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juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Science Poetry Fizz Popping Again!, on the site EdLab MMU 11 months ago

Today Edlab students and Dr Sam took our Science Poetry workshop to year 6 at St Wilfrid’s RC Primary School.

Students Aiysha, Sonia and Chantelle from our foundation year supported the session as part of their […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Video Reporting: “I came for the points, but stayed for the fun!”, on the site EdLab MMU 11 months, 1 week ago

Last week we ran a Video Making creative space for EdLab and MMU Futures Students.
“I feel like I improved my speaking skills, and I feel more confident in speaking in front of the camera now”
Here, Fleur, […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Spark: Help Manchester Refugee Support Network with Education, on the site EdLab MMU 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN)

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN) is a grass-roots organisation directly managed by refugee communities for refugee communities. Our work focuses on the […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Spark: Create Resources to Help Parents Prepare their Children for School, on the site EdLab MMU 11 months, 3 weeks ago

We have teamed up with local primary school Divine Mercy to support them in engaging parents of children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The school would like students to develop short video style resources […]

juliette wrote a new post, The 3 Rs: Reflecting, Redesigning & Representing EdLab Experiences, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year ago

Our 3 Rs session is designed to give EdLab students the chance to reflect, redesign and represent their EdLab experience.

Reflection was facilitated by discussing EdLab projects with the group. Within this […]

juliette wrote a new post, Y6 Pupils at Manchester Met Learning about Science through Poetry and Poetry through Science, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 1 month ago

This week EdLab worked with students and staff to challenge the boundaries between science and poetry with Y6 pupils from Rolls Crescent primary school. We worked with Manchester Met’s Science Communication l […]

juliette wrote a new post, MMU Students support a Music and Coding workshop for kids at Half Term, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 1 month ago

Half-term can be a hard time for parents, especially on a drizzly Wednesday morning. At EdLab we were inspired by a call out from Hive Manchester to do half-term activities for young people. So this was one of […]

juliette wrote a new post, Birley Community Day: Mapping Local Learning, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 2 months ago

Yesterday, the EdLab team had the pleasure of meeting lots of people from our local area at the Birley Community Day hosted by MMU in Hulme. As a project about engaging students with the local community and […]

juliette wrote a new post, “The Entrepredemic: someone who is out there doing interesting things!”, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 2 months ago

Alex Fenton is a lecturer in digital business at the University of Salford’s Media City. He has made us a little video on his experiences with educational enterprise and innovation. Alex is also available on T […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab has Launched!, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 3 months ago

So today we launched EdLab, and joined some of our shiny new students with real live educational challenges! The lovely people from Hulme Garden Centre popped across the road, Paul from Z-Arts walked up the […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Spark: Inspire College Students, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 3 months ago

Loreto College is a local college to MMU. Loreto would like to support and inspire their students to get actively involved in their local community, and to consider further study in the area. The EdLab project is […]

juliette wrote a new post, EdLab Spark: Be a Sports Volunteer and Run Your Own Pop Up Sports Event, on the site EdLab MMU 1 year, 3 months ago

Sport Volunteering is a vibrant programme offered by MMU sport through the Sports Volunteer coordinator. It offers students from all disciplines the opportunity to enhance their student experience and […]