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Great Science Share for Schools
17th June 2025
An annual campaign spotlighting young people’s scientific questions,
culminating in a celebratory day in June
#GSSfS
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Great Science Share for Schools
17th June 2025
An annual campaign spotlighting young people’s scientific questions,
culminating in a celebratory day in June
#GSSfS
A decade of difference for GSSfS!
Another year to celebrate young people asking, investigating and sharing science with new audiences. As GSSfS turns 10, the focus is on continuing to inspire teachers and educators across the UK and beyond – improving awareness, confidence and opportunities for practical science.
Bring your classrooms alive by joining the GSSfS global community this year.
“A decade of positive change”
Continued Patronage of the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO in 2025
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Continued Patronage of the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO in 2025 〰️
GSSfS has been awarded UNESCO patronage for a second consecutive year. The endorsement reinforces the programme’s significant role in inspiring scientific curiosity, inquiry, and global citizenship among young people and underscores its profound alignment with UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) values through inclusive and equitable quality science education and promotion of sustainable lifestyles.
“Securing UNESCO’s patronage for the second year is a testament to the way in which so many people support GSSfS with the intention to include as many young people and teachers in asking, investigating and sharing scientific questions. We are proud to support a decade of positive change and promote key themes on global sustainability too.”
Professor Lynne Bianchi, GSSfS campaign Director
See GSSfS in action and learn about how itmakes a difference to pupils’ science learning.
Science is for everyone and touches everything.
It’s time to explore cross-curricular, cross-institutional and international links. Reaching out is an ideal way to show how science doesn’t stand alone in learning, and the way we think scientifically connects to our ideas and success in all areas of our lives.
Connecting to the Global Sustainability Goals will also be a key feature of this year’s campaign. Developing science citizens of the future will weave through the enquiry and enrichment activities coming your way in 2025.
Save the date: the great share date is 17th June 2025! Share on or around this date!
What’s a Great Science Share?
A time when you give more time and opportunity for pupils to ask, investigate and share scientific questions.
Involve pupils in practical investigations during a series of science lessons, a special science day or week, attending an event inside or outdoors where lots of practical science is happening. It’s really your choice.
The unique feature of Great Science Shares is the way that pupils are the science communicators. This is their time to share their science – it's your time to notice their confidence, creativity and capability!
What resources are here for you and your school?
Great Guided Enquiries Annual bespoke resources written for 5-7, 7-11 and 11-14 year olds on real-world topics. Full lesson plans and resources linked to the curriculum and the global sustainability goals.
Great Enrichment Activities Extra-curricular activities to inspire learning beyond the classroom and into the community. Brought to you in collaboration with creative STEM partners.
Great Science Toolkit A unique series of frameworks, prompts, tactics and support to improve the way pupils work scientifically with increasing independence.
Careers Chats Connections with professional scientists and engineers, enabling them to share their practice and challenge stereotypes.
Great Science Share Socials The way we share learning with each other. Connect @GreatSciShare on X and Instagram, Great Science Share for Schools on Facebook and LinkedIn.
REGISTER on the website for unique opportunities coming in 2025
Share News and Share Voice
This year’s campaign will give further opportunities for teachers to share their opinions and pupils’ learning with the wider GSSfS community. The 2025 enquiries are in development! We’re busy bringing the best of GSSfS to you, supporting pupils to ask, investigate and share scientific questions. The Share Your Voice bursaries will soon launch for you to put them into action and tell us what you think. Register for the campaign and tick yes to the newsletters to receive detailed information when the scheme launches.
Getting involved is as easy as…
1. Get registered
Register to explore the website.
Save the date: 17th June 2025. As it’s an inclusive campaign, if this date doesn’t suit you then find one close to it that does!
Watch this introductory video to learn more about what it’s like.
Follow social media sharing. Get the campaign handles here.
2. Get informed
Use the Great Science Skills Starters to upskill teachers and pupils to ask-investigate and share scientific questions
Be inspired by Great Science Enquiries & Ideas to inspire your pupils to start asking-investigating-sharing!
Use science days or special weeks to involve pupils starting to ask-investigate-share. See how the GSSfS and BSW themes and calendars align here.
3. Get sharing
Design your science event or day and invite your school community, special guests, local press and secondary schools to listen and talk to the pupils about their questions.
Share a good news story in a blog we’ll support you with!
Read more or ask for advice from greatscishare@manchester.ac.uk
Publications to inspire question asking from the team
Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends.
The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'
By Professor Lynne Bianchi
QuBuild book brings a new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking. This is an essential skill when children are involved in finding out about the world around them through science enquiry.
Challenging the assumption that because children ask lots of questions in science, this automatically leads to meaningful learning of the enquiry curriculum, QuBuild is important for all children developing as scientific thinkers. It outlines an approach to explicitly plan for, practice and develop the craft of scientific question-asking.
By Professor Lynne Bianchi & Tina Whittaker
Izzy Jones’s Quantum World links to the 2024 Guided Enquiry. Written by a pair of award-winning primary science teachers, this book tells the tale of Izzy Jones as she tries to find her place in the world. She has to work through her anxieties and figure out what she can, and can't, control in her life.
Reading the book will give you an insight into Izzy's inner world at the same time as exemplifying the concept of variables in science. It also provides and introduction to the world of quantum computers.
Access the Guided Enquiry here
By Jules Pottle & Rufus Cooper
Doffa’s Reindeer – a story about air pollution inspires pupils to ask questions about the impact of climate change.
‘Doffa’s Reindeer’ is the story of a family in the frozen north. Doffa is a reindeer herder who lives within the arctic circle, where the land is covered in snow all winter long. Food is hard to find but the reindeer manage well enough on the lichens which lie below the blanket of snow. As always, the passing of time brings changes: Doffa grows old and his granddaughter, Ibba, comes to care for him. The town is changing too and Ibba fears their traditional way of life might not survive…
Access the Guided Enquiry here
By Jules Pottle & Rufus Cooper