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Latest news 21st August 2008
CLEAPSS Online Primary Resource
All our primary publications are now online and searchable! Please click the Primary resource button on the left. You will need the primary username and password as given in the PST Newsletter.
Primary Science and Technology Newsletter 41 Summer Term 2008
Despatch of copies of the summer term issue is now complete.
Copies are sent in bulk to local authorities for them to forward via their internal mail to their own schools (and to any associate members which subscribe via a local authority, ie, including any Foundation or independent schools which subscribe in this way). Some local authorities also put it on their schools' intranet. All local authorities responsible for education outside Scotland are now members of CLEAPSS and therefore all their primary schools (and relevant special schools, etc) should receive their copy of this term's newsletter soon. Many local authorities send copies out very quickly, but if your school does not receive the Newsletter within a month of despatch, we suggest you contact your local authority to find out why you have not had it. If you are unsure who to contact in the local authority, phone or e-mail us and we will tell you to whom we send the bulk mailings.
Associate members (ie, independent and Foundation schools etc not subscribing via a local authority) receive copies directly, by post. Overseas associates may take a little longer.
Remember that you can print out an index to all issues of the Newsletter (including the latest issue) from this web site, please click here.
The Primary Science and Technology Newsletter can also be downloaded from the Members' part of this web site, please click here.
New guide: L111 Tools and Techniques in Primary D&T: Using tools safely
This new guide offers general safety advice together with more-specific guidance on using tools for cutting, drilling and shaping materials. It discusses the tools that primary-age children can use safely and warns about the tools that should not be used. It explores various techniques that can be adopted to improve accuracy and also to help ensure that there are no mishaps in tool use. There is also extensive discussion about the safe use of glue guns.
The guide contains several photographs illustrating correct tool use and these are also available, in colour, to download from the members-only part of our web site as DL111, Tools & techniques: Photographs. They could be printed as discussion cards or enlarged as posters which are then displayed above work benches or to present safety points during a lesson.
This is on the members’ part of this web site. Your user name and password is given in the latest Primary Science & Technology Newsletter. Please click here to download L111 and please click here to download DL111.
New guide: L255 A Guide for Primary Science Coordinators
This new guide explores the role of the Science Coordinator. It discusses the management role of the coordinator, monitoring science in the curriculum, the school’s policy on teaching science, the resources needed for science and how to organise them and other topics. There are downloadable documents which can be customised to the needs of the school. Please click here to download the guide and click here to download the customisable documents.
New guide: E232p Common Safety Signs and Hazard Symbols
This electronic file gives a selection of signs and symbols that you might want to use when teaching about health and safety. The images can be easily extracted from the file, their size altered to make them smaller or larger and printed in colour or black and white. This is on the members’ part of this web site. Your user name and password is given in the latest Primary Science & Technology Newsletter. Please click here.
Be Safe!
Be Safe!, published by the Association for Science Education, is the major guidance for health & safety in primary schools that we recommend. If you would like an easy way to order this booklet, click here, which will take you to the ASE web site.
CLEAPSS Guidance for publishers and authors
Along with the ASE and SSERC, we have produced a document giving guidance for publishers, authors and readers on writing and checking the content of science text books so that important health and safety issues are addressed. To download a copy of Health and Safety Checks on Science Texts (227 Kb), please click here.
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