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Space Camp is a programme of residential experiences that you can run yourself in your own school and will immerse your pupils into the amazing world of Space Science.

The inspirational theme easily links with many areas of the curriculum and provides a wealth of fabulous learning opportunities that will ensure that these are experiences that will create memories that last a lifetime.

Primarily we hope that this will be a fabulous opportunity to enrich your Science Curriculum as well as provide time to be creative in your approach by linking Science themes to Art, Literature, Maths, Drama, PE, PSHE, Computing and Technology. We hope to encourage and support as many schools as possible across the UK with setting up their own Space Camp programme.

Who We Are
The Space Camp UK team are based at Shrubland Street Community Primary School in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. The team is lead by Amanda Poole, a Physics AST who also works as an Ogden Teacher Fellow and PSTT Fellow and runs the Phiz Lab at Shrubland Street. Sam Croston, Science Specialist TA, organises all of the Space Camps at Shrubland Street and helps to develop creative activities for the pupils do as part of their camps. We are gradually building up a support team of Astro Ambassadors from local Universities who come and run activities at the camps and tell the children all about their work. Professor Andrew Levan from Warwick University has been heavily involved in the pilot of the project and is now supporting us in growing this link with the academic world.

Our History
In 2014 Amanda Poole won the 'Let Teacher's Shine' completion, run by the Shine Trust for her idea to develop a programme of low cost Science residential activities in the school setting. The prize was the funding to bring this idea to life and so across 2014 and 2015 around 180 children from the ages of 5 to 11 at Shrubland Street Primary School participated in a Mini Space Camp with an additional 20 KS2 pupils attending the week long Space Camp Max during the Easter Holidays.

The programme has had a positive impact on many aspects of children's learning and development as well as having a far reaching impact on many aspects of school life. For this reason Amanda and the amazing team that have helped her bring Space Camp UK to life wanted to try to share their experiences and encourage other schools around the country to set up their own programmes. In Phase 2 of the project, the Shine Trust are funding a project to roll out the Space Camp programme to another 10 schools across the UK.