Golden Threads in Science: Taking your Curriculum to the Next Level
Golden Threads in Science: Taking your Curriculum to the Next Level
Alex Neophitou
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As a subject leader, understanding where you can make links across units of learning and year groups is great for helping children to know more and remember more. Golden threads can form a web across your curriculum that binds it together and allows teachers to understand where they can strengthen links to prior and future learning. The best part is that these threads are probably already there - you just need to refine how you signpost them for staff and children.
Within the subject of science, there are the overarching ‘big ideas’ or disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics (alongside 'working scientifically'), and the existing concept threads within the National Curriculum support these. But what happens when those threads only span years 1 to 3, as 'plants' does? Or only appear twice, like the concept of electricity in years 4 and 6? How do we make sure that the children continue to build on and develop their knowledge?
'Golden Threads in Science' helps you identify the more refined concepts within your own science curriculum. It provides some of the theory behind why it’s important to know your ‘golden threads’, with examples of how you can identify them, develop them within your curriculum, and make explicit links between different units of learning.
It also gives insight into how we have developed these ‘golden threads’ within science across the Learning Challenge Curriculum, focusing on concepts such as ‘change’, ‘matter’, ‘form and function’ and ‘patterns’.
If you want to ensure that your curriculum helps children learn and retain scientific knowledge, this resource is for you.
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Product Reference: GTS-EB
Format: eBook
Pages: 139
Publisher: Focus Education (UK) Ltd
Published Date: January 2026
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