The Science Hub - East Herts, Essex, Beds & Milton Keynes


The Science Hub - East Herts, Essex, Beds & MK provides quality, subject-specific Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for primary and secondary schools across West Essex. Currently, we cover the Saffron Teaching School Hub areas of Chelmsford, Epping Forest and Harlow.

We support school leads, teachers and technicians to develop high-quality science and STEM provision for all young people in schools and colleges locally. They offer courses through the academic year, and can also help with bespoke training solutions and one-to-one support.

Book on our courses

To book a place on our courses, conferences and networks, please visit and follow our EventBrite page or email us at sciencehub@hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk.

Find out more about us


The Science Hub programmes & events

In addition to our CPD programme, we offer bespoke Science CPD for departmental meetings, joint inset and inset days. Our expert school to school support consultancy offer includes departmental reviews, coaching, mentoring, curriculum reviews and exam analysis.

Science CPD Programmes - Primary and Secondary

Click on the links below for our Primary and Secondary Science CPD programmes:

See below for details of our current packages, upcoming CPD courses and events.


Primary Science CPD Staff Meetings - Science CPD for the whole staff

As well as our primary CPD courses, we offer primary staff meetings. There are three options that schools can choose from: 

  • Working Scientifically
  • Thinking, Doing, Talking Science
  • Essential Formative Assessment in Science

Expand the headings below to find out more about each option.

Primary Science CPD staff meetings - options

Our popular whole staff CPD can be arranged as twilight meetings or during a scheduled inset day. We are also happy for you to organise these as joint inset with multiple schools.

We also offer curriculum support and consultancy.

To enquire and to book one of our staff meetings please contact sciencehub@hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk.


Science Technician subscription package 2024-25

Our extremely popular Science Technician annual subscription for schools is excellent value for money for Science departments to provide quality CPD and networking opportunities for their technicians throughout the year.

What's included?

Online only package - £125:

  • Termly network meetings
  • Online Tech Fest 2-5 December 2024
  • Online course: Technicians supporting Chemistry
  • Online course: Technicians supporting Biology
  • Online course: Technicians supporting Physics

Full package - £250:

  • Full online package, plus:
  • Tech Fest Essex
  • Tech Fest Herts
  • Tech Fest Beds
  • 1 other face to face course of your choice
  • 20% discount on all other courses

For full details of our Science Technician Annual Subscription package for 2024-25, download the flyer here.

To book this package, contact us at sciencehub@hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk.


'New to Teaching' Series 2024-25

  • Various dates from September 2024 - July 2025
  • Sign up here
  • Download the flyer here

Environmental Science Network package 2024-25

  • Various dates from September 2024 - July 2025
  • Sign up here
  • Download the flyer here

 


Heads of Science Networking Breakfast

Date: 24 September 2024, 09:00-10:30

Venue: Nobel School, 40 Mossbury Way, Stevenage SG2 0HS

Booking link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0DWyEPxVnZ6ZNtjmsfCWtOiVxRGmQ10RQYOeCyYir1RIzYQ/viewform

Event flyer: Heads of Science Networking Breakfast