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
New and aspiring heads of science
Face to face
Gain the strategies and techniques you will need to be successful by looking at key areas of leading your own subject.
Improving your science leadership
NEW! Residential
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.
Leading secondary science
Live online
An opportunity for Heads of Science to embed the skills and strategies needed to lead a successful science department.
Leading assessment in secondary science
Face to face
Work towards balancing different assessment methods that are manageable, accessible and allow opportunities for feedback and improvement.
Leading health and safety in science departments
Residential
Develop the skills to both audit, plan and implement coherent practical health and safety in your science department.
Unlocking AI potential for teachers
Live online
Discover how Generative AI – like ChatGPT and CoPilot – can help you adapt teaching and improve assessment while reducing workload.
How to use AI to reduce teacher workload
Live online
Discover how AI and other digital tools are saving time and supporting collaboration in the classroom.
Developing effective leadership in secondary science
Residential
This course is designed to provide the strategies and techniques you need to lead a science department.
STEM Digital conference: Tech and AI to tackle teacher workload
Face to face
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.
Effective Health and Safety for Early Career Teachers
Live online
Develop your confidence as you learn the fundamentals of effective health and safety for science practicals.
General sciences
Reaching for grade 9
Residential
Support your students to reach grade 9 in GCSE science by exploring key strategies and activities in York.
Reaching for grade 9
Live online
Support your students to reach grade 9 in GCSE science by exploring strategies and activities in our live online course.
Aiming for grade 5
Live online
Discover techniques to support students with lower prior attainment by helping them to aim for grades 4 and 5.
Managing the practical classroom
Face to face
Gain the tools to build strong routines and classroom management techniques to help prevent behaviour incidents.
Practical work in challenging settings
Face to face
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.
Secondary science for non-scientists
Residential
Improve your subject knowledge across all key stage 3 science subjects and increase your confidence in teaching the subjects.
KS3 science for non-scientists
Live online
Discover the key principles to teach key stage 3 science concepts through practical work and stimulating teaching and learning activities.
Tackling climate change in secondary science
Live online
Mapping and developing climate science and air quality science in the secondary curriculum.
Supporting students with SEND in secondary science
Residential
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.
Summer School for ECTs teaching 11-16 science
Residential
Receive in-depth support around practical work, dealing with misconceptions and planning for success in your first term's teaching.
National Secondary Science Conference
Face to face
Invigorate your science teaching with a packed programme to support you at whatever stage of your career you are at.
Secondary science network meeting
Live online
Hear what is going on in the world of science education and how it impacts you as a leader.
Maths in science
Developing shared approaches between science and maths
Residential
Explore techniques to help students take their learnings from maths lessons in order to help them understand the maths required to succeed in science.
Maths to support low attainers in science
Live online
Explore techniques and strategies to support low prior attaining students – help them apply mathematical skills successfully within a science context.
Maths in GCSE Science
Live online
Explore techniques to help students take their learnings from maths lessons in order to help them understand the maths required to succeed.
Core Maths for teachers of science
Live online
Gain a clear understanding of the Core Maths specification, how it can link to science, and develop successful strategies.
Using technology to teach mathematics for science
Live online
Discover best practice when it comes to implementing technology as part of your science teaching.
Biology
Teaching to succeed at GCSE biology
Residential
Develop a broader understanding of concepts in order to improve student outcomes in GCSE biology.
New to teaching GCSE biology
Face to face
Improve student progress in key stage 4 biology and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
New to A level biology
Residential
This course will support you with effective teaching and learning at A level in biology.
Established teachers of A level biology
Residential
Develop engaging approaches to core topics and discuss advances in biology - putting the subject content into context
Maths for A level biology
Face to face
Improve your understanding and teaching of mathematics topics required for A level biology.
Chemistry
Chemistry for non-specialists
Residential
Providing teachers with the confidence to teach chemistry at key stage 3 and key stage 4.
Teaching to succeed at GCSE Chemistry
Residential
Focus on the areas of chemistry that will most impact students. Investigate subject specific language, common misconceptions and mistakes they make.
New to teaching GCSE Chemistry
Face to face
Focus on how to improve student progress in key stage 4 chemistry and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
Established teachers of A level chemistry
Residential
Develop engaging approaches to core topics, discussing advances in chemistry which can put the subject content into practical contexts.
New to A level chemistry
Residential
Investigate common student misconceptions and practical techniques, with lots of hands-on practice to hone your approach to student learning.
New to teaching A level chemistry (Year 12 only)
Residential
Develop effective teaching and learning of year 12 content in A level chemistry.
New to teaching A Level Chemistry (Year 13 Only)
Residential
Develop effective teaching and learning of year 13 content in A level chemistry.
Maths for A level chemistry
Residential
Improve your understanding and teaching of mathematics topics required for A level chemistry.
Physics
Physics for non-specialists
Residential
Not a physics specialist? Need to build your confidence and impact in teaching physics? This is the course for you.
Teaching to succeed at GCSE physics
Residential
Develop a broader understanding of concepts in order to improve student outcomes in GCSE physics.
New to teaching GCSE physics
Face to face
Focus on how to improve student progress in KS4 physics and bring together the learning of key concepts with practical work effectively.
Established teachers of A level physics
Residential
Develop engaging approaches to core topics, discuss advances in physics and put your subject content into practical contexts.
New to A level physics
Boost your confidence and understanding in teaching physics at A level – even for teachers with a physics background.
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
Supporting autistic learners in science
Self-paced online
Discover how you can better meet the needs of your autistic learners in their science lessons.
Supporting learners with ADHD in science
Self-paced online
Explore a range of practical strategies to support learners with ADHD in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Supporting learners with dyslexia in science
Self-paced online
Explore a range of practical strategies to support dyslexic learners and understand what their barriers are to learning.
Supporting sight impaired learners in science
Self-paced online
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
Using exam analysis to improve student performance
Self-paced online
Explore how to analyse both internal and external examination data to improve student performance.
Revising effectively for science GCSE exams
Self-paced online
Poor revision contributes to exam anxiety and low outcomes. Support your students to implement effective revision strategies.
Preparing students for 6-mark exam questions in science
Self-paced online
This course explores a range of strategies to support students to answer 6 mark questions.
Supporting students to answer GCSE exam questions in science
Self-paced online
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
Curriculum design for secondary school science
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.
