British Science Week

Resource type: Event

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Region(s): All of UK

British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place every year in March. British Science Week 2025 will take place between 7th – 16th March. The theme for 2025 is Change and Adapt.

At the heart of British Science Week is a programme of events organised by schools, researchers, universities and companies that take place across the whole of the UK. The British Science Week website also hosts a number of other resources that can be used in schools.

Resources for 2025 will include:

Resource packs for teachers. You can download the British Science Week 2025 taster pack from October 2024 for ideas and activities to run in the classroom all through the year. The main British Science Week 2025 activity packs will be available in January 2025 on their website, and available for EYFS, primary and secondary teachers and students.
A poster competition linked to the year’s theme of ‘Change and Adapt’.

Cost: Access to all the online resources is free. Events may incur a fee.

About the British Science Association: The British Science Association is a charity whose mission is to promote diversity and inclusion in science, increasing the number of people who are actively engaged in science in order to improve our ability to tackle the challenges of the future.

Further resources:

Explore the selection of STEM films and videos for primary and secondary schools from BBC Teach.
Topical Talk provides free resources to encourage discussions about the key issues facing our world today, including many science-based topics such as climate change, Artificial Intelligence, animal sentience, space tourism and more. Suitable for pupils aged 10+
Science magazines such as Whizz Pop Bang!, The Week Junior Science and Nature, Britannica Magazine and National Geographic Kids are great additions to the school library.
Good sources of recommendations for books that cover STEM subjects are Books for Topics and LoveReading4Kids.
The Gadgeteers Book Collection from the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge is a useful source of accessible reads for primary pupils.
Ensure that the achievements of women scientists and engineers are represented in your library with this list of 30 books celebrating Women In Science from LoveReading4Kids.
The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize celebrates high quality, accessible STEM books for under-14 year-olds. The shortlist is always a useful source of recommended titles for the school or class library and the winner is chosen by panels of young judges around the country. Find out more about one teacher’s experience of running a young judges panel and the benefits of getting involved in our blog.
Check out the free learning resources available to accompany computer science adventure story Agent Asha: Mission Shark Bytes. There is also a blog with a list of story-led books that introduce STEM and coding for primary-aged children.
Find out more about teaching primary Science Through Story with award-winning primary science teacher and author Jules Pottle.
The Primary Science Teaching Trust has a wealth of free teaching resources for primary schools. Check out the Pictures for Talk booklet that provides some intriguing pictures and accompanying questions to encourage children to ‘talk like a scientist’.
The National Literacy Trust’s Literacy for Learning CPD programme for secondary schools includes a Developing Literacy in Science course. The next course will take place in the summer term 2024.