STEM Week 2026

Join this session where we will explore the anatomy of one of the most remarkable invertebrates on Earth, the squid, through dissection and discussion.

Date: Monday 9 March

Select one of these session times: 09:00-09:50, 09:55-10:45

Suitable for Years 5 and 6

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Explore how sets of simple rules can create chaotic unpredictable systems to model reality using SimCity, the Game of Life and Rule 30: Cellular Automata.

Date: Monday 9 March

Session time: 09:00-09:50

Suitable for Years 3-6

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Have you got what it takes to be a codebreaker? You may have heard of Maths Kangaroos and Olympiad but have you discovered the Linguistics Olympiad?

Step into the world of puzzle‑solving, where you’ll learn to crack codes using patterns, logic and hidden clues. No prior knowledge required.

Date: Monday 9 March

Select one of these session times: 09:00-09:50, 09:55-10:45, 11:15-12:05, 12:10-13:00

Suitable for Years 4-6

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Get a hands-on introduction to coding with our Micro:bit workshop. You will explore built-in sensors, create interactive programs, and discover how fun and empowering digital creativity can be.

Date: Monday 9 March

Session time: 09:55-10:45

Suitable for Years 5 and 6

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Try your hand at soldering!

We will discuss how to solder, what to take into account to make a circuit work and how to keep safe. Pupils will carefully solder together their own circuit kits to make a working device that they keep at the end of the session.

Date: Monday 9 March

Select one of these session times: 11:15-12:05 or 12:10-13:00

Suitable for Year 6

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Join a Sevenoaks Teacher to get hands-on experience with polymorphic and photochromic smart materials.

Date: Monday 9 March

Select one of these session times: 12:10-13:00 or 13:10-14:00

Suitable for: Years 4-6

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Join a Sevenoaks teacher and students to get hands-on experience with pond life, teeth, bones and microscopes!

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Session times: 09:00-09:50 or 10:15-11:05

Suitable for: Years 5 and 6

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Join a Sevenoaks teacher and students to get hands on experience with static electricity, electromagnets and circuits.

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Select one of these session times: 09:00-09:50 or 10:15-11:05

Suitable for: Years 5 and 6

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Energy LIVE! is an exciting audience-led show, delving into the different stores of energy and how they affect our lives. Through lively, fire-based demonstrations we take the intimidation out of the terminology around energy and show you just how simple this subject can be.

Pupils will leave not only knowing their elastic from their gravitational, but also fired up (pun intended) about energy and with a newly-enthused approach to science.

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Session times: 09:15-10:05 or 13:15-14:15

Suitable for: Years 1-6

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This fun filled show is designed to get everyone excited about science. All of our shows are jam-packed with experiments, explosions and hands-on participation. The Community Show’s aim is to instil wonder and enthusiasm about science in the local schools’ community.

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Session time: 11:15-12:05

Suitable for Y1-6

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Join a Sevenoaks teacher and students to get hands on experience with separation techniques, changes of state and chemical reactions!

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Select one of these session times: 11:15-12:05 or 12:15-13:05

Suitable for Years 5 and 6

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Join a Sevenoaks teacher and students to get hands on experience with different ways of generating electricity.

Date: Tuesday 10 March

Select one of these session times: 11:15-12:05 or 12:15-13:05

Suitable for Years 5 and 6

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Suitable for Y5 and 6

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The focus of the CPD session is to explore demonstration techniques in practical science for teachers and is designed to help staff members build skills and confidence to inspire children with practical science in engaging and simple ways.

Suitable for primary school teachers

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What if a pill could make you rich and powerful? What if the tagline to the 2011 film, Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper, were true? What if it were possible to engineer a drug compound that could change you overnight, turning you into an uber-intelligent, ultra-strong superhuman? Is this Hollywood science-fiction or is there a foundation in reality? This talk explores how developments in small-molecule targeting might just allow you to do whatever you want.

