Latest News

The Trust CEO, Prof. Dudley Shallcross has been awarded the 2017 Nyholm Prize for Education from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

PSTT College Fellow Kate Redhead has won the Cambridge Primary Review Trust award for evidence-informed teaching.

PSTT funded project 'Curiouser and Curiouser/SPIES' developed at Hudson Road Primary School has just been awarded highly commended in the BERA Curriculum Journal Prize - judged by the British Curriculum Forum.

Oxford Brookes University and the Oxfordshire Science Learning Partnership have joined forces to run an exciting and informative conference.

Professor Dudley Shallcross, Director of the Primary Science Teaching Trust, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the College of Teachers.

Our International Conference is drawing to a close. The final panel discussion covered questions ranging from the place of specialist teaching of science in primary schools to influencing government to take a more enlightened view of encouraging STEM teaching (no clear answer there!) to evolution and ethics.

Congratulations to Professor Danielle George on the award of her well-deserved MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Danielle keynote lecture yesterday at our International Conference was very well received by delegates.

The final day of our International Conference started with a stimulating and inspirational lecture from Maggie Aderin-Pocock giving us 'A Tour of the Universe'.

A flurry of activity over the past two days on Twitter (#psttbelfast). Lots of tweets about keynote lectures and other sessions. Have a look!!

In the second keynote lecture at the PSTT International Conference in Belfast, Dr Stuart Brown made a convincing and entertaining case for the importance of play in children's emotional, social and cognitive development.