21 Jan 2025 | views: 404 | Event
Saturday 15 March 2025, 9am-4pm
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham, ME13 7BQ
We are delighted to announce that the Kent Festival of Physics is back for its seventh year being delivered in collaboration between The STEM Hub and Physics Partners, with special thanks to the Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust for their generous funding, making this day of physics possible.
As in previous years, the event will be supported by Christina Astin and James Bennett along with host venue Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School.
Everyone is warmly invited to this full day of training and workshops for all physics teachers, specialists, non-specialists, ECTs, trainees, and technicians across the South East and beyond.
Throughout the day there will be sessions covering key physics topics for KS3, KS4, and KS5, offering hands-on practical activities and ideas to make your teaching even more engaging. All sessions will be delivered by expert physics teacher trainers.
This unique event is also an excellent opportunity to network with colleagues from across the region and explore locally available resources. Whilst the programme is primarily tailored for teachers, technicians are more than welcome to attend and may benefit from the more practical workshops.
Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Simon Poliakoff
Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff FREng FRS will talk about his experience of using YouTube videos to bring science to a wider audience to help inspire a new generation of scientists. Physics teacher Simon Poliakoff (Sir Martyn’s son) will share a variety of practical strategies to effectively use videos to support physics teaching in schools and colleges including using videos to reduce cognitive load. The father and son pair first delivered this talk at the 2025 ASE conference.
You can expect a full day of physics workshops featuring a keynote speaker, TeachMeet, TechMeet exhibition, free raffle, and complimentary lunch and refreshments.
The workshops include:
Christina Astin has organised and supported the event since its inception. She highlighted: “Helping to organise this event for physics teachers in Kent is one of the highlights of my calendar! The buzz of 120 teachers, technicians, trainees, exhibitors and teacher-trainers chatting about physics over a scrumptious lunch means that all the hard work invested is totally worth it. We know it builds teaching confidence, subject knowledge and local networks and we’re looking forward to our SEVENTH year!”
Sally Smith CEO of Physics Partners commented: “I’m delighted that Physics Partners are supporting this year’s Festival of Physics, made possible through the generous funding of The Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust. These events are always fantastic, and whether this is your first time attending or your seventh, I look forward to welcoming you for a fun-filled and inspiring day of Physics”
We hope you can join us for this amazing day of physics.
Cost: £10 includes a full day of physics including the exhibition, raffle, certificate and complimentary refreshments and lunch.
The booking link below will take you to Canterbury Christ Church University's payment gateway (shop.canterbury.ac.uk) where you can pay online and book your place.
The day has been made possible to the thanks of the following supporters including: Physics Partners, Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, the amazing facilitators, The STEM Hub and Canterbury Christ Church University.