February Primary School visits
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During February members of CITER attended two Primary Schools; Woodlands Community Primary School in Cwmbran on the 12 February and Cwrt Rawlin Primary School in Caerphilly between 15 – 16 February to deliver various outreach activities.
The first visit involved delivering our popular maggot racing activity and the second visit was to teach the children about the human body. The "maggot racing" activity was demonstrated to ninety children throughout the day and members taught the children the life cycle of a maggot and how maggots are used in wound healing. The visit to Cwrt Rawlin Primary School involved delivering our "bones and organs" activity to children in year three and year four over a day and a half visit.
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A CITER member teaching the maggot life cycle to a group of children.
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As part of the "guess the body weight" a group of children using A4 sheet of paper to guess the surface area of the skin.
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A CITER member delivering "guess the body part" and using vegetable props to demonstrate the weight of the human brain which is 3 pounds.
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A group of children using the CITER maggot racing track to race the maggots using torches.
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A group of children placing the "bones and organs" on the outline of the human body they had drawn.
Many thanks to the PhD students for delivering these workshops including Benjamin Rumney, Mike Pascoe, Hayley Pincott, Kathy Beirne, Mukhit Kulmaganbetov and undergraduate students Melissa Hewitt and Saskia Monaghan.
Public engagement is a key part of CITER and this year's calendar is very busy. CITER would welcome volunteers to attend forthcoming public events and visit local Primary Schools; if you are interested please contact: