Last year the Gatsby Charitable Foundation launched Good Practical Science, a report outlining 10 benchmarks for secondary schools to transform practical science education.
The report, led by Sir John Holman, a chemist, former headteacher and senior advisor to the Gatsby Foundation, provides recommendations to help schools achieve world-class science education.
As well as looking internationally to countries known to provide good science education, including Finland, Germany and Singapore, the report also looked at more than 400 secondary schools in England to gauge the status of practical science here.
Those visits included a trip to my school, All Saints RC School in York, which was praised as an example of best practice for the role played by extended investigative projects in year 12.
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