Festival of Science and Drama

We have a number of initiatives to promote science in schools. A month ago, I was in Tylorstown

giving out certificates at the event organised by the Education Business Partnership.

Today, we had the Festival of Science and Drama organised by Phil Rowlands, Head of Pentre Primary School. He is seeking to restore an event which used to take place in the Rhondda. Phil has great ambitions for it, and wants more schools to join in. As he says, 'drama is a great way to learn science'. Today we saw presentations from schools. Two of these, 'Slime', performed today by Pentre Primary and written by Phil Rowlands, but first performed in 1981, and 'The Ear and How it works', performed by Tonypandy Primary and written by Gareth Todd-Jones, are available as resources for schools on the Science-Drama website established by Phil with backing from Barclays Bank.

Today's event was very enjoyable and I hope more schools will take part in future.