Primary workshops

This hands-on workshop introduces primary-aged students to coding and robotics through the playful world of LEGO Education’s Spike Essentials kits. It’s designed with beginners in mind—no prior experience required—just a bit of curiosity and a willingness to tinker.
 

Over the course of the session, learners will take on two creative, health-focused projects that bring coding to life in ways that feel both fun and surprisingly meaningful.

Throughout both builds, students will use icon block-based coding to control lights, motors, and sensors. They'll experiment, make mistakes, solve problems—and probably laugh a fair bit along the way. It’s not about getting everything right the first time, but about learning how to think through a challenge, and seeing what happens when they do.

The workshop supports key elements of the UK national curriculum for computing at Key Stage 2; including understanding algorithms, creating and debugging simple programs, and using logical reasoning, as well as developing life skills such as resilience, problem solving and collaborative thinking.

From “chew to poo”, this workshop focuses on our digestive system and the different food groups. Students will investigate how to fully digest a banana sandwich, following its passage through the mouth, oesophagus, stomach and intestines. Students will then conduct chemical tests on different food groups, and learn what a healthy, balanced diet looks like.

This workshop introduces students to the chemistry in their bathroom cupboards and the scientific process that goes into formulating a new product. Students will explore chemical and physical changes, consider the idea of ratios when it’s comes to measuring and weighing, understand the importance of accuracy and precision and the difference between a chemical reaction vs simple changes of states, through making their own bath and lip products.

This workshop supports the curriculum by allowing observations that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision and explaining that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible.

Baylab has developed a new and exciting workshop focused on the cardiovascular system. The workshop will look at the composition of blood, the circulatory system, structure and function of the heart as well as looking at heart disease, heart health and lifestyle.

The students will have a go at making their own fake blood, using microscopes to look at blood smears, modelling the circulatory system as well as getting hands on with anatomy models, blood vessels and much more.

By the end of the workshop, students will have a good understanding of the core structures and function of the heart and cardiovascular system, heart diseases and their impact, and ways to look after their own hearts though healthier lifestyle choices.

This workshop gives students the chance to think about what makes human beings unique. They learn more about DNA, what it is and where it is found, and how the structure makes each person different, exploring mutations and their effects on displayed characteristics.  It links to the real world in many ways, such as studying the genetic causes of disease, development of diagnostics and drugs, and also in forensic science and sequencing genomes.

Here, students will extract their own DNA from their cheek cells and walk away with a small piece of in a necklace or keychain.