Partnerships


A CATALYST FOR PARTNERSHIP


How a £5,000 grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry funded a multi-school project to monitor air pollution


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y role at the independent Abingdon School in Oxfordshire is to coordinate the


Abingdon Science Partnership, facilitating STEM enhancement activities across our local state school network. Through this I have networked with science teachers in the Abingdon Partnership for


Schools (set up and funded by 27 state schools when the LEA scaled back its activities due to cuts). One of these teachers was Holly


Irving, science and environmental coordinator at Caldecott Primary School. During last year’s lockdown, I chatted with Holly about the reduction in air pollution and, soon after our conversation, I saw a tweet


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