Primary Science CPD
School-based training for primary teachers and science subject leaders. Sessions can be tailored to your school’s priorities and delivered as twilight, half-day, or full-day sessions. Zoom sessions also available. Get in touch to discuss options.
Twilight (90min)
£250
Inc. travel (South East)*
Half Day (3 hours)
£350
Inc. travel (South East)*
Full Day
£550
Inc. travel (South East)*
Online Science Course
Curriculum and Teaching
Improving Primary Science in your School
A broad overview of delivering the national curriculum: progression, practical activities, and integrating technology across KS1 and KS2.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Developing Working Scientifically Skills
How to explicitly teach skills rather than hoping children absorb them. Practical activities to develop each working scientifically strand.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Outdoor Science
Practical ideas for taking science outside across different topic areas. Resources and planning frameworks to make outdoor learning manageable and purposeful.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Embedding Working Scientifically
Practical ideas for purposeful enquiry across the types of scientific investigation. Planning for independence, progression, and pupil confidence.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Pupil Talk and Oracy in Science
Using talk to develop and test scientific thinking. Strategies to build discussion, critical thinking, and confidence in the classroom.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Science Subject Knowledge
A range of sessions that looks at particular topic areas – addresses misconceptions and how best to teach. Based on your staff needs.
All staff / Twilight or Half Day
Subject Leadership
New to leading primary science
A practical grounding for newly appointed science subject leaders. Audit tools, planning frameworks, and guidance on raising the profile of science in your school.
Subject Leaders / Half Day
Assessment in primary science
Formative and summative approaches linked to national curriculum statements and working scientifically. Practical strategies that reduce workload.
All staff / Subject Leaders / Twilight or Half Day
Progression in primary science
How substantive and disciplinary knowledge develop across year groups. Planning for coherent progression in both science concepts and enquiry skills.
All staff / Subject Leaders / Twilight or Half Day
Science Capital in the Classroom
Explore how to connect science learning to pupils’ lives, identities, and everyday experiences. Useful for schools where engagement with science needs nurturing.
All staff / Subject Leaders / Twilight or Half Day
Technology and AI
Using AI in primary teaching
Practical AI tools for planning, resource creation, and reducing workload. Focused on what is genuinely useful for primary teachers.
All staff / Twilight / Half Day
Using AI in primary teaching (online course)
Self-paced Udemy course. Eight modules covering AI tools for planning, assessment, communication, and classroom use. 40 downloadable resources included.
All staff / Self-paced
Coming soon
ICT in Science
This course will look at different ways to incorporate ICT tools into your primary science lessons. Make links to computing.
All staff / Twilight / Half Day
Online Safety and Professional Conduct
A webinar that looks at expectations for teacher behaviour online in relation to personal and professional conduct. Risks that children face online when using the internet.
All staff / Twilight / Half Day
All sessions can be adapted to your school’s context. Bespoke packages for MATs and multi-school bookings are also available. Travel costs outside the South East are charged at cost.
About Danny Nicholson
Danny is an independent trainer and consultant. He is a former science (biology) teacher and now delivers ICT and science training to teachers all over the UK as well as overseas.
He is a PGCE Science lecturer for Essex and Thames SCITT on their Primary teacher training course, and also delivers science and ICT sessions on several other PGCE and B.Ed. courses at primary and secondary level. He delivers training for STEM learning and for several Science Learning Partnerships in the South and East of England. He is a hub leader for PQSM.
Danny has written science textbooks for Heinemann and is one of the authors of Switched on Science for Rising Stars and Reach Out CPD for Twig. If you wish to book him to come to your school and deliver training then please contact him here.