We have completed an application to The Ogden Trust for an established collaboration partnership where as a Trust we can set our own objectives and priorities to improve the physics teaching and learning. It will mean that we will receive support from an Ogden regional representative and a physics lead adviser who will have specialist knowledge and experience in priority areas. 

Each established collaboration partnership can apply for up to £2,000 per academic year for the first three years and £1,000 in the fourth year for activities to enhance the teaching and learning of physics. In the fifth year, partnerships continue to access support and coaching, including signposting to alternative bursaries, with a final report at the end of the year to demonstrate sustainability.

In addition to this, The Ogden Trust provides annual Phizzi CPD for primary schools registered in a partnership, to a value of £250 per school for four years. Phizzi Forward supports the use of Phizzi CPD resources and curriculum mapping in a partnership’s fifth year. Secondary schools will receive KS3 CPD in the first year of a partnership. We are currently piloting support networks and CPD for secondary technicians and primary teaching assistants.

Schools will receive a Phizzi science kit (worth around £400 per school) each year for the specified unit of physics and CPD will be available for the subject leads and any teaching staff who will be teaching that unit of physics.

Written by Sam Norfolk, Science Lead