For headteachers, enrichment and science leads
Make STEM a strength of your enrichment offer
The Department for Education’s new Enrichment Framework gives schools eight benchmarks for a strong enrichment offer, with STEM part of its “wider life and future skills” category. Our free self-audit shows you where your STEM offer stands in 20 minutes, and what to do next.
The framework in two minutes
What the framework asks of schools
8 benchmarks
From a strategy for enrichment to tracking outcomes and improving each year.
5 categories
STEM sits in wider life and future skills, beside arts, sport, the outdoors and civic engagement.
Published June 2026
Voluntary DfE guidance for schools and colleges in England, ready to use in your development plan.
Read the full benchmarks on GOV.UK, or our plain-English guide for primary schools.
Where STEM enrichment helps most
Four benchmarks a STEM partner strengthens
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Broad and well-rounded
STEM in the school day for every pupil, and a weekly club after school.
With Louno Space: The Journey Up, our free whole-school assembly, plus a weekly Space Club.
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Accessible and engaging
Every pupil can take part, with attention to pupils eligible for pupil premium and pupils with SEND.
With Louno Space: An assembly that reaches every child, and club places your school allocates.
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Working in partnership
External partners broaden what the school can offer.
With Louno Space: Sessions led by engineers and scientists, so children meet people who work in STEM.
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Outcomes focused
Named outcomes, tracked over time.
With Louno Space: Space Club tracks eight skills, including problem solving, teamwork and creativity, and celebrates them with badges.
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The STEM enrichment self-audit
Two printable pages for your senior or science lead. Score 24 statements across the eight benchmarks, note your evidence, total your score and pick three next steps.
✓ Built around the eight DfE benchmarks
✓ Written for primary schools
✓ Quick wins for STEM included
Three steps
From audit to a stronger STEM offer
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Score your offer
Run the self-audit with your senior or science lead. It takes about 20 minutes.
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Reach every pupil
Book The Journey Up, our free whole-school space assembly, led by a practising spacecraft engineer.
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Build something weekly
Add a weekly Space Club or class workshops, with outcomes tracked through the year.
Building STEM from a standing start? Read our one-year plan for improving STEM provision.
Space-themed STEAM clubs, camps and birthday parties, built by engineers, across the UK.
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