Taking on science subject leadership in a primary school is one of those roles that sounds straightforward until you actually sit down and work out what it involves. The job description tends to be vague. The handover is often minimal. And the expectation that you...
Ask a group of primary teachers whether they have used generative AI in the past year, and the honest answer from most is: yes, occasionally, mostly for planning, and with varying degrees of confidence. That is broadly what I found in this small-scale survey, which...
Why the Questions You Ask Matter More Than You Think Most primary teachers ask a lot of questions. Research suggests it can be close to 400 a day. But quantity and quality are different things, and in science lessons particularly, the type of question you ask has a...
Summer term has a way of swallowing science. In my experience working with primary schools, it is one of the subjects most likely to lose timetable time between April and July, and often without anyone making a conscious decision to cut it. It just gets squeezed. That...
You already do a lot of this intuitively. You probably chunk your explanations, you ask children to recap last week’s work, and you use diagrams to support your talk. But understanding the science behind why those things work can help you do them more...
