Exclusive for 2025: Free Thinking, Doing, Talking Science CPD course

Thanks to the generous support of The Oxford Trust, the upcoming 2025 Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTScience) continued professional development course for primary teachers is free to all participants.

TDTScience is a four-day course for primary teachers that enables you to make science more practical, creative and challenging for all pupils, raising pupil’s attainment and self-confidence in science, especially in those with lower ‘science capital’.

When and where

The four-day course will be delivered at the Science Oxford Centre in Headington, Oxford, on

• 3rd February,
• 31st March,
• 19th May, and
• 30th June.

The course runs daily from 9:30am – 3:30pm.

Who is eligible?

• You must be practising as a primary teacher or primary science specialist, in a state school in Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire
• Be either
  • working in an East Oxford state primary school (see list)
  • or a primary school in Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire with an above average percentage (above 24.6%) number of pupils in receipt of free school meals (FSMs)
• Maximum of one teacher per school

If you do not meet these eligibility criteria, you can add your name to a waiting list to be allocated an available place.

Note that while the course is free for 2025 (full price is usually £900), full attendance is required for all four days and a non-attendance charge of £200 per day will apply.

Find out more

For further information and booking contact: [email protected].

What teachers say about the course

“Fantastic course and ultimately life-changing for the recipients…. our children and tomorrow’s scientists.”

“It is the best course I have been on in my 13 years of teaching.”

“Giving time to think, talk and do in science results in highly engaged children with a deeper understanding of key concepts.”

The impact of Thinking, Doing, Talking Science

The TDTScience approach encourages children’s exploration, investigation, discovery and experimentation, and unlocks their excitement and enthusiasm for science. Making lessons more practical, creative and challenging, the TDTScience approach provides opportunities for higher order thinking in science learning.

TDTScience was developed by Science Oxford in partnership with Oxford Brookes University. The ethos behind TDTScience is at the core of all our Science Oxford education programmes and provided the foundation for the development of our Science Oxford Centre in Headington.

Whilst Science Oxford continues to deliver TDTScience courses in our local region of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, under an exclusive licence from The Oxford Trust, the Primary Science Teaching Trust is now the lead national partner for the ongoing delivery of TDTScience courses in other areas of the UK. For details for upcoming courses nationally, contact [email protected] .

For further details about the TDTScience approach, visit TDTScience.org.uk.