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Southampton Education School

Understanding and Teaching Science for Lower Key Stage 2 Teachers Event

Time:
10:00 - 16:00
Date:
16 July 2014
Venue:
Mathematics and Science Learning Centre Level 3 Building 29 Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Mathematics and Science Learning Centre on 02380 598810 or email mslc@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

This practical course aims to help teachers identify and teach the changes to the primary science curriculum from September 2014 for Lower Key Stage 2.

We are offering separate courses on consecutive days targeted at each Key Stage. Each are suitable for subject leaders or classroom practitioners, including teaching assistants.  The courses are stand-alone, but can also be attended together.

During the day teachers will improve their background knowledge of the new aspects and sample a host of practical ideas and activities to help teach the new areas.

Outcomes

  • Identify changes to the national curriculum for primary science and plan for the changes they need to make in their class
  • Understand the background knowledge for the new bits of the curriculum and know a variety of different ideas and activities to use with children when teaching the new bits
  • Describe the difference between “scientific enquiry” and “working scientifically” and know a host of ideas and activities suitable for their children

Teachers will leave with the ‘Teaching primary science in curriculum 2014’ pack produced by Primarily Science - this can then be freely adapted to suit the needs of individual schools.

Booking a place to attend - for the suite of one day 'understanding and teaching science' courses.

£95 for attendance at one course; £165 for attendance at two courses; £200 for attendance at three courses. This can either be the same person attending all three courses or a teacher combination from the same school and is available to both state maintained and independent schools.

The fee includes a full day of professional development, buffet lunch, refreshments and all course materials.

To book please email mslc@soton.ac.uk or call 02380 598810 stating name, job title, school and any dietary or accessibility requirements.

Speaker information

Debbie Eccles,Primarily Science ,During her teaching career Debbie has held a number of roles including Science Coordinator and Acting Head. Following this she held Local Authority Primary Science Advisory roles in two local authorities. She has contributed to a range of innovative and well received resources, including being involved in the creation of the KS1 enquiry 'Discovery Dog' materials and 'Problem Pup' for children in the foundation stage. Debbie is a member of the North West ASE committee and regularly presents at both regional and national ASE conferences. She is an active member of NAIGS (National Advisers and Inspectors Group for Science) and helped to develop and deliver the primary science programme for the network of Science Learning Centres. She is now an independent consultant working in a partnership known as 'Primarily Science'. She is kept busy producing new primary science resources, providing consultancy, and delivering science courses, school based INSET and conference sessions locally, regionally and nationally.

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