Newton's Apple facilitated a DfES Project Faraday Conference on 10 May 2007 in London.

Project Faraday aimed to support excellent, interactive science teaching and learning by developing inspirational ‘exemplar’ designs for science provision. The designs will be published in the autumn of 2007 and there will be at least one demonstration project built from 2008 in every region in England.  Project Faraday will: 

Inspire and inform all future building projects;

Support the drive to improve attainment levels in science and encourage more young people to take science at higher levels;

Fully reflect the requirements of the new science curriculum; and

Explore the ways in which the whole school building and its grounds can contribute to learning science.

The objective of the stakeholder consultation event was to enable the wider science education community and other stakeholders to hear about and subsequently discuss and evaluate the preliminary concepts and ideas emerging from the project.

The event was chaired by Mukund Patel, Deputy Director - Schools Capital (Policy & Delivery), DfES, facilitated by writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry (also a Founding Member of Newton’s Apple), and approx 110 people participated. As part of the day, a series of four workshops enabled participants to provide direct feedback on the design teams by evaluating the design proposals against the criteria of Curriculum Relevance, Inspiration, Replicability, Sustainability and Functionality. 

The designs resulting from Project Faraday can be seen on the Teachernet website.