The fundamental issue in teaching science effectively is that, to develop the skills of thinking and problem-solving, which are difficult to learn, pupils need to undertake regular, challenging and focused practical science throughout their primary and secondary schooling.
However, in 2009, science was removed from the key stage 2 statutory assessments schedule, largely because it had unfortunately led to children simply being taught a long list of facts that they were encouraged to regurgitate – this is not science!
As the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman remarked, science is about how to think and solve problems, not learn all the names of birds and trees.
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