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 | CEO Update
In this section ASE's CEO Annette Smith brings you a brief overview of the past month’s activities at headquarters, including some of the major interactions.
As ever, April is interrupted by holidays, but there has still been plenty going on:
- The Anniversary Appeal, set up to celebrate ASE’s 50th anniversary in 2013 has launched in Education in Science and on the website. The celebrations will comprise events throughout 2013, starting with the Annual Conference in Reading in January, where the Anniversary Book will be launched. A Summer Celebration conference will form a major part of the celebrations in late June.
- The first Corporate Members under the new scheme have come on board and recently received the first of their own newsletter.
- During the month, nominations have been coming in for positions on the Association's Council and Assembly and for the next Chair-Elect. All Information and supporting statements will be published on the website as part of the election process on 4th June 2012. Voting closes at 4pm on Friday 15th June.
- The Chair of Council Richard Needham and the Chair-Elect of the Association Liz Lawrence represented ASE at the Irish Science Teachers Association Conference in Dublin in April.
- The CEO has had meetings with Nuffield Foundation for Educational Research and the CfBT Education Trust. She attended the Council for Subject Associations AGM and Conference and the Sense about Science Tenth Anniversary Lecture.
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 | Essential Reading: Lab Safety
ASE Publications support exciting science lessons at primary and secondary level, see the Online Bookshop for details of a wide selection of titles.
If you are planning science lessons you need advice and guidance on making the lessons safe as well as exciting. Make sure your school has these essential health and safety books.
Secondary schools
Safeguards in the School Laboratory - A concise account of the best advice available on health and safety in science for secondary schools.
Primary schools
Be Safe! (4th edition 2011) An indispensable and best selling resource – every primary school needs at least one copy!
Reviews of new titles from ASE are available here.
Remember ASE members enjoy substantial discounts on all resources in the online bookshop!
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 | Teaching Triple Science
"Triple sciences at GCSE are an increasingly popular option with young people and the number of schools and colleges which are successfully delivering triple sciences continues to rise.
"I’ve been working with a number of schools and colleges to produce case studies on how they have successfully implemented triple science, exploring some of the barriers and challenges they overcame on the way, and some of the opportunities they capitalised on when putting together their programmes."
Read more from this blog by Marianne Cutler, ASE's Executive Director of Professional and Curriculum Innovation, here.
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