The Ogden Trust Schools Science Partnerships

In 2005 The Ogden Trust launched its first official Schools Science Partnership between Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, Wakefield Girls’ High School, Carleton High School, Pontefract and The King’s School, Pontefract in conjunction with New College, Pontefract and Leeds University.  This has provided a forum for the schools to collaborate to provide activities for their pupils across all year groups and abilities and to share ideas between staff in an atmosphere of friendly co-operation.
 
The main focus of these partnerships is:
  1. joint science activities with pupils from both the state and independent schools, and the university
  2. science outreach projects with feeder primary schools
  3. Ogden sponsored Science Teaching Fellows (normally PhD students) who are seconded to local state secondary schools to deliver science enrichment, with the aim of encouraging them to consider school teaching
  4. exchange of good practice between teachers in different schools and particularly across the state and independent sectors
  5. to produce candidates for Ogden science scholarships at sixth form and at university level, now focused on physics
The second of these partnerships was launched in 2006 between the Bury Grammar Schools (Boys and Girls) and four state schools in Bury (The Derby High School, Woodhey High School, Castlebrook High School and Holy Cross Sixth Form College), supported by the University of Manchester Faculty of Science and Engineering.  Both the Bury Schools Science Partnership and the Wakefield/Pontefract Schools Science Partnership have been successful in securing major grants from the ISSP Fund (Independent and State Schools Partnership Fund).
 
The following Ogden School and University Science Partnerships have now been established:
 
Wakefield and Pontefract schools/University of Leeds (2005)
Bury schools/University of Manchester (2006) 
Preston schools/University of Central Lancashire (2006)
Bolton schools/University of Bolton (2007)
Durham schools/University of Durham (2003, relaunched 2008)
Coventry schools/University of Warwick (2010)
Liverpool schools/University of Liverpool (2006)
Oxford schools/University of Oxford (2007)
Bristol schools/University of Bristol  (2010)
Birmingham schools/University of Birmingham (2010)
West Midlands schools/University of Aston (2009 - Physics Factory)
Nottingham schools/University of Nottingham Trent (2008)
Southampton schools/University of Southampton (2011)
Skipton, Keighley and South Craven schools/University of Bradford (2009)
Redditch and Alcester schools/University tba (2009)
Wirral schools/University of Liverpool/Chester (2009)
Cumbria schools/University of Lancaster (2009)
Burnley schools/University of Central Lancashire (2010)
Manchester schools/University of Salford (2010)
South London schools/Imperial College (2009 - Physics Factory)
Norwich schools/University of East Anglia (2011)