Resources & Insights
Practical guides, workshop updates, case studies, and articles to support STEM teaching in your school.
STEM teaching resources shaped by classroom experience
Each article names its author. Our team includes qualified teachers and STEM specialists with classroom and workshop experience. The topics reflect questions from the schools we work with: how to plan a STEM day, where to find funding for enrichment activities, what inspectors expect from personal development provision, and how to make coding accessible to more learners.
You will find practical guides for primary and secondary schools, honest case studies from workshop days, and subject-specific resources covering robotics, cybersecurity, computing, engineering, and more. Whether you are auditing your computing curriculum, looking for KS2 STEM activities, or building a case for enrichment funding, there is something here to help.
We publish new articles regularly. If there is a topic you would like us to cover, get in touch and let us know.
Latest articles
STEM Careers in the UK: From Classroom Skills to Real Jobs
Explore UK STEM careers through classroom tasks, transferable skills, job families and routes including apprenticeships, college and university study.
Drones in Education: How UK Schools Are Using Drone Technology
Drones in education UK: how schools teach computing, forces and geography with drone technology, plus curriculum links, indoor safety and workshop costs.
STEM Workshop Funding for Schools: July 2026 Update
A fact-checked July 2026 update on STEM workshop funding for UK schools, including the closed EngineeringUK round and current grant routes to verify before applying.
What the DfE Enrichment Framework Means for Your School
The DfE Enrichment Framework, published June 2026, sets out eight benchmarks and five enrichment categories for schools. A STEM lead’s plain guide to all of it.
Funding Enrichment Fairly: Free, Subsidised and Paid Activities
Enrichment funding explained: how to build a fair offer of free, subsidised and paid activities, plus the Every Child Can and Enrichment Expansion Programme.
Planning a Trust-Wide Enrichment Offer Across Your MAT
How multi-academy trusts plan a trust-wide enrichment offer across academies, align the DfE benchmarks, use school profiles and commission STEM centrally.
Ofsted, Enrichment and Personal Development from September 2026
How the state-funded school inspection toolkit from September 2026 treats purposeful, varied enrichment, and what the non-statutory DfE framework means in practice.
How STEM Clubs and Workshops Meet Enrichment Benchmark 2
STEM is the only domain the DfE names in Enrichment Benchmark 2. See how robotics, coding, drones and AI workshops map to the enrichment framework offer.
Cognitive Load Theory in the Classroom: How Teachers Maximise Learning
Cognitive load theory explains why working memory is limited and how teachers can reduce overload. Three evidence-based strategies to help pupils learn more.
STEM Workshops for SEND Pupils: Our Inclusive Approach
How Hyett Education delivers STEM workshops for SEND pupils, using the EEF five-a-day approach, adaptive teaching and experienced specialist teachers.
Cross-Curricular STEM: How Robotics Teaches Maths, Science, and DT Simultaneously
STEM workshops are not extra curriculum time. They cover computing, maths, science, and DT at once. Here is exactly how, with full curriculum mappings.
A Suggested Computing Curriculum Progression to Year 6
A non-statutory Hyett progression model for primary computing from Year 1 to Year 6, with workshop ideas that support selected concepts rather than replace full teaching and assessment.
Full Steam Ahead: Engineering, Literacy, and Lasting Learning for Young Learners
Discover how the Early Engineers Express workshop combines hands-on LEGO Duplo engineering, literacy, and cross-curricular learning for EYFS and KS1 children.
How to Get Funding for STEM Workshops in Your School
Every funding source for STEM workshops in schools, from Pupil Premium to RAF-funded programmes. Includes a template paragraph for your PP strategy.
What Does a Good Computing Curriculum Look Like in 2026?
Most primary schools over-deliver on digital literacy and under-deliver on computer science. Here is what a strong computing curriculum actually looks like.
15 STEM Activities for KS2 That Actually Link to the Curriculum
15 STEM activities for KS2 mapped to specific National Curriculum objectives. Real resources, time estimates, and difficulty levels for every activity.
How to Plan a STEM Day at Your School
A practical, stage-by-stage guide to planning a STEM day in your school, including timetable models, current-budget checks and delivery responsibilities.
British Science Week Ideas for Schools: 2026 Activity Guide
Practical ideas for British Science Week 2026 in primary and secondary schools. Assembly plans, classroom activities, whole-school events, and how to make the week count.
What the Computing Curriculum Review Means for Your School
A practical guide to England’s computing curriculum reform timetable: final revised curriculum planned for spring 2027 and first teaching from September 2028.
Educational Robots for Teaching Coding: A School Comparison
A practical comparison of educational robots for primary and secondary schools, with the checks schools should make before choosing Bee-Bot, Sphero, LEGO, micro:bit, Ozobot or VEX equipment.
The Hidden Costs of School Trips: What Your Budget Doesn't Show
School-trip budgets can include more than coach hire and entry fees. This guide identifies the cost lines schools can check against current quotes before comparing in-school alternatives.
How to Fund STEM Enrichment in Schools: A Practical Guide
Practical funding sources for STEM enrichment in primary and secondary schools. Covers Pupil Premium, grants, charitable trusts, PTFA fundraising, and more.
STEM Enrichment and Ofsted: Evidence Without Overclaiming
How schools can evaluate and document STEM enrichment under Ofsted’s renewed framework without treating one workshop as proof of impact or a guaranteed inspection outcome.
Teaching Online Safety: A Practical Guide for Schools
Move beyond fear-based online safety teaching. Practical strategies for building genuine digital literacy and cybersecurity understanding in your school.
STEM Workshops for Gifted and Talented Students
How STEM workshops provide challenge, extension, and aspiration for gifted and talented students, with specific workshop recommendations and competition pathways.
Why Schools Are Choosing In-School Workshops Over Trips
More schools are bringing enrichment in-house. From eliminating travel risk to reaching every pupil, here is why in-school STEM workshops are gaining ground.
How STEM Workshops Can Support Personal Development and Wellbeing
How STEM workshops can contribute to a school’s personal development and wellbeing programme under Ofsted’s renewed framework, without guaranteeing inspection evidence or outcomes.
Inclusive STEM Enrichment: Reaching Every Student
School trips can unintentionally exclude vulnerable pupils. In-school STEM workshops remove barriers for SEND, Pupil Premium, EAL, and anxious learners.
10 STEM Enrichment Activities for Primary Schools
Ten practical STEM enrichment ideas for primary schools, from robotics workshops and coding clubs to eco projects and drone technology, with curriculum links for each.
What Is School Enrichment and Why Does It Matter?
A practical guide to school enrichment: what it is, how it differs from the core curriculum, and why it matters for Ofsted, personal development, and student outcomes.
Innovation, Learning, and the Future of STEM
How STEM education is evolving in 2026 with AI, robotics, and hands-on workshops for schools. Insights from Hyett Education ahead of BETT at ExCeL London.
Encouraging Girls in STEM: Why It Matters and How Schools Can Help
The gender gap in STEM is real but not inevitable. Practical strategies for schools to encourage more girls into science, technology, and engineering.
EKO Summer Holiday Clubs: STEM for 134 Young People
How our funded EKO holiday clubs in Plymouth and Barrow-in-Furness brought robotics, AI, and 3D printing to 134 young people aged 8 to 14 over two weeks.
Cybersecurity and Cryptography Workshop
Our new cryptography workshop teaches students encryption, codebreaking, and real-world cybersecurity through three themed challenges with physical safes.
The Big Bang Fair 2025: Inspiring the Next Generation
Hyett Education exhibited at the Big Bang Fair 2025 at NEC Birmingham, delivering hands-on robotics challenges for young scientists and engineers aged 10 to 13.
Robotics Meets Football: A Day with West Bromwich Albion
How we combined robotics coding with Premier League football to engage girls in STEM at the Hawthorns. A real case study in sport-led outreach that works.
The Power of Problem-Solving: How Puzzles Build STEM Skills
Why problem-solving and computational thinking are essential STEM skills, and how puzzle-based challenges prepare primary students for robotics and coding.
AI and Machine Learning Workshop
Our hands-on AI workshop lets students build robot buggies with micro:bits, explore machine learning, and tackle the ethics of artificial intelligence.
3D Design and Printing Workshop
Our new 3D design workshop uses TinkerCad to teach students real CAD skills, creative problem-solving, and the fundamentals of 3D printing in schools.
How Space Themes Inspire Young Scientists
Space is one of the most powerful hooks for STEM engagement in schools. How teachers can use space contexts to bring coding, robotics, and science to life.
Forces in STEM: RAF Museum Midlands
Hyett Education delivered robotics coding at the annual Forces in STEM event at RAF Museum Cosford. A day of free hands-on STEM activities for Year 5 and 6.
Why Every School Should Prioritise Coding Education
Coding is a core national curriculum requirement and a vital career skill. Here is why schools must invest in computing education and how to get started.
Primary Computing Curriculum: Auditing and Benchmarking
A practical guide for primary computing subject leaders on auditing your school's computing provision, benchmarking staff confidence, and targeting CPD.