AN OUT OF THIS WORLD SCHOOL DAY

This half or full day sesson is for primary EYFS/KS1/2 and Secondary KS3 schools and consists of:

  • All school assembly - live or live streamed to your whole school community, in classes and at home

  • A day of creative activities - from rocket making to design, coding and cardboard engineering

  • A real rocket launch - a dynamite rocket at home time for your whole community to send everyone home buzzing

Sign up here for more info and to book

JUST A DAD!

See the film below that McLaren made about our co-founder Nick Corston and his work at STEAM Co. to Inspire a Million Kids To Aim Higher Than High.

As seen on BBC NEWS

SAFETY

We provide a full documented method statement and risk assessment, with our £5m PL insurance and enhanced DBS.

DONATIONS

As a non-profit community enterprise we’re probably harder up that you are, so request donations for these sessions

  • £300 (half day with one rocket workshop)

  • £500 (full day with rocket workshops for every class)

  • £750 (full day - with 3 different creative activities for every class in the school)

    £100 (supplement for each additional form year for larger schools)

All options include all school assembly and dynamite rocket at home time.

We sometimes have funding and sponsorship when we are able to offer discounted/free sessions and have other ways of reducing the cost via parental donations/purchases. Do get in touch.

WE’RE ON A MISSION TO INSPIRE A MILLION KIDS TO AIM HIGHER THAN HIGH

POWERED BY THEIR CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY

SO THEY DON’T GET LEFT BEHIND

In thirty years time, a dad aims to take a million people to Mars.

As a lad he read every book in his school library.

And has worked hard and aimed high ever since

He started making rockets and has let another dad fly one into space on his SpaceX Inspiration4 mission.

Just one of the inspiring stories we tell on this session.

Check out Nick Corston launching our #MissionToMars UK Tour back in 2021 on the BBC News above.

RECOMMENDED BY 100% of HEAD TEACHERS

*When we surveyed all the head teachers of schools we visited 100% of those that responded said they would recommend this session to a colleague.

Every head teacher we have asked since at the end of one of our visits has said they would recommend it too.

OVERVIEW OF THE DAY

For primary and secondary students, the session consists of:

ALL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

A roller coaster assembly about art, aspiration and amazing creatives like Sir Elton John, Mary Jackson, Homer Hickam and Dr Helen Sharman.

CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

We’ll bring everything you need to run a number of creative activities across the school:

  • Rockets - make and fire paper air rockets over 200 feet

  • Coding - lean to code with a BBC Micro:bit

  • Engineering- getting our kids on the tools, creating with cardboard

  • Design - create #ILOVEART logos to celebrate creativity

COMMUNITY ROCKET LAUNCH

What better way to send everyone home buzzing than with a real dynamite rocket launch to 500 feet and parachute recovery system

All fully insured, risk assessed, covid secure and GDPR compliant.

WOULD YOUR COMPANY SPONSOR THESE SESSIONS?

Book a session now or step up to sponsor one. Please. Our kids need art and creativity.

Here are some films from our #InspiredToLearn Summer Tour

BOOK A SESSION FOR YOUR SCHOOL

We want to take this into schools right across the UK, if we have sponsors or grant we may be able free sessions.

Check out the film above where we live streamed to a school from a cardboard Coventry cathedral!

Enquire/book here

SPONSOR A SESSION

We’re looking for sponsors for one or more of these sessions with a one off payment or as a Patreon over the year.

Like the dad and grandad in the film above did in Devon in their children’s Primary.

Sign up now.

ANOTHER IDEA BORN AT CAMP BESTIVAL

Since we were inspired us to start STEAM Co. ten years ago after a weekend at Camp Bestival, we’ve run our #ARTofROCKETS session there for a few years now, based on ‘Rocket Boys’ - the true story of Homer Hickam and his mates - see film here.

After lockdown robbed us of a year’s live festivals, we were delighted when Josie and Rob Da Bank asked us to do a takeover of the epic Art Town area at Camp Bestival 2021

It was inspired by a few Rocket Dads, a Grandad and other Creative Carers, our theme was 'A Mission to Mars' to inspire #RocketKids everywhere

Here are a few photos of what we got up to!

INSPIRATION 4 AUTUMN TOUR

We were delighted when a dad, Jared Isaacman offered to sponsor our #InspiredToLearn21 Summer Tour, not least as he was off to space as commander of the world’s first all civilian crewed space flight - the SPace X Inspiration 4 mission.

He generously stepped up to help sponsor the #MissionToMars21 Tour too.

Check out their NetFlix series trailer here that launched Mon 6th Sept - it’s great viewing, especially the episode where they choose the crew and then when they are in space.

Jared is now the NASA Administrator.

WE’RE ALL BORN ARTISTS

15 years ago a group of parents thier community started STEAM Co. to run creativity days in their kids' school.

To help Connect our Kids with their Art and our Communities with their Schools.

Since then we’ve set STEAM Co. up as a non-profit community enterprise and worked with school communities across the UK and it’s been quite a journey as you can see in the film here.