Tomorrow's Achievers STEAM Resource Hub
Elevate STEAM learning in your school
Welcome to your specialist library of interactive challenges and masterclasses. As your students complete these challenges, your school progresses through our curated achievement levels—celebrating your students’ journey from curiosity to mastery through the earning of digital badges.
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| Start your adventure. Dive into our immersive Escape Room series to master core curriculum skills through high-stakes storytelling | Expand your horizons. Take a deeper dive with specialist Masterclass lessons created by Marcelo Staricoff, focusing on inquiry and logic. | Lead the way. Look out for new, interactive resources to continue the immersive learning, coming in the summer term. |
Level 1: Explorer
A set of four immersive challenges designed to be worked on consecutively. These adventures reinforce core KS2 numeracy, geometry, and computing skills through high-stakes storytelling.
Escape the Space Station
Focus: Basic coding principles and logical thinking
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Computing | Algorithms and programming
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Riddle Cards
- Topic and Vocabulary Recap
Escape The Mad Scientist's Lab
Focus: Fractions and Operations
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Numbers | Fractions
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Riddle Cards
- Topic and Vocabulary Recap
Escape the Ancient Pyramid
Focus: Geometry and Shapes
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Geometry | Properties of shapes
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Riddle Cards
- Topic and Vocabulary Recap
Escape the Haunted House
Focus: Strengthening skills in measuring length, area, and volume
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Measurement
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Riddle Cards
- Topic and Vocabulary Recap
Level 2: Voyager
Take a deeper dive into STEAM with our specialist Masterclasses. Led by expert Marcelo Staricoff, these sessions focus on scientific inquiry, philosophy, and creative problem-solving.
The Four Fours Challenge
Focus: Systematic thinking and strategic problem-solving
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Numbers | Operations and mental fluency
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
A Love of Pi
Focus: Accurate measurement and playful mathematical concepts
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Measurement | Properties of circles, geometry
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
Measuring the Speed of Sound
Focus: Scientific investigation, researching and measuring
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Physics (Sound) and working scientifically
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
Dance of the Red Blood Cells
Focus: A collaborative look at the human circulatory system
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: Animal and human circulatory system
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
The River Philosophy
Focus: Creative, philosophical, and creative thinking with oral communication
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: English | Spoken language and philosophy for children
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
The Wrong Present
Focus: Exploring consequences and suggesting creative solutions
Audience: KS2 Learners
Curriculum Link: RSHE | Relationships and creative thinking
What you can expect:
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Presentation
- Expert Video
- Activity Sheets
About Dr. Marcelo Staricoff
PhD, NPQH, FCCT, FHEA
Marcelo is currently an Assistant Professor in Education at the University of Sussex and Course Leader of the Masters in Education (Full Time), Programme Lead for Visiting Scholars from Kazakhstan and the Recruitment Lead and Module Leader for the BA Primary and Early Years with QTS Course.
Marcelo is the author of the book entitled ‘The Joy of Not Knowing’ (Routledge, 2021) and a former Research Scientist and until recently, a Primary School Headteacher.
Marcelo has recently worked, as a consultant, for UNICEF and with policy makers, educators and textbook writers to help implement the Reformed National Curriculum Programme in Uzbekistan, with a specific focus on Mathematics.
Marcelo also works as a consultant for Coram, a children’s charity, runs courses and acts as an advisor to a number of schools and educational organisations. Marcelo speaks regularly at national and international events on the principles that underpin the Joy of Not Knowing’s philosophy of education and of school leadership.
Marcelo is also the author of Start Thinking (Imaginative Minds, 2005) and has published widely in the fields of creative, critical, multilingual, multicultural, metacognitive and philosophical thinking and learning in the primary classroom.
Marcelo is a member of the International Academic Forum Conference Committee (IAFOR) and of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Education (APPG) and until recently, a Trustee of the Laurel Trust Charity and the Chair of the Michael Aldrich Foundation Arts Charity.
Marcelo’s work and his contributions to education were recognised in 2019 by being named as a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and in 2023 when he became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Level 3: Pioneer – Coming Summer 2026
The final level of your Tomorrow’s Achievers journey. Stay tuned for our next set of specialist resources arriving soon.