Science at Battle Abbey School (BAS) is growing in popularity amongst its students, with a high number of female pupils’ avid scientists. This distinctly bucks the national trend for broadly declining numbers of female pupils in Science. Perhaps this is at least partially due to the School’s pioneering work developing new eLearning resources, an initiative headed up by the School’s science department and one that gained the school its enviable eMature status in 2012, placing it amongst the top schools in the UK. Battle Abbey is one of England’s most distinctive landmarks and as such the school it hosts boasts beautiful and historic surroundings: a fabulous juxtaposition of heritage and new technology. The school has state of the art science facilities and its Science Department is one of the most successful in the UK. The Science Department has had record results year-on-year, despite tougher GCSEs, putting the school in the top fifty schools in the country for attainment. This arguably makes our Science Department amongst the best in the country. Members of the Science Department contribute to the national curriculum and work in collaboration with leading Universities in the writing, trialling and piloting of context-led activities. Science teachers have run numerous workshops for researchers, teachers, technicians and students at schools and universities, and organised many conferences. They have taken part in many national and international projects, such as Bright Sparks, COSMOS, NANOYOU, and more recently Open Discovery Space (ODS). Teachers are encouraged to show initiative, develop their own areas of interest, share resources and contribute to further developments in the development. The Open Discovery Space (http://opendiscoveryspace.eu) training courses consisted of preparatory and follow-up phases in addition to the actual course period which was a week-long intensive course that included keynote lectures, workshops, social/parallel activities. The main impact of the training was that the participating science teachers were immersed in the process of science inquiry via their interaction with collections of digital educational resources, tools, and online labs via the ODS portal. Teachers were exposed to innovative practices linked with the science curricula applied in their country but also increased their awareness of developments taking place in other European countries.