* outreach projects

* a lab-design software package so teachers can experiment with designs to suit different teaching styles, given free to maintained schools in England

* a website with information on school science communicators so schools can select speakers, access reviews from other schools and benefit from advice

* research the impact of science role-models on young people’s views and actions

* more than a million copies of the At Home with Science booklet for parents to support science study and science homework at KS23 will be distributed this term.

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