Can the UK compete in the 21st Century?

Will we have enough talented scientists & engineers?

How might our science curricula ensure this?

A pilot to train and equip science teachers, initially in Scotland and then in , to make classroom science more exciting, relevant and up to date, and attract more S1/S2 and KS3 (12 to 13 year old) pupils to pursue at least one science subject as an option within their curriculum THE OPPORTUNITY

Make both learning and teaching science in the classroom more exciting, up to date and attractive for both teachers and pupils

Increase the numbers of pupils choosing science subjects and make the quality of their education world leading

Improve the prospects for many industries and professions in the UK

THE INNOVATION

This initiative heralds new thinking on how to engage learners and attract them to science before they choose their course options. It links industry, research and education and provides learners with a new dimension for learning about science and how it can be applied.

Focus on Physics and use funding from charities, government & others to introduce topical, optoelectronics-based, classroom activities that make learning about science more stimulating, topical & relevant, both to the pupils’ lives and their curriculum

Pilot an Optoelectronics College (OEC) to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD), kits and support for science Teachers, so that their pupils can participate in 3 sets of stimulating activities that use modern optoelectronics to deliver curriculum outcomes and can understand the science in everyday items like LCDs, LEDs, solar cells & optical fibres.

Pilot this using CPD to train and equip science teachers in 100 Scottish and 330 English schools to introduce these activities as part of their curriculum. Support and embolden them through a college of their peers and use feedback, from them and their pupils, as evidence in assessing the pilot and deciding on any further roll out. FOCUS ON THREE THEMES 1. Solar Cells in Action (SCiA)  Investigate how a solar cell converts energy, what things affect its operation and how it is used, including the generation of “green” electricity from sunlight. Use light to charge a solar buggy, measure its range and compete against your classmates. 2. Colour Vision and Displays (CV&D)  Learn about colour vision and survey public perceptions about this. Explore additive mixing of primary colours and how displays work, such as LCDs for laptops and TV 3. Illumination and Communication (I&C)  Understand how an LED generates light without heat, how it can produce different colours and many of its uses, including future environmentally friendly room lighting. Feel this using a hand generator to power LED & halogen spotlights of comparable light output. Learn how optical fibres work to transmit telephone & internet signals. 4. Vision (V. Optional alternative to CV&D in England only)  Use a video camera, monitor and other equipment to understand the basics of how we see, how glasses work, persistence of vision, colour addition, how an LCD works and what the world looks like with various defects and diseases and how these can affect the lives of millions of people.

MAY 2013: PHASE 1 OF SCOTTISH PILOT COMPLETED

 OEC kits provided to more than a third of all schools, with 101 schools having all 3

 CPD training provided at more than 50 workshops, for over 300 science teachers, who have become Members of the OEC

 Kits accessible to ~24,000 S2 pupils annually and to other more senior pupils

DEC 2013: PHASE 1 OF ENGLISH PILOT ESSENTIALLY COMPLETE  ~360 science teachers, from over 320 schools in England, trained and equipped  More than 220 schools have three kits (SCiA, I&C and either CV&D or V)  Kits accessible to ~55,000 KS3 pupils annually and to other more senior pupils

Both pilots should enhance the future supply of UK students wishing to pursue a career in science, engineering, technology, or medicine

