The Primary Science Teaching Trust, in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London, invites children from UK primary schools to submit entries for our design competition.
We would like primary school children to use their imaginations to design a beautiful object that could be made from glass, which they think would also be useful in a primary science classroom.
Glass in Society projects have been taking place across the UK now for over thirty years, where primary and secondary schools apply for funding to purchase glass related equipment to allow them to offer a more rounded view of science for their students. This has proven to be most successful where group of schools or academies have applied to the charity fund, and then share the resource between them. Quite recently a group 19 schools in Cornwall applied for a grant to fund telescopes at a cost of just under £3,000 – over 5000 students now benefit from the assistance given.
The PSTT is delighted to be collaborating with the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Charity Fund to create new resources that champion ‘bringing glass back into the primary classroom’