"I would urge teachers
to see their shows" Edinburgh Festivals Magazine We provide shows about science, performed in your venue, that are exciting, professional and great value for money. Whatever your reason for booking, whatever the age group of your audience, we are so confident you will love our shows that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. What do we provide? Our science shows have been compared to the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, or Johnny Ball programmes from the 1970's. You provide the venue and we provide a show, themed around science, that is entertaining and educational in equal measure. We perform shows about subjects that will capture your students' imagination. We then explore those subjects using exciting demonstrations, multimedia and lots of volunteer help. And everything we do complements and reinforces the science teaching you are already doing at school. We perform in theatres, lecture halls, dinner halls, gyms or classrooms. We alter the content of the shows for different age groups throughout the day. Our performances showcase the best that science has to offer. Why do hundreds of schools and festivals choose Science Shows for Schools? The highest quality We pride ourselves on the consistent quality of our shows. We are experienced teachers with additional performing skills, not students or actors. You can be assured that the performance you see will be of the highest standard- every show we perform is an advert for our next booking. Click on this link to read a selection of our customer reviews and click here to see us in action. Easy for you to arrange We bring our award-winning shows to you, wherever you are in the UK. Choose us to visit your school and, compared to visiting a science centre, you will have no buses to arrange, no permission slips to collect, no negotiations with other teachers or departments to let children out of school and no time in the school day wasted to traveling. Click on this link to make a booking. Excellent value for money Book us to visit your school and for less than half the cost of a typical visit to a science centre three times as many of your students will witness the best that science has to offer. Click on this link for our prices. Click on this link to learn more about our shows.
Who have we worked for? We have performed in hundreds of schools and colleges and visited the most prestigious science festivals in the UK, Ireland and across the world. Our recent credits include BBC One (Bang Goes the Theory roadshow). The Singapore Science Centre and Festival. The Big Bang (the UK's largest science and engineering event for schools), The BT Young Scientist Exhibition (Ireland's largest science and engineering event for schools) and the British Science Association British Science Festival. In 2009 we took a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and received two 4/5 star reviews. We hope you will find all the information you will need by using the links at the top left of this page. To make a booking or for any queries please follow this link otherwise email info@ScienceShowsForSchools.com  ...Latest news... Saturday 10th December 2011  For the second year running The Cheltenham Science Festival has asked Science Shows for Schools to perform as the highlight of their Christmas Lecture series. This year's event was held at Taunton Racecourse and James performed the show The REAL Science of the Circus for children from all over the Gloucestershire. Saturday 3rd December 2011  Science Shows for Schools have just competed their performances at the Abu Dhabi Science Festival. We performed four days of Bending it like Beckham and three days of The REAL Science of the Circus and both shows were well received by both the general public and the local media. Follow this link to VIDEOS where we will post a short piece of news from the festival. Thank you to everyone at ADNEC, at the Abu Dhabi Education Municipality and The Edinburgh Science Festival for all their hard work putting this ground breaking event together. Saturday 1st October 2011  The Shell Education Service and Sphere Science put on family days across Scotland and the UK. Science Shows for Schools are currently in Fraserburgh, north Scotland, and are performing at the Fraserburgh Lighthouse. We have already performed in Methil, Fife and at the Tall Ship, Glasgow for Sphere Science and Shell this summer. Saturday 17th September
2011  James has just completed his first day working in Abu Dhabi with students at the Abu Dhabi Women's College. He was presenting a communication course on behalf of Edinburgh International Science Ventures who are organising the first ever science festival to take place in the UAE. Friday 16th September
2011  It has just been officially announced that the first ever science festival to take part in the United Arab Emirates will take place in Abu Dhabi in November. Science Shows for Schools has been asked to provide two of their shows, The REAL Science of the Circus and Bending it like Beckham, for the main stage. James is particularly excited as it means he will be able to visit the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final race of the 2011 season. Saturday 10th July
2011  The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Every July they hold The Summer Science Exhibition and Science Shows for Schools presented their show The REAL Science of the Circus at the event. Tuesday 15th March
2011  National Science and Engineering
week is more of a month for Science Shows for Schools. This year we
have visited schools in London all the way to Caithness. On our travels
we have covered almost 2000 miles and seen some amazing scenery. We've
passed the highest mountains in all the home countries: Snowdon in Wales
(on a visit to Hereford), Scarfel Pike in the Lake District (as we
traveled from Glasgow to Burnley) and Ben Nevis in Scotland on the way
up to the Moray Science Festival in Elgin. Thanks to all the schools we visited. Now we have a week off and it is well deserved! Tuesday 22st March
2011  The Caithness Science Festival has just ended and Science Shows for Schools were performing their show Galileo's Greatest Mistake to upper primary school children all over Thurso and Wick. We also performed at the opening of the festival and at an open show in the evening for the whole community. This was the third time we've been to Caithness (we've performed Bending it like Beckham and The REAL Science of the Circus before) and we love getting as far north as possible in the UK without getting on a ferry. If you get a chance to visit this amazing part of the world, or if you get invited to their wonderful science festival, we'd highly recommend it. Monday 21st February
