This document outlines the purpose of monitoring and includes recommended activities to ensure that children’s learning experiences are exciting, engaging and motivating.

A practical activity that enriches basic flower dissection by encorporating microscopy.

In this issue we look at a beekeeping primary school and other opportunities for learning out of doors and some health and safety advice for visits from secondary school science teachers. There are updates to how you will be required to label any chemicals you have and a recipe for slime!

This term we take a look at keeping tadpoles, guinea pigs and other small mammals in schools and give few tips on teaching forces. We also reflect on a hundred years of the Association for Science Education.