This study was designed to investigate the impact of bringing the world of work and real life contexts into the classroom. Upper phase aimed to assess the effectiveness of methods to help pupils make connections. Linked to this, there also was a focus on making links from prior to new knowledge and understanding. In Ofsted’s 2019 review, the importance of knowing more and remembering more was a new element – this is now an integral part of their new framework. This framework is then used to assess school’s usefulness in delivering a meaningful and purposeful curriculum.
Each teacher included information about a relevant scientist to the area of study to the beginning of each of their science lessons for the entirety of a topic, this happened for two, six week half terms. At the end of the topic, the classes completed an end of unit evaluation, whereby they answered an essay question. This is usual practice and class teachers use it as a summative assessment. Five target children from six classes were chosen to provide data, these children were randomly selected.