The School of Life Sciences is committed to working with schools and the community. Coordinated by Rebecca Freeman our Educational Strategy and Communications Officer, academic and support staff, researchers and students from the School work with schools and the community to provide experience of the Life Sciences.

We invite groups of school students to the University for days in the teaching laboratories, tours, tutorials and workshops and lectures and our academics often visit schools to give lectures about some of the research going on here at Warwick.

Examples of our projects:

The Summer School Programme
The Life Sciences Summer School Programme takes place over a week each summer during which 6th form students studying Biology come into the University for a day of lectures, tours and lab work. The Programme provides students with the opportunity to get some hands on experience in the labs, experience a university lecture and meet undergraduate students from the University.

	Extreme Pond Dipping Ian Portman, the Imaging Manager at Warwick Life Sciences, has been working with the International Gateway for Gifted Youth (IGGY) programme providing a workshop on Extreme Pond Dipping which enables school children to get hands on experience using an electron microscope to look at pond life.
	The Vacuole Song Lorenzo Frigerio, a plant cell biologist at Warwick Life Sciences who studies plant protein storage vacuoles, and his PhD student Charlotte Carroll, have written a song about vacuoles with colleagues from Oxford Brookes University, for use in secondary schools. The song and accompanying video aim to help students to understand these intracellular compartments in plants and how they function. The song is already proving popular with schools and more songs about other cellular organelles are currently in development for use in the classroom.
	The Tocil Bee Habitat Meadow Project The Tocil Bee Habitat Meadow Project is a project set up by local artists Wendy Campbell Briggs and Ann Loscombe which aimed to create a bee friendly meadow in the grounds of the University of Warwick to raise awareness of British honey bees. Dave Chandler, a senior research scientist in Life Sciences, provided his expertise on bees. This project engaged local school children and artists.

To find out more about what we can offer your school or community group contact life dot sciences at warwick dot ac dot uk