An essential read for all new staff and a useful reminder for all of how simple the risk Assessment process is.

This term's issue sees the launch of the 2017 Primary Science & Technology competition. Leigh Hoath, editor of ASE’s Primary Science, shares some ideas about moving children’s learning forward through activities which support joined up thinking. CLEAPSS launches Calrissa the bunny into space and we add a new twist to a popular D&T activity by designing a a space rover.

In this issue: COVID-19 safety measures for practical activities, quarantining, sound activities, making play dough.

A practical activity where children measure each other, calculate different body proportions and compare their data to that of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.