Aug 24, 2026 New Science Book Out Now Hello Reader Hope the summer break has been going well. Just a quick email from me. When I wrote Science Fix, I was well over the word count and over 150 practical activities had to be cut from the initial draft. The book needed to be shorter, and that was the right decision. But the ideas were good ones, and they have been sitting in a folder ever since. They have now been collated into a new book. 150 Practical Activity Ideas for Primary Science is out...

April 29th 2026 AI in Primary Science: What Research Says A small-scale survey of primary educators in England, carried out earlier this year, offers a useful snapshot of where things currently stand with AI use in primary science teaching. The picture it paints is one of cautious, practical adoption. Most teachers are using AI occasionally rather than daily, mainly for lesson planning, generating retrieval practice questions, and differentiating resources. 90% of the respondents who use AI...

April 22nd 2026 Science Subject Leader's Toolkit If you are a science subject leader, or you work with one, this one is for you. Over the past few months I have been putting together something I wish had existed when I started doing this work. It is a complete toolkit for primary science subject leaders: eight fully formatted Word documents covering every significant part of the role, from auditing your curriculum to reporting to governors. Here is what is in it. Subject Leader Audit Tool — a...