This project has a lot of people involved to make it all happen. Here is a list of everyone involved and what their part in the project is.




The charity was re-launched in 2005 to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Sir Vivian Fuchs’ Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1956-58, and the Trustees re-focused the charity to:


To organize expeditions of young teachers of science and geography to undertake scientific expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic who will prepare teaching materials based on their science projects and their experiences which will be of use to meet the needs of the National Curriculum – these teaching materials to be available on the Foundations web site for the use of all schools.


www.fuchsfoundation.org






At Bull Precision Expeditions we provide tailor-made expeditions; we don’t do ‘package’ expeditions. The start point for your expedition begins with a blank piece of paper and a map. It’s as simple as that. Ideas are planned and put together over several months. What this means in reality is that provisional ideas and plans can change from the initial idea. This philosophy applies to both school trips overseas and the polar expeditions.


We go into the remote destinations where flight schedules can change. Some areas of the world we go into have very little detail on the maps; they are just blank white spaces on the map. At our heart, we are an old-fashioned expedition company. If it said “here be dragons”, that’s where we would be going.


www.bullexpeditions.com






Millgate House Education has created Ricky’s blog and is managing, and providing support, for the project. We are also developing materials and providing professional development. This includes working with the Newham teachers who are trialling the project resources in their classrooms.


Ricky is one of the puppets from the highly significant PUPPETS: talking science, engaging science project that we have run for the past four years. Lisa was one of the teachers involved in the PUPPETS research. We are delighted that they have both been selected for the Antarctica adventure.


Millgate House Education is a small, but influential, company that has a positive impact on learning and teaching through stimulating INSET, consultancy and research. This is supported by a small number of high quality user-friendly publications, including the innovative Concept Cartoons and Active Assessment materials. We also develop resources for other organisations, such as the British Science Association CREST STAR materials.


www.millgatehouse.co.uk






The PUPPETS: Talking Science – Engaging Science project supports teachers in using puppets in their classroom as part of their science teaching. It is based on research carried out in the PUPPETS Project. The research explored the use of puppets to engage and motivate children and promote conversations which help their learning in science. Puppets were used with primary school children to capture their interest, stimulate their thinking about science, challenge their ideas and model learning conversations.


www.puppetsproject.com






The ASE is the professional association for teachers of science. Membership of the Association is now of the order of 15 000, with a broad spread of membership from primary and secondary teachers, to technicians, those involved in Initial Teacher Education, and also includes some 2,000 student members. The Annual Conference now attracts in excess of 3,000 delegates. As well as its main journals, Education in Science, Primary Science, School Science Review and Science Teacher Education, ASE publishes new book titles every year.


www.ase.org.uk






Primary upd8 activities are downloadable white board presentations (with teacher notes for guidance) for all primary children which use topical events to create uniquely engaging science lessons. New activities are added regularly to the web site during term time. The full range of activities are easily located, and are searchable by age range, topic and curriculum links. They make the science curriculum more relevant and exciting, make teaching ‘scientific enquiry’ skills more compelling and accessible and support literacy and numeracy and other cross-curricular links and make great assembly material.


www.primaryupd8.org.uk






My name is Lisa Wood and I am a primary school teacher in East London. I am one of four teachers selected by the Fuchs Foundation to join their expedition to Antarctica. In November 2010 we left the chilly UK weather to go and spend 5 weeks camping in isolated locations in the even chillier climate of Antarctica! The reason? To create teaching resources and carry out educational science research that will help inspire a generation of future scientists. It was a tough slog but very worthwhile!


My interest in science education began when I first moved to London in 1997 and worked as an Explainer at the Science Museum. I have since become passionate about engaging children creatively in science. After working at the Science Museum for a year, I trained as a primary school teacher and have worked in Newham, East London ever since. My first school was St James’ C of E Junior School, and after that I went to Monega Primary School. I was science co-ordinator in both schools, and in 2007 I was honoured to be awarded one of the Primary Science Teacher of the Year awards from the ASE. I became an Advanced Skills Teacher for Primary Science in 2008 where I work to support the teaching of science in schools across the borough. I am currently working in Kaizen Primary school where I am continuing to work as an AST.


www.freezingteachers.com






Kaizen Primary School is an inclusive learning community that is innovative, creative and reflective. Here at Kaizen we’re very proud of our school and what we do here! We’re a little bit different from many schools, we’re passionate about learning, dedicated to our community and enjoy every aspect of coming to school each day.


Kaizen is a Japanese word, that means making continuous improvement to your life by putting the effort in every day. For the children we talk to them about each day at school being part of a bigger journey, each day is an important one as each day you’re taking small steps towards big dreams.


Learning is central to every thing at Kaizen. We believe children learn through experimenting, through investigating through play and through collaborating with others. We design our learning environment around those themes, so that the children can be fully involved in their learning and hopefully retain a passion for learning that stays with them for life.


We’re really excited to have taken part in Lisa and Ricky’s Antarctic adventure and loved investigating!


www.kaizen.newham.sch.uk






Created by Trust Deed in April 1997, the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust provides financial assistance to help improve the learning and teaching of science in the UK. Our objective is to help improve in Britain the education of children and young people in science. Funded by the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust, the site reports on exciting developments, provides excellent resources for Continuing Professional Development and offers a growing range of lesson and planning resources.


www.azteachscience.co.uk






London Borough of Newham has the youngest and most diverse population in the UK. More than 40 per cent of the 254,000 people in Newham are under 25 years old and more than 100 languages are spoken locally – from Albanian to Zhuang. All of which makes for an exciting area rich in culture, flavour and atmosphere where local people take great pride in being part of a global village.


Situated just three miles from the city, Newham takes in much of London’s revitalised docklands.The borough is at the centre of London’s plans for the 2012 Olympic games. The borough’s youthful vigour and creativity has fused with the traditional East End values of warmth, friendliness, community spirit and good humour to make Newham a welcoming place with a unique character.


Newham schools took part in the Antarctic project, with Kaizen Primary School, being the host school. The aim was to engage as many children as possible, by developing their ideas and suggestions into workable activities that could be undertaken in both the antarctic and primary classrooms.