We haven’t in the past embraced Space Week as a whole school. It has always been left to individual teachers to engage with it – so maybe this is the year! I love the Renmore school’s rocket themed space week and I think it might be a simple way to introduce Space Week and to engage teachers and pupils in fun and exciting activities. It would generate huge excitement especially the launching of the various rocket designs.
https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/2019/02/ESERO%20-%20Space%20Week_booklet.pdf
This ESERO booklet is a fantastic resource. It provides a step by step guide to organising a week of activities for a whole school – from selling the idea to the school leadership team, to creating a plan, implementing the plan and even provide suggestions on how to review the week when it is all over.
The resource pack provides a simple general themed guide for the week for a whole school but also has a more detailed guide for the theme Stars and Astronomy. Picture books for example “Older than the stars” by Karen C Fox and Nancy Davis are used as a stimulus for many of the sessions with links to an online version of the book. It provides both creative activities and science focused enquiries linked to the theme. It also suggestions way to involve families in the week thus promoting positive attitudes towards science and encouraging them to get involved in the learning also. It is a cross curricular plan and even “the silly assembly games” could easily be adapted and used for fun PE lessons in the younger classes during the week.
Looking forward to a great week this year!