Kulvinder Johal is a primary school teacher with a passion for teaching and investing in pupils. She has over 20 years experience in an inner London school where over 90% of the pupils are EAL, and has been head of year for over ten years, across years 3-6. She have been a science coordinator for around 7 years, was last year awarded the Primary Science Teacher of the Year award by the PSTT. Kulvinder has gone through the PQSM process, and has also gained full International School Status for the school in her other role as International Coordinator.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of... well pupils from my school, I hope! Our pupils and perhaps ‘our own personal children’, as I call my sons, could possibly be travelling up to space in their latter years. It’s something that is becoming agility, core strength, stamina and dexterity. The mission activities are planned weekly at school and work well with year 5 pupils, as it is part of their science curriculum and the PE element forms part of their requirements for the term.
What can pupils get out of studying space travel? Teachers and organisers are teaming up in order to help students discover the cosmos, as well as giving insight into the working lives of astronauts. Kulvinder Johal, assistant headteacher at Northbury Primary School in Essex, recounts her experiences with Mission X over the last 18 months, and discusses how it has benefitted her pupils.
If you had told me two years ago that I would be off to Science Learning Centre in York to collect the Space Education Quality Mark - Gold standard, I would have said “What is that? Never heard of it.” Well I have now, and I am off to collect the award and also to present the space work we have undertaken, which has just been out of this world.
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