Could Primary School failings in the science curriculum halt interest in Science for the future?
Ofsted warns this could be true; the inspectorate declares that some headteachers are ‘shocked’ by how limited their curriculum is within science. Many primary schools have outlined in their curriculum that science is being side-lined by English and Maths as the more superior subjects.
Before 2009, primary aged children would sit the Key Stage 2 test, however, after 2009 the government decided to scrap it, apparently, in some schools Science has clearly been downgraded as a subject after this date.
The study that shows this data comes just as Ofsted prepare to launch their new framework within schools for new inspections; this new framework will focus more on curriculum. Based on this science study and the new framework coming, it is predicted that schools will not do well under it initially, due to their curriculum not being incorrect capacity, which starts at foundation subjects.
At Rikama Education, we get a huge amount of science teaching positions throughout Kent and South-East London. We completely agree with this news and we believe that something needs to be done to combat the issues the government have. If science is not developed from a young age, students will not do well throughout school in science, therefore they will not want to pursue this in a career meaningless teachers causing a higher national recruitment shortage; even more so than
we are in.
More needs to be done at an earlier age to get students more interested in certain subjects, by increasing the knowledge and interest at a young age; it will increase the chances they will go into that subject as a profession.