Latest News
WELCOME!
On the 18th November 2011 the PSQM team formally congratulated all 191 schools that successfully completed the PSQM award from our 2010 cohort. By producing a notice that appeared in the TES magazine
A total of 150 subject leaders started working towards their PSQM awards last summer term and a further 246 have started this term. Remember that it is important to complete your self assessment and upload your action plan as soon as possible after your first training day.
Although we have two cohorts taking part in PSQM this year, we have decided to hold one set of award events for all PSQM awardees in 2012, The events will be held in October 2012 at venues around the country. This means that members of the Spring cohort will have to wait a few months to receive their framed awards, but we will send logos and PDFs of the certificates to use as soon as possible after submission and review. To view images of last years events click here.
Updated versions of the PSQM calendar can be found here.
NEW REGISTRATIONS FOR 2012
Registration to take part in PSQM beginning September 2011 is now closed. Please register your interest via this web site to begin in Spring 2012 and we will contact you. The cost of PSQM is £595. This includes membership of the Association for Science Education.
DELAY TO NEW CURRICULUM
It was announced on 20th Dec 2011 that the new curriculum for all subjects including science will now not be introduced until 2014. For more information see PSQM: News
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to Newton Farm School in Harrow, PSQM gold awardee 2011 and featured in the Times on 16th Dec 2011 as one of the top performing primary schools in England.
Click here to read the article about good practice in science and PSQM which featured in last month’s Teach Primary magazine.
Latest Events
New telephone number
To contact the PSQM team please call 01992 514787
Email Address: s.j.taylor@herts.ac.uk
New Hub Leaders
The PSQM team welcome applications from prospective hub leaders. Please click here for the application form and further information.
New Hub Leaders training day 2
We are currently arranging second training days for new hub leaders. We will contact all hub leaders who need to attend to let them know to book places.
Win £100 of science equipment and resources
During the spring term CIEC Promoting science will have a couple of exciting new resources for you to trial.
Space - Is there anybody out there? is the quest to discover more about our solar system by gathering potential evidence of life on the planet Mars, and exploring the geographical surface of the planet looking for landing sites. This offers activities for upper key stage 2, plus some transition activities for year 7 pupils. This pilot will take place in the first half of the spring term.
The second resource focuses on focuses on ‘the science of healthy skin’ making sun creams, soaps, bath foams and more, via classroom investigations supported by an interactive website.
If you would like to take part in this pilot please contact us on ciec@york.ac.uk stating which resource you are interested in trialling and an email address which can be used for sending out the resource information.
We look forward to hearing from you!
click here to view detailed information about the space resource.
click here to view detailed information about the healthy skin resource
Free Data Logging Workshops from Data Harvest
Data Harvest would like to support schools working for the PSQM. They can offer:
- A data logging overview to the hub leaders
- Data logging training workshops to groups of schools in each hub.
Iain Davison is the contact for the South-West and West Midlands: iain.davison@data.harvest.co.uk
Lee Grahame is the contact for the South-East and East Anglia : lee.grahame@data-harvest.co.uk
Barbara Higginbotham is the contact for the North: barbara.higginbotham@data-harvest.co.uk
Please contact your local contact to arrange a workshop for your hub.
PSQM Login
In order to login and access the e-portal, you will need to be an ASE individual or school member and have paid the PSQM application fee. A password will be sent to you subsequently.
Please note that your PSQM login is your ASE membership number which is usually prefixed with a capital M or S and then has between 4 and 6 numbers (no letters are used)
Your PSQM password is automatically generated and consists of a series of numbers and upper/lower case letters. If you are not sure whether you have been given a letter or a number you can check by using Tahoma font.
