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The four training days of TDTScience are spread out across a school year and the training is delivered by primary science experts, who have completed a TDTScience ‘Train-the-Trainer’ programme. Schools are encouraged to send more than one teacher to a course to maximise the positive impact in school. TDTScience strategies are exemplified through a different curriculum content area each day and ‘gap tasks’ in between training days embed practice and enable peer-support. Key course features include:

• Develop all children’s knowledge and understanding through higher order thinking skills
• Activities to use in the classroom straight away
• Practical science focused for knowledge and skills development
• Focused recording for effective assessment
• Strategies to support all children in progression across the curriculum
• Applicable to all primary year groups and National Curriculum topics

The diagram gives an overview of the TDTScience ethos. The goal at the heart of the approach is to improve the level of conceptual challenge in primary science by the encouragement of children’s higher order thinking; exploiting every opportunity to infuse thinking throughout the delivery of the normal science curriculum. The Bright Ideas Time is a dedicated discussion slot in every lesson, using a range of inclusive prompts to support children thinking and talking. The Education Endowment Foundation’s 2023 Improving Primary Science guidance report draws on TDTScience strategies.