Secondary & Post-16 science CPD courses
We provide expert support across all areas of science teaching, tailored to every stage of your career – from early career teachers to experienced senior leaders and heads of department.
Designed with your time in mind, our courses are impactful, flexible and informed by years of direct experience and robust evidence.
Whether you're looking to deepen your subject knowledge, explore new pedagogical approaches, enhance practical work, or strengthen leadership skills – explore a wide range of courses to find the CPD that best fits your goals and needs.
Leadership and AI
Gain the strategies and techniques you will need to be successful by looking at key areas of leading your own subject.
Become a successful head of science by providing strategies to lead and manage science in your school and work with and support your science team.
An opportunity for Heads of Science to embed the skills and strategies needed to lead a successful science department.
Work towards balancing different assessment methods that are manageable, accessible and allow opportunities for feedback and improvement.
Develop the skills to both audit, plan and implement coherent practical health and safety in your science department.
Discover how Generative AI – like ChatGPT and CoPilot – can help you adapt teaching and improve assessment while reducing workload.
Discover how AI and other digital tools are saving time and supporting collaboration in the classroom.
This course is designed to provide the strategies and techniques you need to lead a science department.
Find out what AI can do for you, best practice when using AI and how to maximise the tech you already use to minimise workload.
Develop your confidence as you learn the fundamentals of effective health and safety for science practicals.
General sciences
Support your students to reach grade 9 in GCSE science by exploring key strategies and activities in York.
Support your students to reach grade 9 in GCSE science by exploring strategies and activities in our live online course.
Discover techniques to support students with lower prior attainment by helping them to aim for grades 4 and 5.
Gain the tools to build strong routines and classroom management techniques to help prevent behaviour incidents.
Explore ways of making sure practical work takes place in settings where money, staffing, safety and resourcing can all impact on the quality of your practical work.
Improve your subject knowledge across all key stage 3 science subjects and increase your confidence in teaching the subjects.
Discover the key principles to teach key stage 3 science concepts through practical work and stimulating teaching and learning activities.
Mapping and developing climate science and air quality science in the secondary curriculum.
Consider what makes science difficult for SEND students and how effective use of practical work and a range of learning activities can provide better access.
Receive in-depth support around practical work, dealing with misconceptions and planning for success in your first term's teaching.
Invigorate your science teaching with a packed programme to support you at whatever stage of your career you are at.
Hear what is going on in the world of science education and how it impacts you as a leader.
Maths in science
Explore techniques to help students take their learnings from maths lessons in order to help them understand the maths required to succeed in science.
Explore techniques and strategies to support low prior attaining students – help them apply mathematical skills successfully within a science context.
Explore techniques to help students take their learnings from maths lessons in order to help them understand the maths required to succeed.
Gain a clear understanding of the Core Maths specification, how it can link to science, and develop successful strategies.
Discover best practice when it comes to implementing technology as part of your science teaching.
Biology
Develop a broader understanding of concepts in order to improve student outcomes in GCSE biology.
Improve student progress in key stage 4 biology and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
This course will support you with effective teaching and learning at A level in biology.
Develop engaging approaches to core topics and discuss advances in biology - putting the subject content into context
Improve your understanding and teaching of mathematics topics required for A level biology.
Chemistry
Providing teachers with the confidence to teach chemistry at key stage 3 and key stage 4.
Focus on the areas of chemistry that will most impact students. Investigate subject specific language, common misconceptions and mistakes they make.
Focus on how to improve student progress in key stage 4 chemistry and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
Develop engaging approaches to core topics, discussing advances in chemistry which can put the subject content into practical contexts.
Investigate common student misconceptions and practical techniques, with lots of hands-on practice to hone your approach to student learning.
Develop effective teaching and learning of year 12 content in A level chemistry.
Develop effective teaching and learning of year 13 content in A level chemistry.
Improve your understanding and teaching of mathematics topics required for A level chemistry.
Physics
Not a physics specialist? Need to build your confidence and impact in teaching physics? This is the course for you.
Develop a broader understanding of concepts in order to improve student outcomes in GCSE physics.
Focus on how to improve student progress in KS4 physics and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
Develop engaging approaches to core topics, discuss advances in physics and put your subject content into practical contexts.
Boost your confidence and understanding in teaching physics at A level – even for teachers with a physics background.
Subject Knowledge for Physics Teaching
Subject Knowledge for Physics Teaching (SKPT) courses are free blended learning CPD for key stage 3 and key stage 4 teachers teaching physics without a physics specialism.
Modules are available covering topics including: Atomic physics, Electricity, Energy, Forces, Matter & Space and Waves. They are being held at 32 hubs across England with opportunities to join us for residential courses, held at the National STEM Learning Centre in York.
Self-paced online secondary and post-16 science CPD courses
With these courses you receive the same high-quality teacher training but you can access it on-demand at anytime, anywhere. Our self-paced online courses are specially designed with your time in mind, delivering courses that are impactful, flexible and informed by years of direct experience and robust evidence.
SEND
Discover how you can better meet the needs of your autistic learners in their science lessons.
Explore a range of practical strategies to support learners with ADHD in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Explore a range of practical strategies to support dyslexic learners and understand what their barriers are to learning.
This short online course will support you in meeting the needs of your sight-impaired learners within your science lessons through practical strategies.
Exam courses
Explore how to analyse both internal and external examination data to improve student performance.
Poor revision contributes to exam anxiety and low outcomes. Support your students to implement effective revision strategies.
This course explores a range of strategies to support students to answer 6 mark questions.
Ensure your students are better prepared for their exams by gaining teaching strategies ready to implement into learning and lesson planning from the start of the year.
Curriculum design
Design your scheme of learning and learn how to build an improved science curriculum.
CPD for Technicians
Technicians play a crucial role in science education, and your access to meaningful development shouldn’t be limited by time or location! That’s why we provide a rich variety of flexible, high-quality training – rooted in real classroom experience and tailored to the needs of lab-based work.
Whether you're new to the role or looking to expand your expertise, these courses offer practical support that helps you work more confidently, safely, and effectively in your school.
