Engaging families and young people with physics beyond the classroom

Description

Following a successful session at this year's Winchester College Festival of Physics, we have invited Jess Hamer to share this topic to a wider audience with this special online event.

This session will explore how teachers and other school staff can engage with families and young people outside of the classroom. We will focus on how schools can support families to see physics as something that is possible for everyone to do. There will be tips on how best to engage parents and carers when talking about jobs that use physics skills and how extracurricular science and physics clubs can be made more inclusive.

Jessica is the Influencing and Engagement Manager for the South of England region at the Institute of Physics. She is a former teacher and teacher trainer and has worked on numerous projects that explore the barriers young people face when it comes to physics education. She has a particular interest in the role parents and carers have in the subject choices young people make. She is also currently doing research on inclusion in computing education at King’s College London, as part of the SCARI Computing project.