Apr 30, 2026 | news, Science Fix
Ask your class to draw a scientist. Go on, try it. Chances are you’ll get a lot of white men in lab coats, wild hair, bubbling beakers, and the occasional explosion. It’s a well-worn activity, but its results still tell us something important about the messages our...
Apr 29, 2026 | news, Science Fix
Taking on science subject leadership in a primary school is one of those roles that sounds straightforward until you actually sit down and work out what it involves. The job description tends to be vague. The handover is often minimal. And the expectation that you...
Apr 27, 2026 | news, Science Fix
Ask a group of primary teachers whether they have used generative AI in the past year, and the honest answer from most is: yes, occasionally, mostly for planning, and with varying degrees of confidence. That is broadly what I found in this small-scale survey, which...
Apr 23, 2026 | news, Science Fix
Why the Questions You Ask Matter More Than You Think Most primary teachers ask a lot of questions. Research suggests it can be close to 400 a day. But quantity and quality are different things, and in science lessons particularly, the type of question you ask has a...
Apr 23, 2026 | news, Science Fix
AI tools can produce a lesson plan in about 30 seconds. For a primary teacher working through a planning session on a Tuesday evening, that is an appealing proposition. But the speed at which these tools generate content is also part of the problem: they produce...
Apr 14, 2026 | news, Science Fix
Summer term has a way of swallowing science. In my experience working with primary schools, it is one of the subjects most likely to lose timetable time between April and July, and often without anyone making a conscious decision to cut it. It just gets squeezed. That...
