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🌟 Exceptional GCSE Science Teaching – Raising Attainment and Engagement

In the context of Ofsted’s 2025 framework and the continued importance of Progress 8 as a measure of school performance, delivering high-impact GCSE science teaching is more critical than ever. This CPD course supports science departments in designing and implementing a curriculum that not only meets Ofsted’s expectations for coherence, inclusion, and subject-specific pedagogy, but also drives measurable improvements in pupil progress and attainment. Whether your focus is combined or triple science, this training equips teachers with practical strategies to raise outcomes, close gaps, and strengthen your school’s Progress 8 score through exceptional science provision.

🧭 INSET Outline

🎯 Curriculum and Teaching of GCSE Science

  • Design a KS4 science curriculum that is coherent, ambitious, and inclusive, with clear progression from KS3.
  • Explore what exceptional implementation looks like in science, including the use of practical work, mathematical fluency, and scientific enquiry.
  • Apply research-informed strategies to improve conceptual understanding, retention, and application across biology, chemistry, and physics.

📈 Achievement and Progress

  • Use assessment, feedback, and pupil voice to evidence rapid and sustained progress.
  • Develop strategies to close gaps in attainment, particularly for disadvantaged learners and those with SEND.
  • Embed exam literacy, command word fluency, and higher-order thinking skills to improve outcomes.

🧠 Scientific Literacy and Cultural Capital

  • Improve pupils’ ability to communicate scientific ideas clearly and confidently in written and verbal formats.
  • Increase engagement and uptake in post-16 STEM pathways by building science capital.
  • Use real-world contexts and careers education to make science relevant and aspirational.

🛠️ GCSE Science: Pedagogy and Practice

  • Enhance teaching through effective questioning, adaptive teaching, and growth mindset strategies.
  • Use technology meaningfully in the science lab and classroom to support learning and assessment.
  • Plan targeted interventions using data and diagnostic tools to support borderline and high-achieving students.

🔍 Inspection Readiness

  • Understand how Ofsted evaluates GCSE science under the new framework.
  • Prepare evidence of impact across curriculum areas, safeguarding, and inclusion.
  • Align departmental practice with national expectations and subject reports.

👥 Who is this INSET for?

  • GCSE Science Teachers
  • Heads of Science / Subject Leads
  • KS4 Coordinators
  • Senior Leaders overseeing curriculum and quality
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    🗣️ Testimonial

    “This CPD helped us refine our GCSE science curriculum and teaching strategies in line with the new Ofsted framework. The focus on impact, inclusion, and subject-specific pedagogy was exactly what our department needed.”
    — Head of Science, Secondary Academy

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