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Fantastic facilities
The brand-new Centre in Durham has fantastic facilities – from the café area where you can sit and muse seated below ‘Imagining Aurora’, to the science lab and training rooms. Every room has an interactive white board and is wireless enabled – you can video-conference too.
You can have a look around 24/7 via our virtual tour
Click here to take a virtual tour of the centre
Map to the centre (Acrobat PDF)
Map to the centre (jpeg)
Professional development programme
Whether you work in the smallest first school or the largest FE College, we have an extensive professional development programme for teachers, technicians and teaching assistants from primary through to post-16. Courses run at venues from Alnwick to Middlesbrough and can be brought directly into your school through our bespoke professional development service!
Supporting science
Our free Kit Club loans out equipment and resources – each kit comes with a complete set of teacher’s notes and, where appropriate, sufficient equipment for all of the class.
  Booking & Further Info
 
Artist in Residence
Alec has now completed his two year residency at Science Learning Centre North East. Thought-Cloud jotter was published in 2006. A free web-book, The Book of Thought-Clouds, is also available. Mesostic Laboratorium, an anthology of mesostic poems composed on the names of scientists, was published in 2007, accompanied by a free web-book, and an animation. Tom Shakespeare and Ira Lightman collaborated with Alec and pupils from six regional schools.
Mesostic Web Book
A series of features for the pathway between the Centre and Framwellgate School can now be viewed on-line. These include Thought-Cloud Seats around an oak platform (made with Dan Civico); a small orchard of apple trees grafted from the original Sir Isaac Newton apple tree, and an avenue of native tree species. The planting scheme was made in collaboration with poet-gardener Gerry Loose. Poems selected from Mesostic Laboratorium appear on posts along the avenue (lettered by Laurie Clark) and as signs inside the centre.
Two other science and technology related projects, Floating Island Garden, and w/m (windmill turbines) also feature on Alec’s website, www.alecfinlay.com
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Bill Bryson supports North East Climate Change Schools Project (date posted: Thu 26, June)
Dr. Bill Bryson, Chancellor of Durham University, visited Science Learning Centre North East on 23rd June in order to obtain a copy of the recently published book Climate Change Schools Project, to which he contributed a spirited foreword, as well as to learn more about the innovative new schools project bearing the same name.
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Fantastic free course - RCUK Bringing Cutting Edge Science into the Classroom: Climate Change (date posted: Wed 18, June)
This fantastic free course, with supply cover reimbursed provides an opportunity to engage with contemporary science and its practitioners.
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Visitors from Jordan (date posted: Tue 17, June)
Science Learning Centre North East welcomed the Director of Curriculum and Head of Scientific Subjects from the Jordanian Ministry of Education for a week-long study visit.
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SCIENTIFIC EXPERT HELPS BEACON HILL PUPILS LEARN TO LOVE SCIENCE (date posted: Wed 11, June)
Wallsend’s Beacon Hill School pupils are going to learn about science with a ‘wow’ factor thanks to the start of a unique partnership between Newcastle-based scientist Sarah McLusky and the school.
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NEWCASTLE 15 YEAR OLD STARTS SCHOOL ECO CLUB (date posted: Tue 10, June)
Fifteen year old Kate O’Brien from Sacred Heart RC High School in Newcastle is an ambitious eco-warrior who has started a school club to encourage her fellow pupils to help combat climate change with practical ideas.
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