Caroline Keep is passionate about two aspects of her job: inspiring children through science and technology and making things.
In her job at Penketh High School, near Warrington, she combines the two and in a big way.
Ms Keep, who won new teacher of the year at last year’s Tes Schools Awards, is not only a physics teacher.
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She is also the director of the country’s first state school-based “makerspace” classroom, where she aims to get all of the school’s pupils inspired by science and technology.
The Spark at Penketh is the fulfilment of an ambition she developed before she had even started training to be a teacher.
She came into teaching after “catching the bug” for helping young people to learn while doing…
