Science plays a crucial role in shaping the future of our planet, and at Physics Partners, we’re on a mission to inspire and support the next generation of physicists. We’re a small charity focused on enhancing the physics skills of teachers and students, with a particular emphasis on underrepresented groups. We are seeking two new … Read more
Physics Partners are delighted to have received a £15,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation. The team at Physics Partners have strong ambitions to expand our reach to areas of deprivation throughout England. We therefore applied to the Garfield Weston Foundation for their support to allow us to continue to grow our infrastructure. This will … Read more
We are delighted to have secured funding from the Reece Foundation to deliver physics CPD training to non-specialist physics teachers in the North East. We are now inviting schools to apply to be one of the 18 schools supported through this funding. Physics Partners will deliver a series of topic based training sessions, both online … Read more
We are pleased to announce that Tommy Cookson, our Physics Partners Chairman, has been awarded an MBE for services to education in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List. Tommy has had a long and distinguished career in education. He is a founding trustee of Physics Partners and has served as Chairman since 2007. The charity … Read more
At the recent annual conference of HMC member (Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference) our advisor, trainer and former trustee Christina Astin led workshops about cross-sector partnerships. She knows from her extensive work in this area how many independent schools want to team up with their local state schools but are unsure of how to get started. Christina … Read more
Thank you for your interest in our Physics training programme. We are offering CPD training for physics teachers in Hampshire throughout 2021/22. The first session is ‘All About Electricity’ and we will be running this session at different venues across Hampshire: UTC Portsmouth: 4 pm to 6 pm, Wednesday 24th of November Winchester College: 4pm … Read more
IOP DOMAINS online CPD programme An integrated online CPD programme for all those involved in teaching physics, consisting of CPD videos designed to complement live, interactive, online CPD sessions for each physics domain. The CPD videos cover aspects of teaching at 11-14, 14-16 and 16-19 years. Each half term they will be running CPD sessions on two or more … Read more
The Physics Partners 2020/21 Annual Report is now available. This report highlights our achievements despite a difficult year for all those working in education. We are so pleased the charity is going from strength to strength given these challenges. Download a copy to read about how we adapted our programme during the pandemic, and to … Read more
There is a fantastic amount of support out there for new or non-specialist teachers of physics. This is just as well since specialist physics teachers are a rare breed and cannot mentor all the non-specialists teaching in their schools. It seems that despite the multitude of resources available from such august organisations as the Institute … Read more
Thanks to Krysia Sosin, former Head of Science at Buxton School in London and now a trustee for Physics Partners, for this guest blog post on how she focused on developing her own department to transform physics teaching in her school. Year after year our outcomes were improving but results for biology and chemistry continued … Read more