New project to explore inquiry skills
Southampton Education School has secured funding from the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust to run a primary science research project.
Entitled Developing Inquiry Skills Across the Curriculum: a project with the Mary Rose Trust, the University of Southampton is collaborating with primary and junior schools in Southampton and The Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth.
The project aims to enable teachers to explore generic inquiry approaches and map their findings to the new primary curriculum; it will support the identification and development of cross-curricular inquiry skills, as well as developing approaches and practices to support science enquiry through consolidation across a range of curriculum areas.
Teachers from the schools involved will work with researchers from the University, including Dr Marcus Grace, Dr Janice Griffiths, Colin Stevens and with the Education Team at the Mary Rose Trust, facilitated by colleagues from the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre.
The project will run from June 2013 to October 2014.