2011  Science Shows for Schools has just returned from performing at Engineer's Week 2011 in Ireland. Over the past week we performed a new show called "Engineering the future with Pneumatics" at the Glor Theatre, Ennis; the University of Limerick; the Institute of Technology at Tralee; the University of Cork; and the Institute of Technology in Tipperary. We also appeared on the RTE children's programme Elev8 and performed at the headquarters of Engineer's Ireland who put the week together in partnership with Discover Primary Science. Saturday 4th December
2010  Science Shows for Schools has been asked to perform the Cheltenham Science Festival Christmas lecture for 2010. We have performed at the regular Science Festival on a number of occasions and due to the success of our show: The REAL Science of the Circus the organisers have asked us to perform the show for KS3 audiences for this new event. More information can be found about the Cheltenham Science Festival here. We would recommend visiting the festival not only for the unique combination of schools and adult events, talks and demonstrations, discussions and lectures but also because they have the greatest green room of any festival in the world! Monday 15th November
2010  Irish Science Week has now finished and we would like to thank all of the venues Science Shows for Schools visited for being so friendly and helpful. Libraries in Waterford, Limerick and Cork together with the Science Festivals in Sligo and Limerick saw versions of our show: The REAL Science of the Circus. We are now in Galway for the Galway Science Festival that traditionally follows after science week. Wednesday 20th October
2010  The Dundee Science Festival starts on 1st November and Science Shows for Schools will be bringing Bending it like Beckham to primary schools across the city. Techfest Setpoint in Dundee and Aberdeen do a great job bringing science engagement to budding scientists of all ages in the northern central belt of Scotland. If you are around to visit the Family Day then we can highly recommend it. Unfortunately we won't be there because we will be traveling to Ireland for the start of Irish Science Week. Saturday 25th September
2010 Science
Shows for Schools will be returning to the Emerald Isle this November for Science Week Ireland. We are regular vistors to Ireland and appreciate the hard work done by Cathy and Donna at Discover Primary Science in organising and funding a brilliant festival that sees thousands of children across the whole island. We will be visiting Sligo, Cork and Waterford. And if you are in Galway we will be heading over there for their festival the week after Science week. Science
Shows for Schools has just returned from Birmingham where we performed two of our shows at the British Science Association festival 2010. Over 1400 children and teachers saw our shows and the feedback we received, from audience members and ThinkTank who organised the Young Peoples Programme, was excellent. Every one of our sessions was full to capacity. This was the fourth time we have performed at the UK's premier science festival are really pleased to continue our support of the British Science Association. Science Shows for Schools had a great time in Singapore where they headlined at the Singapore Science Festival. Not only did they perform their show Bending it like Beckham at the Singapore Science Centre, they also performed to thousands in the Marina Square Mall and at a selection of schools around the country. Click here to see some of the pictures we took whilst out in this amazing part of the world and what 900 children look like from the stage! Friday 23rd July 2010  Science Shows for Schools is just back from Newcastle for the British Interactive Group (BIG) Big Event. This is the largest meeting of professional and amateur science presenters, science centre and festival organisers and prop builders in the UK. We ran a session on Wednesday where we performed Bending it like Beckham. Delegates at the conference gave us some wonderful feedback from the show. It was great to meet you all and thanks for your kind comments: Fantastic show. Educational and entertaining. Thank you. Great structure- I learnt a lot Good relevant science linked to clear and understandable real life contexts I liked the originality and the variety of the demonstrations Great engaging show, good content To read all the comments click here. Monday 5th July
2010  The Bang Goes the Theory roadshow tour continues. Last week were were performing the shows at the Purcell Room in London's Southbank Centre as part of the Royal Society 350th Anniversary Celebrations. Here is a typical review of one of the shows (this refers to the show we have written and perform with Dallas Campbell, there are two others for the other two presenters, Jem Stansfield and Liz Bonnin). From exploding potato-firing sniper weapons to death defying feats of underwater swimming, the show was packed with fun and excitement for all the family. The interactive performance blended live experiments with scientific facts, video clips and historical figures. To read the whole review click here. Science Shows for Schools has
been working with the Shell Education Service to provide shows for their two Scottish family days. We performed Galileo's Greatest Mistake in St Colm, Aberdour and Fairy Liquid and the Burst Bubble at the Tall Ship in Glasgow. A picture of James performing with two young scientists was chosen to be the BBC Scotland Picture of the Day for 24th May. Click here to see the picture. Wednesday 21st April
2010  Science Shows for Schools has successfully returned from Edinburgh and will soon be traveling to Nottingham on the BBC One's Bang goes
the Theory roadshow tour. We perform three different and rotating half-hour long shows specially written for BBC learning. We also host the "meet the presenters" event at the end of the day. You can see us throughout the summer at various venues across the UK. Click here to go to the tour website to see where you can catch us. Thursday 15th April
2010  It has just been confirmed that Science Shows for Schools will be visiting Singapore to perform at the Singapore Youth Science festival, at the Science Centre Singapore and also in schools in the country. Tuesday 13th April 2010  Thanks for everyone who came to the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Over three days on the mound over 4,500 people saw our shows for the BBC.
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