ACS Partnerships

Bringing exciting educational opportunity to all children

ACS Partnerships aims to increase collaboration, share expertise and good practice, widen educational opportunities and raise standards in key subjects.

By working together we can raise the standards of teaching and learning through innovative, relevant and accessible initiatives, filling the gaps in mainstream services that have a positive impact on the education of the children in all partnership schools.

Thorpe Park

4th October 2022

We have taken over the entire park for the day to celebrate STEAM education with our wider community. There are 10,000 free tickets available for state school students in the UK.

We launched the tickets at 9am on Monday 9th May. All tickets were booked within the hour. If you would like to attend please do email partnerships@acs-schools.com to be added to the waiting list.

Fully Booked - Apologies

Educational activities throughout the park

Throughout the park we will station educational STEAM related activities from partner organisations. Students can take part in these activities, see exhibits and watch shows. Partner organisations include The Royal Philharmonic, the RAF, Satro, Vex Robotics, Science Made Simple and much more.

Thorpe Park facilities and rides

All the park rides, restaurants and other facilities will be open as normal, just for us. The difference is that participants will only be allowed on the rides if they can produce evidence of learning from either the pre-event activities online (September), or from live activities on the day.

Gamifying education at the event

Whilst Thorpe Park is a fun exciting day out, we want to make sure that the event is highly educational too. Students will therefore only be able to access the rollercoasters and larger rides by showing evidence of learning collected from our various partner organisations at the park.

Capture Learning

All activities will be listed alongside their national curriculum topic coverage, allowing teachers to show evidence of learning which is specific to the taught curriculum. Don't miss a day in school to come to our event - this is school.

Educational Programme

Fun, Free and Educational

We have partnered with industry, charities and universities to bring the participants the most exciting and educational experiences. Once you have secured your park ticket for the day, you can plan your trip and book tickets for many of the attractions. No queueing - an allocated timeslot for your students. We will open an Eventbrite booking site in September for individual activity bookings.

Titan the Robot

The Royal Philharmonic

Royal Air Force

Science Made Simple

Titan the Robot

Titan is a huge 10 foot tall and 4 foot wide robot. He will come out and perform 3 times in the day.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The RPO will be at our front gate playing us in and will be offering activities in the park for our visitors.

The Royal Air Force

The RAF have kindly agreed to bring a Chinook and a Puma Helicopter, as well as their flight crew for the day.

Science Made simple Shows

A team of Science presenters will be running shows all day across two indoor venues in the park.

Vex Robotics

Satro Village

Meru

Into Film

Vex Robotics

A team will assist your students in making robots and testing them out in our 'Test Zone'

Satro Village

A whole zone dedicated to Satro and their wonderful activities in STEM, construction and employability.

The Big Bugzy Build

A select group of students will have the opportunity to work on a motorised device for children with disabilities - which will be donated to a family at the end of the day.

Film competition

Students will be given a chance to hone their filming and editing techniques in this fun competition. Support for teachers from INTOFILM prior to event and post event.