We were thrilled to welcome a representative from a health and safety body to ensure we keep providing experiments that are fun in school science lessons
At Darwin Biological we try to be as innovative as possible.
As a biological specimens supplier, we want to ensure we are pivotal in ensuring science lessons for pupils across the UK and Ireland are fun and engaging.
So this month we were delighted to meet with leading industry health and safety body CLEAPSS, an organisation which provides support in science and technology for schools.
We invited Ai-Linh, biology advisor at CLEAPSS,to our base in Shropshire to make sure we continue to be responsive to modern educational needs. And it was an exciting session together!
Our Founder and Managing Director Meg Bilson said: “We spent a few hours together conducting experiments that we recommend to school science technicians and even though it was originally only a session for our lab staff, all our staff ended up getting involved because it was so much fun.
“It was great to learn new techniques and for everyone in our team to have experience with the practicals too, as we will now be better equipped to answer questions and provide advice to those we supply in the future.
“Ai-Linh discussed science education and the issues schools have when they ring the industry body helpline, which takes thousands of calls each year. We believe the values of Darwin Biological align very closely with those of CLEAPSS as both work towards teaching technicians and staff how to carry out exciting experiments safely rather than avoid them, in a bid to make education engaging for students and bring biology lessons to life.
“We got a real insight into the trends in classrooms and how innovative we can be as a company. It was a real coup to have Ai-Linh at our base as she usually holds workshops for science technicians and teachers.”
Our staff completed practicals with fungi and algae balls as well as a new product we supply called slime mould, which is featured in the booklet of expert-led practicals we sent out to 4,500 secondary schools across England, Scotland and Wales in November.
The feedback to our booklet has been extremely positive, with many technicians at educational institutions describing it as helping to make their job ‘interesting and easier’.
CLEAPSS was set up in 1963 and offers help from nursery education through to A-level studies or equivalent.
98% of all secondary schools in the UK and Northern Ireland are signed up members to the organisation.
