🛡 HCS scheme → Gatsby 4 evidence
HCS Junior Science Topic Overview wording (exact)Launchpad careers layer (GB4)
🥡 Takeaway Thinking cards
One slip per topic. Print, cut out, and let pupils pick their spice level. 🌶 remember · 🌶🌶 apply to a job · 🌶🌶🌶 HOT higher-order thinking.
🎓 HCS Science Ambassadors planner
A ready-made role for Senior School Science Ambassadors in every topic, using their peer-mentoring role.
Ambassador briefing
- Hook (2 minutes): my science journey. What I study, what I love about it, and where I might go next (A levels, university, apprenticeship). This near-peer story is what counts for Gatsby Benchmark 7.
- Help. Support the mission roles: ask "why?" questions and let the juniors do the science.
- Hand-back. Juniors explain the science back to you. Praise the effort, and name a job that uses it.
Safeguarding: follow HCS safeguarding and peer-mentoring procedures. Staff are present throughout and ambassadors are never alone with a pupil. No photos on personal devices. Staff lead all hazardous demos. For ambassadors: log each session as leadership and volunteering evidence (e.g. in Unifrog) and reflect afterwards.
Free resource library
Every resource is free for UK state schools. Video links open curated searches so you can preview and choose. Always preview before class.