Viccy Fleming is one of the educational experts in SunBlock '99 team. She is Head of Science at the Downs School, Compton in Berkshire, having been recruited to set up the school's science sixth form which started in September 1998. She obtained a BSc Hons in Physics at Manchester University, then completed a PGCE at the Instititute of Education, London. She has extensive experience, with various teaching posts since 1970 (with career break 1977 - 1983) all in 11-18 state comprehensives in both inner cities and rural areas. She also had a spell with VSO in Ghana teaching 'A' level Physics pupils.

When Head of Physics at Ryeish Green School, she ran a county pilot project evaluating data loggers in school science (Ryeish was one of four schools involved in the project). She wrote a report on the project for the County Advisor. She has initiated the school's connection to the Internet and also ran the Schools Online Project. She successfully sought sponsorship from Apple Computers to provide multimedia machine for the project. She delivered part of a workshop run by County Advisory Service on the use of dataloggers in science for other Berkshire teachers and has trained staff within the school on use of internet in education.