Let’s start with the important stuff. Everything referred to in this blog will only come into effect from the start of the 2028/29 academic year and the revised national curriculum proposed by the Curriculum and Assessment Review, and confirmed in the Government’s response, will not be published until the spring term of 2027/28. So, nothing changes for almost three full academic years and we won’t know exactly what changes will need to be implemented until the spring term of 2027. The Review...

In Finding the optimum: the science subject report , Ofsted reported that the biggest problem with curriculum design was the identification and sequencing of the disciplinary knowledge (or working scientifically skills). This was not an enormous surprise because identifying and sequencing the disciplinary knowledge included in the National Curriculum is difficult for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it is hard for schools to translate the working scientifically statements in the...

EEF has just published, Improving Primary Science, its guidance report on how to improve science teaching for those teaching five to...