Key Facts

Course Title: Planning for Teaching and Learning in the New Science Curriculum
Start Date: 06 November 2013
Cost: £150
Duration: 1 day - 9:15am to 4pm
Course Code: KC13711
Audience: Primary
Venue: Keele Science Learning Centre
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Overview

This course aims to help teachers identify the changes to the primary science curriculum from September 2014 with guidance on implementing the changes in their schools. During the day teachers will have the opportunity to evaluate the alternative approaches when moving from the old to the new, to improve their background knowledge of the new aspects while sampling a host of practical ideas and activities to help with the teaching of these new areas.

Dates and venue

Start Date: 06 November 2013

Venue: Keele Science Learning Centre

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify changes to the national curriculum for primary science and plan for the changes they need to make
  • Understand the background knowledge for the new aspects of the curriculum and know a variety of ideas and activities to use with children.
  • Describe the difference between  “scientific enquiry” and “working scientifically” and have ideas to help bring about any necessary changes

Tutor

Primarily Science

Primarily Science is an independent partnership consultancy, see their website for details.

Pre Course Task

The pre-course task is to complete the Intended Learning Form of the Impact Toolkit.

Teachers will leave with the “Planning primary science in curriculum 2014” pack produced by Primarily Science designed to save hours of work for busy science subject leaders.

This can then be freely adapted to suit the needs of individual schools.

Contacts

Keele Science Learning Centre

Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG

T: 01782 734 429
E: kslc@keele.ac.uk
F: 01782 734 430

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