The Fuchs Foundation

Science is often percieved as a dull subject and hard work. The Fuchs Foundation challenges this perception and aims to recreate in young people the sense of excitement, adventure and thirst for knowledge.
 
No one forgets an inspirational teacher and the Fuchs Foundation believes the key is challenge and experience.  Give young teachers the opportunity to break free from the constraints of their normal safe existence and inspire them through expedition work that tests both their mental, physical and emotional resources which will in turn give them a life changing experience and will inspire their teaching for the rest of their career.
 
The Ogden Trust is helping to support the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956/8, by helping the Fuchs Foundation sponsor four teachers, two men and two women, on an expedition to the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica during November and December 2007.  They are:
 
Philip Avery - KS3 Co-ordinator for Geography at Oxted School, Oxted
Ruth Hollinger, Geography Teacher at Tapton School, Sheffield
Amy Rogers, Science Teacher at Higham Lane School, Nuneaton
Ian Richardson, Head of Biology, Freman College, Buntingford, Herts
 
You can read their reports on

www.fuchsfoundation.org