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Overview
What this guidance report covers
This guidance report provides six practical recommendations, underpinned by high-quality evidence, about how to make meaningful improvements to primary science teaching.
It is designed to help practitioners build on their existing expertise, with a view to supporting them in closing the attainment gap and cultivating positive pupil attitudes towards science.
While primary science has the potential to be broad ranging in scope, for this guidance report, we focus on science as defined in the national curriculum, which includes the teaching of scientific knowledge and concepts across biology, chemistry, and physics; the nature, processes, methods, and skills of science to answer scientific questions; and the application and implications of science in the wider world, presently and in the future.