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STEM Workshops in Sutton Coldfield
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STEM Workshops Across the Sutton Coldfield Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Sutton Coldfield and across West Midlands. Each selected workshop identifies product-specific curriculum links, and the specialist equipment specified for the quoted format is provided. The school provides the agreed space and retains its normal on-site duties.
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Pricing for Sutton Coldfield
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Published day rates for the Sutton Coldfield catchment run from £597 to £697 per day, excluding VAT. The figure that applies to your school depends on the workshop and on the geographic band selected from the school postcode.
The Sutton Coldfield catchment falls into a single geographic price band, and different workshops carry different day rates within it. Both ends of that range are published rates for a real workshop in a band this area covers, so it is a guide rather than a quote. Enter the school postcode for the day rate that applies to your school and the quoted format. Rates across the wider UK catalogue start from £597 per day excluding VAT, which is a floor rather than a quoted price.
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STEM Workshops Available Across the Sutton Coldfield Travel Catchment
Each workshop identifies relevant curriculum links, and the specialist equipment for the quoted format is provided. Every Hyett Education instructor holds an enhanced DBS certificate and is registered on the DBS Update Service. We can provide DBS certificate details to schools on request before a booking.
Early Engineers Express
A play-based EYFS and KS1 engineering workshop using LEGO Duplo trains. Children design, build, and test train tracks, bridges, and stations through hands-on construction challenges.
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Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Inclusive robotics and coding workshop for KS1 and KS2 using LEGO Spike Essentials and LEGO WeDo 2.0. Children code with icon blocks or word blocks, and no reading ability is required.
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Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Intermediate robotics workshop for KS2 to KS3. Block-based programming with LEGO Spike Prime and EV3, advanced robot builds, sensors, and challenge mats.
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Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics
Advanced text-based Python robotics for KS3 to KS5 using LEGO Spike Prime. Real-world engineering applications with up to 30 students per session.
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Drone Coding Workshop
Code flight paths and explore aerospace engineering through hands-on drone programming. Up to 30 students per session, with safety eyewear provided for everyone.
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AI Workshop for Schools (KS2-KS4): Train Robots with Machine Learning
Hands-on AI and machine learning for pupils aged 8 to 16, with image-recognition models controlling LEGO robots.
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3D Design & CAD Printing Workshop
CAD design and 3D printing workshops combining digital creativity with physical manufacturing.
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Cybersecurity & Cryptography Workshop
Cryptography, codebreaking, and online safety through engaging, hands-on challenges.
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Electricity & Circuits Workshop
Hands-on experiments for Years 2 to 6. Simple series circuits support statutory Year 4 and Year 6 science; Year 2 conductivity is an enrichment application. The in-depth format includes eBook creation.
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Stop-Motion Animation Workshop for Schools
Create LEGO stop-motion animations using professional techniques. Perfect for KS1 and KS2 creative computing.
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Schools We've Worked With Across the Sutton Coldfield Page Catchment
A selection of schools mapped to this page's travel catchment that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops. This catchment can extend beyond Sutton Coldfield across West Midlands; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
STEM in Sutton Coldfield: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Sutton Coldfield’s STEM heritage?
The man who made Sutton Coldfield a royal town was a churchman, not an engineer. Bishop John Vesey, thought to be a native of the town, who rose to become Bishop of Exeter, was instrumental in securing a royal charter from Henry VIII in December 1528 making it the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, then paved its streets, built 51 stone houses and gave the town its grammar school and Sutton Park. Its engineering landmark came four centuries later. On 17 December 1949, the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station became the first television transmitter to broadcast outside London and the Home Counties, bringing BBC Television to the Midlands with a 50 kilowatt vision transmitter operating on the 405-line standard; by population served, it remains the third most important transmitter in the country.
Which STEM role models are linked to Sutton Coldfield?
Lucy Wills was born in Sutton Coldfield in 1888 and became a haematologist. Researching macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy in Bombay in the late 1920s and early 1930s, she identified a nutrient in yeast, later named the Wills factor and shown to be folate, that prevented and cured the disease, and she went on to establish the first haematology department at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Raymond Neil Wilson was born in the town in 1928 and became head of optics and telescopes at the European Southern Observatory, where he pioneered active optics, a technique for continuously reshaping a telescope's mirror that is now the basic principle behind large modern telescopes; he shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his contributions to giant telescopes.
What STEM industries are in Sutton Coldfield?
Sutton Coldfield's 1949 transmitter is still the West Midlands' main broadcast mast, now transmitting digital television at 200 kilowatts. Good Hope Hospital, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, serves Sutton Coldfield, north Birmingham and a large part of south east Staffordshire. To the north east, Peddimore, an employment site being developed by IM Properties as Birmingham City Council's partner, welcomed its first occupier in 2023, a 2.3 million square foot Amazon fulfilment centre that employs around 3,000 people at peak times.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Sutton Coldfield?
BMet's Sutton Coldfield College campus teaches A levels alongside vocational qualifications, T levels, apprenticeships and adult courses, and was the college's only campus teaching A levels at its 2023 Ofsted inspection. Good Hope Hospital houses a Partnership Learning Centre part-funded by the University of Birmingham's Medical School. At Peddimore, Rockwool has bought land to build a manufacturing hub alongside the Amazon site.
Why is STEM education important in Sutton Coldfield?
Sutton Coldfield has produced people who worked at the edge of what was possible: a doctor who showed how a dangerous anaemia of pregnancy could be prevented and cured, and a physicist whose active optics underpin today's giant telescopes. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, gives today's pupils an early, practical taste of the same kind of problem solving, regardless of whether their family has any connection to science or engineering. For headteachers, it is a concrete way to widen what pupils believe they could become.
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