Our outreach activities for Pre-16 include a range of in-school, online and on-campus activities, including STEM specific workshops!
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Years 7-11 Assembly Talks
25-minute talk to introduce students to higher education and student life. Tailored to Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4.
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Year 7 Game of Student Life
A one-hour activity introducing students to the university experience in a fun and interactive way. Students explore what they can study, the societies they can join and how university is different to school. Teacher-led, technology-free session.
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Year 7-9 Robotics Campus Visit
This one-day campus visit, aimed at Y7-Y9, will offer students the opportunity to learn more about robotics.
Students will be provided with LEGO Spike Prime sets and given a variety of challenges from constructing different robots to coding different actions with word blocks. Each group will also get a chance for their constructed and programmed robots to compete against one another.
These visits are now bookable during Term 3 and 4 depending on academic availability. Each visit can accommodate up to 20 students and each school can decide how many workshops they want the visit to include. To book a Robotics Campus Visit or learn more about the robotics workshop options, please email Katrine at k.l.solvaag@kent.ac.uk or outreach@kent.ac.uk with your preferred dates.
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Year 8 Project Visit Day
A visit day to our campus offering the opportunity to explore a university environment, build core thinking skills and work as a team to complete a project.
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Year 8 Discovery Day for Families and Supporters
A half-day visit to campus during the Easter or Summer holidays for students and their family/supporters to learn more about university and campus life.
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Year 9 University Life
A one-hour workshop designed to answer the ‘Who? What? When? Where? How?’ questions about university. Participants are encouraged to reflect on possible reasons for going to university, what they could study there, where they might live and how studying at university differs from being at school. Can be delivered in school or on campus, with the opportunity to meet staff and students and take part in a campus tour.
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Year 9 Stats Gone Wild
A STEM visit day working with academics and student ambassadors to discover how maths helps conservationists count animals.
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Year 9 The Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses
Open young people’s eyes to the excitement, beauty and value of mathematics.
- June 14th
- June 21st
- June 28th
All in-person at the University of Kent Canterbury Campus
Teachers register your interest in nominating pupils by emailing mathsoutreach@kent.ac.uk
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Maths: What’s the Point?
This mathematics-themed day gives Year 10 and 11 students the opportunity to explore the importance of maths, not only when it comes to sitting their GCSEs but also in real life contexts and careers beyond their time at school.
This one-off event will be taking place on Friday 6th June 2025 from 9.30am to 2.30pm at our Canterbury campus and is particularly suitable for students who want to better understand the benefits of continuing to study maths.
If you’re interested in bringing a group of 15, 20 or 30 students, please email the organiser Katrine at k.l.solvaag@kent.ac.uk or outreach@kent.ac.uk to reserve a space or to ask any questions about this event which you may have. Should there be sufficient interest, we might organise a second date.
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Year 10 Summer School
A two-night residential experience offering students the opportunity to explore their options and experience university life.
Dates this year are 29th July 2025-31st July 2025.
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Year 11 Exam Success Package
A series of three 1-hour self-led online sessions designed to prepare students for their GCSE exams and beyond.
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GCSE Combined Science Practicals
These one-day science practicals provide students with the opportunity to complete a more advanced version of curriculum required practicals whilst learning how these techniques are utilised in real-life research.
- Wednesday 26th March 2025: Reaction Time
During this visit, students will be provided the opportunity to carry out a variety of reaction time tests using the university’s research equipment. They will also get to learn about how these tests can be used by sports scientists to support athletes.
- Thursday 24th April 2025: Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?
During this visit, aimed at teaching the principles of scientific enquiry, students will be given the opportunity to perform PCR and electrophoresis in our undergraduate bioscience teaching laboratories to solve a theoretical murder. There are three suspects, whom the forensic team has collected DNA samples from, and the students will be tasked with testing whether or not they are a match to the DNA found at the crime scene.
Each visit will take place at our Canterbury campus and last from 9.30am to 2.30pm. We do have limited spots available due to lab capacity, so we recommend booking at your earliest convenience. Each school will be able to bring 15 students each. To book onto one or multiple the visits, please email Katrine k.l.solvaag@kent.ac.uk or outreach@kent.ac.uk with your estimated student number.
All the students who participate in one or more events from this series will be provided with access to our new online GCSE Combined Science Revision Support course.
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For more information on Pre-16 activities, please click here.
FIND OUT MORE
You can contact us at:
T: +44 (0)1227 824149
E: outreach@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/schools-and-colleges/outreach