Trainee primary science teachers from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Murray School of Education (MSE) are making science fun for local school children. Each year CSU students take “practical science activities” to a host school, according to John Rafferty, a lecturer with the School of Education. “Walbundrie Primary School is hosting this year as part of their Small Schools Cluster ongoing commitment to innovation and five schools are coming in by bus. There will be 11 activities in all, with children working with undergraduate teachers on interesting and practical science issues such as a volcano and solar ovens made out of pizza boxes in which they cook little biscuits. It is just a really good example of trainee teachers in the field working with schools with University support. This idea that you go away to university for four years and come out as teachers is a myth, the CSU students are involved with schools the whole time, and the local schools have a big say in their development.”