On 12th July we established the first Ogden Primary Partnership in South Yorkshire. This is a group of eight Sheffield primary schools working with Sheffield Hallam University with the aim to raise the profile of science in schools and enhance teachers’ confidence in the planning, delivery and assessment of primary science through focused CPD to increase pupils' science capital.

We held our first Children's Science Ambassador Conference at Sheffield Hallam University. The morning session was led by our science ambassadors, teams of four children from either KS1 or KS2, who have received training as science communicators. The programme included science ambassador presentations 'Our work in school this year', Science Busking – attended by academic researchers at Sheffield Hallam University, who were introduced to the experiments that the Ogden Ambassadors have been carrying out in their schools and science investigation with Dr Liz Allen in the University's new STEM lab. The Ogden Ambassadors were given a guided tour of Sheffield Hallam University’s new STEM lab and ambassadors and their teachers then carried out some science investigations learning about the structure of DNA, and how to extract and measure the yield of strawberry DNA. The DNA extraction experiments were very successful and the ambassadors left with materials and resources to tell their classmates all about DNA and how to extract DNA from fruit.