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The IGCSE format allows practical work to be taught theoretically, but hands-on experience makes learning much more engaging!

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Marine Science: 
 

Between September and April there will be 6 in-person workshops for Marine Science (MS) and they will be held at either:

🐠 Bristol Aquarium *
🧪 Science Creates Learning Lab 

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Cost: £45 per workshop.  We need a minimum of 20 young people signed up to enable these workshops to take place. 

 

Dates for these in person workshop days are: 
 

September 18th @ The Bristol Aquarium

Workshop 1: Investigating the properties of sea water - part 1
 

October 16th @ Science Creates Learning Lab

Workshop 2:  Investigating the properties of sea water - a deeper dive in - part 2
 

November 20th @ The Bristol Aquarium

Workshop 3: Identifying and exploring aquatic organisms
 

January 15th @ Science Creates Learning Lab

Workshop 4: Investigating aquatic food chains
 

March 5th @ The Bristol Aquarium

Workshop 5: Investigating populations and habitats - use Brandon Hill
 

April 16th morning on a Field Trip afternoon @ Science Creates Learning Lab

Workshops 6: A deep leap into sediments

 

* All Aquarium workshops include day pass to the Aquarium, learners will be welcome to explore. during their breaks and lunch time. ​

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Environmental Management​:
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The Environmental Management iGCSE has had a significant overhaul and this will be the first delivery of the exciting new course! We’re currently working on the finer details of each session, this is an overview of the fieldwork days.

 

Otter Brook is the perfect location for some of the key topics in the course, with its woodland, river and meadow to investigate. Our plan is to give the young people a patch of land to survey and manage over the duration of the 4 sessions.  They will set goals, and then survey, analyse and implement a positive impact on the biodiversity of their area.

 

Throughout our sessions we’ll be practising the key skills of the course by planning investigations, collecting and analysing samples and reaching conclusions. We’ll have a focus on the Land, Water and Ecoystems sections of the course, with other aspects being woven in along the way. Fieldwork and local case studies have a much stronger emphasis in the new course and so these fieldwork days will provide excellent real experiences to inform and embed the young people’s understanding.

 

We’re currently liaising with a local business and university to bring in specialist ecologists to work with the young people too, who’ll contribute some real life expertise on the environment, conservation and the challenges they face.

 

We’re excited and can’t wait to get started!

 

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Between July and April there will be 4 in-person workshops for Environmental Management (EM) and they will be held at:
 

 🌳 Otterbrook woods, Bath

Dates: 
Fridays - 1030am to 430pm

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July 24th

Sept 25th

Feb 12th

April 23rd

 

Cost: £45 per workshop.  We need a minimum of 20 young people signed up to enable these workshops to take place. 

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​Travel to locations is not included. You need to ensure your young person can get there. 

 

​The Hub will manage all the logistics of the MS in-person practical sessions plus bookings for EM. The logistics of the EM day will be managed by the team at The Meadow. 
 

Finally, we’ve arranged an 11% discount with 3A Tutors for learners taking this course at their exam centre in their Bristol. It is the responsibility of the parent to book and pay for the exam. 

* please contact us if you are a low income family, we have some limited discounted places.