details  Date: 6th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Sue Godfrey, Associate Lecturer in Science, The University of Exeter

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  Practical, old clothing and sensible closed

Course Title

-top footwear (children will be provided with lab coats)

The Structure of Matter

Course description Have you ever wondered what ‘stuff’ is made of? We will be finding out by investigation, using modern scientific methods and equipment. You will find out how scientists have discovered lots of information about particles so small or so far away no-one has ever seen them! You will also learn that energy is involved in holding particles together and breaking them apart. This course extends beyond the demands of KS2 and will form a good basis for KS3 and beyond. There will be a range of practical activities including: - combining different substances to make new compounds - preparing gases - learning about the Periodic Table of elements - constructing model molecules

Year 5 Science Key details  Date: 11th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

What to bring  Packed lunch

Tutor: Sue Godfrey, Associate Lecturer in Science, The University of Exeter

 Water

 Everyday pencil case  Practical, old clothing and sensible closed

Course Title

-top footwear (children will be provided with lab coats)

Plastics

Course description People had not even heard about plastics 100 years ago – they did not exist! Now lots of our everyday objects that used to be made of metal or wood are made of plastic. It’s very useful stuff but there are also hazards associated with them.

Find out how to identify the many different types of plastic and how they are made. We can even try to make some plastic in the laboratory! This topic covers a considerable breadth of scientific study beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2 - Properties and Changes of Materials.

Pupils will have every opportunity to experience working in a modern, well equipped laboratory and this is intended stimulate their interest in Science.

Year 3 and 4 ICT What to bring

Key details  Date: 6th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Tutor: Clare Nevinson, Computing in Schools Specialist Teacher, CAS Master Teacher

 Packed lunch and an extra energy snack  Water  Pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

Course Title

appropriate clothing e.g. coat)

Scratchtastic!

Course description Are you interested in coding? New to Scratch or not this course has something for every coder. We will start with animation and move on to game creations. You will have the opportunity to develop your computer science skills of logical reasoning and generalisation.

Year 5 and 6 ICT What to bring

Key details  Date: 8th March 2019

 Venue: St Luke’s campus

Tutor: Clare Nevinson, Computing in Schools Specialist Teacher, CAS Master Teacher

 Packed lunch

 Water  Pencil case  School uniform not required (weather-

Course Title

appropriate clothing)

Block Coding Bonanza

Course description From dancing robots in Robo Dancer to quiz masters in Scratch. During this fun packed day you will have the opportunity to explore and work with different block coding platforms. A brilliant opportunity for budding computer scientists to develop their logical reasoning skills and understanding of sequencing, repeats, selection and variables.

How to find us

Address University of Exeter St Luke's Campus Heavitree Road Exeter EX1 2LU More information about the campus and directions can be found here: www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/ directions/stlukes/

Registration and collection point Please arrive at Baring Court (number 5 on the map) by 9:15 am to register. Courses start promptly at 9:30 am. Children need to be collected by 3:30pm from the same place by a known adult.

Parking onsite Please display the 10 minute ‘drop off’ parking permit on your car’s dashboard when parking on-site. This can be found on the booking confirmation letter. Alternatively, the nearest public car park is at The Triangle, off Heavitree Road (see Exeter city centre map).