School Workshops- In School Science

We bring exciting, hands-on science to your school or club. 

Our COVID Secure Planetarium has PPE screens between the presenter and the Bubble Group. We have full air replacement inside the dome with circulation fans and special screens with a full Risk COVID Assessment for the school to inspect.    

The Science Dome school outreach continues to make bookings for Spring term and Summer 2022, for the next school year. Any postponed school bookings will be included with the next school year, if a problem. We have full replaced air in our domes which provides constant fresh air and have been operating throughout this last year period on this basis with no problems to any schools.   

•             Services for 2022 for schools - Our COVID Secure dome at school site with PPE screens and a Risk Assessment. 

•             Written coding, robot building, all fully supervised by our team at the school site. 

•             Online planetarium via Zoom or Teams -- full service with dinosaurs or space. Facebook site has examples (Science Zone UK).

•             Open screen planetarium in a school hall- open to the air of the hall. (see picture above)

•             Experiment based workshops with equipment delivered to schools. Presenters at a remote online location or in school with PPE.

•             Rocket workshops with equipment delivered to schools. Presenters at a remote online location or in school.

•             Indoor portable planetarium dome in air-replaced COVID secure planetarium in a school hall. Internal PPE screens between pupils/presenter.

Additional Workshops also available:

1. Fractal Programme- see www.fractaldome.co.uk includes written programmes and teacher guides. Run by our team.
2. Robot making from the Lego Education WeDo Robots and Spike
3. Turing Tumble programme and practical sets:- (Primary Level)
4. Arcade Games Making and Coding (Primary Level)
5. Scratch Games: Minecraft and Roblox (maps)  (Primary Level)
6. AGES 14 plus SENIOR CODE Programming, web design and games construction including graphics
7. AGES 7 TO 14 CODE ZONE CREATE An exciting learning adventure for tech-loving kids
8. AGES 5 TO 9 CODE JUNIOR Build a foundation of coding and critical problem-solving skills through our fun and completely visual curriculum using drag and drop coding via Lego education

Full Planetarium Service below.              

               A full day visit costs in the range of £530 (excluding VAT) for the planetarium  with a typical day including up to five class shows. Travel supplements payable if a distance from our 10 UK bases. Half day school event priced at £430 and workshops are £170- all prices exclude vat.  Other Mobile Science Programmes for both Primary and Secondary level include planetarium, dinosaur show, Egypt and the Stars, Solar System and 'Zula Patrol’ (2 cartoon films) - Under the Weather' and 'Down to Earth ' for younger children.

Call Neil on planetarium telephone line to discuss any requirements - groups, schools or households - 01202 304734

School workshops and dome visual experience are supplied to schools and public events by Science Dome UK. See our current school events on Facebook site ''Science Zone UK'' or our full public Facebook Site   -- ''Science Dome UK''.  Search now for this on Facebook.  

We provide a fully digital mobile planetarium and natural history shows (rocks/ fossils and dinosaurs) to schools, colleges, youth clubs, scouts groups and playgroups. The service is provided in a blacked-out purpose built mobile domes which can be sited indoors using a school hall. Our domes are the most advanced digital domes in the country capable of showing 360 degree pictures and feature films. We operate 9 mobile digital domes from Bournemouth to London on a tour of the UK and EIRE on request. 

Domes are based at the following locations; Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Hastings Sussex, Boscombe, London, Tyneside, Warrington, Leeds, and Newark in Lincoln. 
In addition we have two special 'Outside Domes' for large events and fairs, now available. Our aim with the outside domes, is to make astronomy accessible to the public. 

Our domes can cater for a large event up to 60 people with special multimedia equipment and lens to provide a spectacular show for entertainment and education. All our mobile domes are fully digital capable of showing full dome films and an interactive solar system across the dome.