Rocket Science - 3 episodes

8XS at Woodchurch High don’t like science – and they’re not alone. Across the UK fewer and fewer kids in British schools want to study the tough stuff, like chemistry and physics. In Rocket Science a new three-part documentary coming soon to BBC Two, inspirational physics teacher, Andy Smith, sets out to convert a small sample of the nation’s youth by taking them on an amazing journey to discover everything safe there is to know about fireworks.

When Rocket Science begins, Chantelle thinks science is ‘just copying out’, Tasneem wants to be Kate Moss, Charlie can do the work but can’t be bothered to behave. Not one of the kids in the class wants to be a scientist: Postman, Private Detective, Pilot, Spy. Science doesn’t feature.

Science teacher Andy Smith has been teaching physics for ten years and has a passion for the science practical. He hopes that being involved in Rocket Science will inspire the kids of Class 8XS to re-evaluate their low opinions of science. Thirteen year-olds can be a notoriously tricky audience, so how does he plan to make science more enticing?

The series follows their progress across lessons, school trips and ‘practicals', as Andy Smith takes the teenagers on a fascinating journey to illustrate how the thrill of the spectacle of fireworks has its origin in a marvellous marriage of chemistry and physics.

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