Due to the Happold Trust's generosity, we have been able to ramp up our Teacher Continuing Professional Development programme, and trained 225 teachers in FY 2008-09
Sean O'Malley, Chairman Smallpeice Trust
Year 9 STEM Session
The Happold Trust sponsors the Smallpeice Trust's CPD sessions designed specifically for teachers. These practical sessions focus on equipping teachers with ideas and skills to run a successful and engaging STEM day for their Year 6 to Year 11 students.
The Smallpeice Trust - an independent charity providing exciting programmes to promote engineering careers to young people.
Two types of activities are offered: science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sessions and residential engineering courses.
STEM sessions take place in-school and provide a short introduction for Year 8 and 9 students into creative thinking and problem solving. Students work together in small teams on ‘design and make’ projects.
4-day residential courses at universities take students interest in engineering a step further by exploring specific areas such as Biomedical Engineering or Supercomputing in Engineering, placing them alongside real engineers, professionals and technical specialists. All courses are accredited by the Royal Academy of Engineering Best Programme.