PHASE 2 COMPLETE: THIRD PARTY EVALUATION OF PILOTS

MAY 2014: ASE BECOMES OWNER OF OEC

JULY 2014: ASE STARTS PHASE 3 TO FIND FURTHER SPONSORS DISTRIBUTION OF KITS IN SCOTLAND – DECEMBER 2013

SCHOOLS HAVING ALL 3 KITS

1 Aboyne Academy 35 Forres Academy 68 Monifieth High School 2 Albyn High School 36 Fortrose Academy 69 Montrose Academy 3 Alford Academy 37 Fraserburgh Academy 70 Morrison’s Academy 4 Alness Academy 38 Gairloch High School 71 Nairn Academy 5 Armadale Academy 39 Galashiels Academy 72 Nicolson Institute, Stornoway 6 Arran High School 40 George Watson's College 73 Northfield Academy 7 Baldragon Academy, Dundee 41 Glasgow Gaelic School 74 Oldmachar Academy 8 Banchory Academy 42 Glenwood High School, 75 Park Mains High School 9 Bearsden Academy Glenrothes 76 Perth Academy 10 Beath High School, 9Cowdenbeath 43 Grantown Grammar School 77 Perth Grammar School 11 Berwickshire High School 44 Greenock Academy 78 Perth High School 12 Blairgowrie High School 45 Hermitage Academy, Helensburgh 79 Pitlochry High School 13 Boclair Academy 46 High School of Glasgow 80 Portlethen Academy 14 Breadalbane Academy 47 Hutchesons Grammar School 81 Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen 15 Buckhaven High School 48 Inverkeithing High School 82 Selkirk High School 16 Buckie High 49 Inverness High School 83 Speyside High School, Aberlour 17 Castlebrae Community High School 50 Jordanhill School 84 Springburn Academy 18 Charleston Academy, Inverness 51 Keith Grammar School 85 St Aloysius College, Glasgow 19 Clifton Hall School, Edinburgh 52 Kemnay Academy 86 St Andrews High School, Kirkcaldy 20 Coatbridge High School 53 Kilgraston School 87 St Andrew's High School, Coatbridge 21 Community High School Auchterarder 54 Kilwinning Academy 88 St Columba’s High, Dunfermline 22 Crieff High School 55 Kincorth Academy 89 St John’s Academy, Perth 23 Cumnock Academy 56 Kingussie High School 90 St Leonards School, St Andrews 24 Currie High School, Edinburgh 57 Kinross High School 91 St Margaret’s Academy, Livingston 25 Deans Community High School 58 Lanark Grammar School 92 St Thomas of Aquin’s High School 26 Dingwall Academy 59 Largs Academy 93 Strathaven Academy 27 Dornoch Academy 60 Liberton High School 94 Tain Royal Academy 28 Dunbar Grammar School 61 Linlithgow Academy 95 Thurso High School 29 Dunblane High School 62 Lossiemouth High School 96 Tobermory High School 30 Earlston High School 63 Meldrum Academy 97 Turriff Academy 31 Edinburgh Academy 64 Menzieshill High School 98 Viewforth High School, Kirkcaldy 32 Elgin Academy 65 Millburn Academy, Inverness 99 Wallace Hall Academy 33 Elgin High School 66 Milne's High School, Fochabers 100 Whitburn Academy 34 Ellon Academy 67 Mintlaw Academy 101 Woodfarm High School

SCHOOLS HAVING 2 KITS

1 Anderson High School, Lerwick, 5 Larbert High School 10 Sgoil Lionacleit, Benbecula Shetland 6 Lourdes Secondary 11 Stonelaw High School 2 Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh 7 Maxwelltown High School 3 George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh 8 Preston Lodge High School 4 Holy Cross High School, Hamilton 9 Prestwick Academy