Date: Wednesday 11 March

Session time: 15:20-16:10

Suitable for Years 12 and 13

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Using a handheld ultrasound device, Dr Gu will demonstrate how to quickly assess heart conditions in just a few minutes. Students will also have the opportunity to learn how to capture ultrasound images of their own hearts.

Date: Thursday 12 March

Select one from these session times: 09:00-09:50 or 09:55-10:50

Suitable for Years 9 and 10

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Dr Niki Kalaydzhieva gives an overview of the work of past and present female mathematicians, championing their often-overlooked achievements and showcasing how diversity and inclusion can enrich mathematics.

Dr Kalaydzhieva is a lecturer at University College London (UCL), specialising in teaching pure maths, outreach and widening participation. She loves showing people the breadth of the subject, going well beyond the usual school curriculum and finding maths in some surprising places.

Session times: 09:00-09:50

Suitable for: Years 10-13

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Session times: 09:55-10:45

Suitable for Years 10-13

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Join Dr Niki Kalaydzhieva to learn how to play the card game SET, where the challenge is to find collections of three cards that satisfy special properties.

In this workshop, pupils will explore the mathematical questions hidden in the game; Investigate how many cards (out of 81) are needed to guarantee a SET; Build an abstract model of the deck using algebra and projective geometry and discover concepts such as modular arithmetic and lines and curves over different spaces.

No prior knowledge required – just curiosity and a love of puzzles!

Date: Thursday 12 March

Session times: 09:55-10:45 or 11:15-12:10

Suitable for Years 11 and 12

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Dr Haotian Gu explores the diverse paths available to healthcare professionals, provide an overview of clinical research-what it entails and how it’s conducted and share some insights into heart health, including highlights from his recent research findings.

Dr Gu is an NIHR ACAF Fellow and Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, and an Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist in Cardiac Imaging at St Thomas’ Hospital. He holds degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Biomedical Engineering, Medical Ultrasound, Health Economics, and a PhD in Cardiovascular Science.

Date: Thursday 12 March

Session time: 11:15-12:05

Suitable for Years 11 and 12, particularly students interested in studying Medicine.

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This talk unpacks the legal and moral dilemmas at the heart of our automated future.

Date: Thursday 12 March

Session time: 12:10-13:00

Suitable for Year 12

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Topology is a fascinating field of study that explores the properties of shapes and spaces beyond our three-dimensional world. 

Dr Niki Kalaydzhieva leads this workshop which explores shapes through the lens of topology – understanding the properties that stay the same when we allow only certain transformations. We will do this through hands-on cutting and glueing, reasoning about the phenomena we encounter, and later representing higher dimensional surfaces on paper.

Date: Thursday 12 March

Session time: 14:25-15:15

Suitable for Years 7-9

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This is a discussion based session for those interested in the politics and ethics of science. Professor Stilgoe will link this to courses available in UCL’s department for Science and Technology Studies and his work on the governance of emerging technologies.

Date: Thursday 12 March

Session time: 16:30

Suitable for Year 12

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This interactive food science workshop explores how cooking links to core scientific principles. Through demonstrations and simple experiments, students will explore the chemistry and physics behind every day cooking processes to deepen their scientific understanding.

Date: Friday 13 March

Session time: 09:00-09:50 or 09:55-10:50

Suitable for Year 8

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James Rudd-Jones will guide you through Machine Learning (ML): A branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers learn from data instead of being given step‑by‑step instructions. By spotting patterns in information, machines can make predictions or decisions — like recognising handwriting, suggesting movies, or even helping doctors detect illnesses. The more data they see, the better they get at improving their performance over time.

How do machines learn to make predictions, plan their actions, and respond to a world that is constantly changing? In this session, we will explore the use of Machine Learning for sequential decision making. Through group discussion, and a hands-on simulation, we will develop and test hypotheses to build a deeper understanding of the dynamics and behaviours of such systems.

James is an Old Sennockian and a current PhD student at University College London studying Machine Learning.

Date: Friday 13 March

Session time: 12:10-13:00 or 13:30-14:25

Suitable for Years 11-13

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