This document provides guidance on choosing and purchasing batteries for practical circuit work.

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 edition gives details of where to find advice about learning outdoors, some new ideas for D&T projects and advice about chinese lanterns and helium baloons.

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.