The Curiosity Lab

16/10/2026

When learning about how communities monitor and prepare for volcanic activity, we could do a written activity about the different methods...

Or, we could design a game where the children have to run their own villages and balance monitoring the volcano and working out how best to prepare to keep the population safe 🌋

Could this be on the shelves in Tesco before Christmas? I'm not sure, but we all had fun and I enjoyed making the game! Just one of the many different hands-on ways we learn in our science classes.

14/10/2026

A little action shot from our Wonder Science class last week! 🚀

Get in touch with Durham Home Ed Community Hub to find out more how you can join our classes.

🩵 Wednesday Win 🩵

We run Wednesday to Friday in locations in and around Durham City so today marks the beginning of our 'week'. It's always a good day to look back and celebrate something special from last week. There are so many things to choose from but today I really have to highlight our World Space Week celebrations last week. All ages enjoyed space related Science sessions with The Curiosity Lab

We run science sessions for each of our age groups. To enquire, please email [email protected]

Wonder Science (4-6 years) - monthly
Build Science (7-9 years) - monthly
Thrive Science (9-11 years) - monthly
Think Science (11-13 years) - monthly
Physics, Biology and Chemistry (11-13 years) - weekly
Natural Sciences (14-16 years) - twice a month

12/10/2026

Wow, thank you everyone! Our Spooky Science session at Merryoaks Community Hall is now fully booked 🎃

We do have the possibility of putting on a second class so if you missed out but would still like to come along, you can join the waitlist at https://bookthatin.com/link/SpookyScience

Please also comment below if you'd prefer an earlier (11ish) or a later (2ish) session.

I can't wait to celebrate with everyone who's booked! Halloween is one of my favourite themes 👻

10/10/2026

There's a good chance of aurora tonight and clear skies too!

G3 geomagnetic storm in progress (10/10/26 19:15 BST) if you have clear skies look out as soon as it gets dark!

10/10/2026

There's just three weeks until Halloween itself but before that, we have our Spooky Science Halloween Special at Merryoaks Community Hall to celebrate 🎃

Come along for a session packed with potions, pumpkins and hands-on spooky experiments! Perfect for primary-aged children.

Book your space now at https://bookthatin.com/link/SpookyScience

09/10/2026

It's not very often you get to say you blasted your class off into space, but that's exactly what we did in our Wonder Science group with Durham Home Ed Community Hub as we celebrated World Space Week 🚀

My arms had a good workout pumping too! I think I'll be investing in a foot pump for the biggest bottles in future 😂

05/10/2026

I've got some very exciting news this evening, we're running a Spooky Science Special for Halloween!

Join us at Merryoaks Community Hall where we will be mixing up potions and more fun hands-on spooky science experiments, as well as our favourite puking pumpkin 🎃

This class is best for children aged 4-11 years. Children can come in fancy dress, although be warned some experiments can get messy! Book now via the link in the comments.

05/10/2026

A fun fact to start your Monday morning for World Space Week 🌍

I find it absolutely mind boggling to think how quickly we're hurtling through space on our little blue planet!

Tag someone below who'd enjoy this fact too

03/10/2026

We've started our first topic in our Natural Sciences class with Durham Home Ed Community Hub which is all about microscopy 🔬

The children started by preparing their own slides with onion cells and viewing them under the microscope, identifying the cell structure and comparing slides with and without stain to see what difference it made.

What a great first attempt!

29/09/2026

A small confession that probably won't come as much of a surprise to those who know me...

I'd love to say that I have an organised plan of what to post on social media and when, and believe me I have tried, but I just can't get it to stick for long. As for scheduling posts... Well, I really did try 🙈

Instead, our social media is a lot more sporadic, with a mix we've been doing in classes, something new I've found interesting or me rambling because I haven't posted something for a few days and feel like I should so you lovely people still see me on your feeds! So hello if you're reading this 👋👋

You'll be pleased to know that all my time and organisational energy goes into coming up with new ideas for sessions, researching topics and testing experiments. It just means that you guys just get treated to a photo of the worst Tub of Shame we've ever had instead 😂 If you want to know what that name is all about, you'll have to ask my Thursday crew!