SCHOOLS HAVING 1 KIT

1 Arbroath Academy 27 Inverclyde Academy 2 Arbroath High School 28 Inverness Royal Academy 3 Auchmuty High School, Glenrothes 29 James Gillespie High School 4 Baltasound Junior High School, 30 Jedburgh Grammar School Shetland 31 Kinlochbervie High School 5 Banff Academy 32 Kinlochleven High School 6 Bankhead Academy 33 Lasswade High School 7 Bathgate Academy 34 Lochaber High School 8 Brechin High School 35 Lockerbie Academy 9 Bridge of Don Academy 36 Mackie Academy 10 Camphill School 37 McLaren High School 11 Carnoustie High 38 Peebles High School 12 Carrick Academy 39 Peterhead Academy 13 Craigholme School 40 Plockton High School 14 Craigmont High School, Edinburgh 41 Port Glasgow High School 15 Dalkeith High School 42 Portobello High School 16 Dundee High School 43 Portree High School, Skye 17 Eyemouth High School 44 Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline 18 Firhill High School, Edinburgh 45 Sanquhar Academy 19 Forfar Academy 46 St Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock 20 Glenrothes High School 47 St Maurice's High, Cumbernauld 21 Gordon Schools, Huntly 48 St Paul’s Academy, Dundee 22 Gordonstoun 49 Ullapool High School 23 Graeme High School 50 Waid Academy, Anstruther 24 Harris Academy 51 Websters High School, Kirriemuir 25 Hawick High School 26 Holyrood High School Abbey College, Huntingdon IoP, Cardiff Spalding Grammar School, Spalding Abbey School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch , Ashby de la Zouche Spalding High School Abraham Moss High School, Manchester Jack Hunt School, Peterborough Sponne School, Towcester Accrington Academy, West Accrington John Colet School, Wendover Springwood High School, Kings Lynn Acton High School, Acton John F Kennedy Catholic School, Hemel Hempstead St Albans School, St Albans Adams' Grammar School, Newport John Hampden Grammar School, High Wycombe St Chad’s High School, Runcorn Akeley Wood School, Buckingham John Port School, Etwall St Christopher’s CE High School, Accrington Alperton Community School, Stroud John Spendluffe Technology College, Alford St Cuthbert’s High School, Newcastle Arthur Mellows Village College, Peterborough Judgemeadow Community College, St Edwards School, Poole , Ashby-de-la-Zouch Kenton School, Newcastle St George’s Academy, Sleaford Ashton Community Science College, Preston Kettering Science Academy, Kettering St James’s High School, Bolton Aylesbury High School, Aylesbury King Alfred School, Highbridge St John Fisher Catholic High School, Peterborough Babington College, Leicester King Edward VI Grammar school, Chelmsford St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School, Gravesend , Oadby King Edward VI Academy, Spilsby St Josephs College, Trent Vale , Leicester King Edward VI school, Louth St Josephs RC High School , Harwich Beechen Cliff School, Bath King Edward VII school, Melton Mowbray St Julie’s Catholic High School, Liverpool Belvoir High School, Bottesford King Edward’s High School for Girls, Birmingham St Leonard’s RC School, Durham, Durham Bethlem & Maudsley Hospital School, Beckenham King Henry VIII School, Coventry St Mary’s College , Crosby Bilborough College, Bilborough Kirkby Stephen Grammar, Kirkby Stephen St Mary’s Catholic Comprehensive School, Longbenton Birkenhead School, Prenton Ladybridge High School, Bolton St Michael’s Catholic College, Bermondsey Bishop Stopford's School, Enfield Lakers, Coleford St Osmund’s School, Rothesay Road Bishops Stortford College, Bishops Stortford Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancaster St Peter St Paul Catholic High School, Lincoln Bolton School Boys Division, Bolton Lancaster School, Leicester St Peters RC School, Gloucester Bolton School Girls' Division, Bolton Lathom High School, Skelmersdale St. Francis’ College, Letchworth Bottisham Village College, Cambridge Leicester Grammar, Great Glen St. Simon Stock Catholic School, Maidstone , Groby Lewes Old Grammar School , Lewes Stafford Sports College, Stafford Broughton Hall High School, Liverpool Lincoln Christ's Hospital School Stamford Endowed Schools Burton Borough School, Newport Litherland High School, Liverpool Stamford High School, Stamford Callington Community College, Launceston Littleaver Community School, Littleover Stamford Queen Eleanor School Cantell Maths & Computing, Southampton, Liverpool College, Liverpool Stowe School, Buckingham Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Liverpool Liverpool School Improvement Services, Liverpool Sunninghill Prep School, Dorchester Cardinal Newman Catholic High, Warrington Longcroft School, Beverley Sydenham School, London Carres Grammar School, Sleaford Loughborough High, Loughborough Sydney Russell School, Dagenham Catmose College, Oakham Madani High School, Leicester Tapton Secondary School, Chace Community School, Enfield Magdalen College School, Brackley The Angmering School, Angmering Charlton School, Wellington Mandeville, Aylesbury The Beaconsfield School, Beaconsfield Chatham Grammar School for Boys, Chatham Manon High School, Oadby The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool Chelsea Academy, London Market Bosworth High School, Market Bosworth The Bemrose School, Derby Chesham Grammar, Chesham Marling School, Stroud The Blandford School, Blandford Forum Chesham Park Community College, Chesham Mascalls School, Tonbridge The Buckingham School, Buckingham Chichester College, Chichester Meadows Community College, Chesterfield The Catholic High School, Chester Chigford Foundation School, Waltham Forest Merchant Taylors’ Boys School, Crosby The Derby High School, Bury Chipping Sodbury School, Chipping Sodbury Mill Hill County High, Mill Hill The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham City of Leicester, Leicester Milton Keynes Academy, Milton Keynes The Fallibroome Academy, Macclesfield Claremont High School Academy, Kenton Miss K Ball, Exeter The George Eliot School, Nuneaton Cleeve School, Bishops Cleeve , Leicester The Grange, Aylesbury Colne Park high School, Colne Moorend Technology College, Crosland Moor The Heath Specialist Technology College, Runcorn Colne Primet High School, Colne Moorside Community Technology College, Consett The Hermitage, Chester le Street Colyton Grammar School, Devon Mosslands School, Wallasey The Kimberley School Consett Community Sports College, Consett Mount St. Joseph College, Bolton The Kings Academy, Coulby Newham Cramlington Learning Village, Cramlington Nenegate School, Peterborough The Kings School, Peterborough Cressex Community School, High Wycombe , Leicester The Manor School, Cambridge Crownhills Community College, Leicester Newport Girl’s High School, Newport The Marlborough School, Woodstock Culverhay School, Bath Noel Baker School, Alverston The Marlborough School, Woodstock Dallam School, Milnthorpe North Kesteven School, Lincoln The Peele Community College, Spalding Dartford Grammar School, Dartford Northfleet Technology College, Northfleet The Priory Academy LSST, Lincoln Dartford Grammar School, Dartford, Notre Dame RC School, Plymouth The Priory School, Hitchin Darwen Academy, Darwen Nottingham Girls High School, Nottingham The Queen Katherine School, Kendal De Aston School, Market Rasen Nottingham High School, Nottingham The Queen’s School, Chester Deer Park, Cirencester Oakham School, Rutland The Radcliffe School, Milton Keynes Denbigh School, Milton Keynes Oasis Academy Hadfield, Enfield The Ravensbourne School, Bromley Derby High School, Littleover Ockbrook School, Ockbrook The Samworth Enterprise Academy, Leicester Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham Orton Longville School, Peterborough The St Gothlac School, Crowland Dunottar school, Reigate Our Lady of Queen Peace, Skelmersdale The Trinity School, Nottingham Durham Community Business College, Durham Johnston Oxted School, Oxted, The Voyager School, Walton Comprehensive School, Durham Parkside Community, Chesterfield The William Allitt School , Newhall Egglescliffe, Stockton on Tees Parkside Sports College, Crook The Woodroffe School, Dorset Ellesmere College, Leicester Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham The Wycombe Grange PRU, High Wycombe English Martyrs R.C school, Leicester Peele Community College, Long Sutton Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough Esher C of E High School, Esher Phoenix High School, Shepherd’s Bush Thomas Hardye School,, Dorchester Excelsior Academy, Newcastle Phoenix School, Dawley Tiverton High School, Tiverton Farnborough School Tech College, Nottingham Pimlico Academy, London Tonbridge School, Tonbridge Fazakerley High School, Liverpool Portsmouth High School, Southsea Torquay Boys Grammar School, Shiphay Feltham Community College, Feltham Princes Risborough School, Princes Risborough Tuxford School, Tuxford Fyndoune Community College, Durham Pudsey Grangefield School, Pudsey University Academy Liverpool, Liverpool Garibaldi College, Forest Town Purbeck, Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes Uppingham Community College, Uppingham Gateacre School, Liverpool Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale Vandyke Upper School, Leighton Buzzard Gillingham School, Gillingham Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Faversham Wadham School, Crewkerne Gleed Boys’ School, Spalding Rawlin’s Community College, Quorn Walbottle School, Newcastle Gloucestershire College, Cheltenham Redbourne Upper School, Ampthill Walderslade Girls’ School , Chatham Gosforth Academy, Newcastle Ridgeway School, Plymouth Walker Technology College, Newcastle Great Sankey High School, Great Sankey Riverside Business & Enterprise College, Leicester Walton High, Milton Keynes Groby Community College, Groby Riverston School, Lee Green Warrington Collegiate, Warrington Gryphon School, Sherborne Rivington & Blackrod High School, Bolton Watford Boys Grammar, Watford Gumley House Convent School, Isleworth Robert Manning College, Bourne Wembley High Technology College, Wembley Guthlaxton College, Wigston Robert Smyth School, Market Harborough West London Academy, Northolt Halewood Centre for Learning, Liverpool Roseberry college and sixth form, Chester-le-Street Westhoughton High School, Bolton Hampstead School, London Royal Latin School, Buckingham Westleigh High School, Wigan Hampton College, Peterborough school, Leicester, Westwood Girls College, London Harlington Upper School, Dunstable Sacred Heart, Newcastle Wetherby Preparatory School, London Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich, East Dulwich Sacred Heart School, London St Hughes Mathematics & computing College, Grantham Hartpury College, Hartpury Sedbergh School, Sedbergh Whitecross, Lydney Hatch End High School, Harrow Settlebeck School, Sedbergh Whitgift School, Croydon Haven High Technology College, Boston Severn Vale School, Quedgeley William Brookes School, Much Wenlock Hazeley School, Milton Keynes Shenley Brook End School, Milton Keynes Winstanley College, Wigan High School for Girls, Gloucester Sherborne Girls School, Sherborne Winstanley Community College, Braunstone Hillside High School, Bootle Sir Charles Parsons School, Newcastle Wirral Grammar School for Girls, Bebington Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon Sir Christopher Hatton School, Wellingborough Wolgatston High School, Penkridge Hinchley Wood School, Hinchley Wood Sir John Lawes School, Harpenden Woolsthorpe Manor, Stamford Holgate Academy, Hucknall Sir Jonathan North, Leicester , Leicester Holland Park School, London Sir William Ramsay, Hazlemere Wrenn School, Wellingborough Holsworthy Community College, Holsworthy Sir William Robertson Academy, Wellbourn Wrockwardine Wood Arts College, Telford Huish Episcopi Academy, Langport , Leicester Wrotham School,, Sevenoaks, Hummersknott School & Language College, Darlington South Wigston High School, South Wigston Wye Valley School, Bourne End Huxlow Science College, Irthlingborough South Wirral High School, Eastham Wymondham High School, Wymondham, Imberhorne School , East Grinstead Southall School, Dawley Yeovil College, Somerset Impington Village College, Cambridge Southwolds Community School, Keyworth Schools with Teachers Trained and Equipped by the OEC in England, December 2013 Our Sponsors

The Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network The Rank Prize Funds, http://www.rankprize.org http://www.photonicsktn.org

http://www.cdtltd.co.uk http://www.wolfson.org.uk

http://www.thornlighting.co.uk http://www.scotland.gov.uk

http://www.iop.org

The MacRobert Trust http://www.themacroberttrust.org.uk http://www.iopscotland.org

http://www.thalesgroup.com

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk www.e2v.com

http://www.dstl.gov.uk We also gratefully acknowledge support from the following:

The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation The Hector Trust www.royalcommission1851.org.uk ASE www.ase.org.uk/

http://www.selexgalileo.com Acknowledgements and thanks

None of this would have been possible without the help of the following

 Professor C Hilsum CBE, FRS, FREng and Professor Wilson Sibbett CBE, FRS, FRSE and other members of the Optoelectronics Advisory Committee of the Rank Prize Funds

 Mrs J Delaney and Mrs S Bristol and other staff of the Rank Prize Funds

 Mr Stuart Farmer, Mrs Helen Pollard, Mr Bob Kibble, Mr Gordon Doig, Mr Alex Munro, Mrs Rhona Goss, Mr Brian Redman, Mr Gary Williams (IoP) and many other Science, or Physics, teachers in both Scotland and England

 Craig Harvey, Paul Neil and Ken Boyd of FifeX Ltd, Mr Alex Munro of JJM Electronics, Mr Peter Stensel and Mrs Fiona Austin of Mindsets Ltd AND Mr Doug MacLennan of DMC Web Services Ltd.

 Professor Miles Padgett, Professor Catriona Bryce and many academic researchers

To all of these, I offer my deep and heartfelt thanks.

Professor Ian A Shanks OBE, FRS, FREng, FRSE Founder of the Optoelectronics College 5 buggies and solar cells

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