Creating an ambitious primary science curriculum helps ensure children better understand the world around them and sets them up for their future studies at secondary school. But if it is too challenging, it can have the opposite effect. This is why foundational knowledge must be prioritised over extra content for science success.
In a report entitled, The 10 key issues with children’s learning in primary science in England (Bianchi et al, 2021), one of the 10 issues identified was that children’s learning in science can be superficial and lack depth. An observation made in relation to this was that sometimes there was an “overload of inappropriately selected science”.
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