STEM Teacher Inspiration Days, 2012-13

We have planned three free STEM Teacher Inspiration Days in 2012-13.

Dates: Friday 7 December 2012, Wednesday 17 April 2013 and Thursday 4 July 2013.

Venue: University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA

Booking form: To register for places for 17 April please complete the online booking form. If you have any queries please email Kerstin Enright (or phone 01223 766839).

Interactive plenary session
The free NRICH STEM Teacher Inspiration professional development programme is for Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 mathematics, science and technology teachers who are committed to enhancing mathematical links across STEM subjects within their school. The aim is to help teachers nurture confident, resourceful and enthusiastic learners with a deeper understanding of the fundamental links between mathematics, science and technology. 

The programme is delivered by the NRICH team at the University of Cambridge. NRICH has developed new secondary stemNRICH resources for Key Stage 3 and 4, to complement and extend the existing stemNRICH - Advanced resources at Key Stage 5.  Thanks to generous support from the Clothworkers' Foundation we are able to offer free places to Key Stage 3, 4 or 5 mathematics, science and technology teachers from any school or college in the UK.

Each day will start at 10am (with registration from 9.30am) and end at 4pm. Each day will be highly interactive, with a mixture of plenary sessions and hands-on workshops. 

STEM workshopThe three days will be linked. Schools are therefore encouraged to send at least one subject specialist to all of the three days (attendance may be shared across departments, with one teacher attending the first day, a colleague the second day etc). However, as the three days are intended to stand alone, schools may alternatively choose to send one or more different specialists to a single day. See below for more detail on the focus for each day.

How to book:

To register for places for 17 April please complete the online booking form. 


Further information about the days is given below:


Friday 7 December 2012


Starting out with STEM: This day was focussed on activities such as planning a new STEM club, joining up the thinking in your classroom, or re-energising STEM in your school.

Resources from the first STEM Teacher Inspiration Day

Wednesday 17 April 2013

STEM: raising the profile: This day will focus on special STEM events - perhaps a topic started in one department one term, taken into another in the next term, and so on, or STEM as a focus for a day or week off timetable, or a STEM collaboration with another local school or feeder primary school.

Programme: click here 
About our speakers: 
David Spiegelhalter is Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, and Professor of Biostatistics, at the University of Cambridge. He led the statistical team in the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry and also gave evidence to the Shipman Inquiry. In his post he leads a small team (UnderstandingUncertainty.org) which attempts to improve the way in which the quantitative aspects of risk and uncertainty are discussed in society.  He works closely with the Millennium Mathematics Project in trying to bring risk and uncertainty into education.  He gives many presentations to schools and others, advises organisations and government agencies on risk communication, and is a regular columnist on current risk issues.  He presented the BBC4 documentary ‘Tails you Win: the Science of Chance”, and in 2011 competed in Winter Wipeout. He was awarded an OBE in 2006 for services to medical statistics.

Louise Orpin is the Education Officer at the Operational
Research Society.  Her role is to raise awareness of Operational Research (OR) among young people and teachers.



Thursday 4 July 2013

STEM discussionEmbedding STEM in the curriculum: Moving on from the STEM club and the special event to thinking through how STEM can become part of regular classroom practice.