This article describes an innovation in primary science ITE, the Primary Science Enhancement Award, following one teacher’s experience of this additional programme, in which she took part duringher initial teacher education at the University of Hertfordshire, and its impact on her early career. The PSEA is run by the Primary Science Teaching Trust, whose Outreach Director Alison Eley summarises the programme’s aims and development in the first part of the article.

The second part records a conversation between Associate Professor David Allen, Teaching and Professional Lead for Primary Science in ITE at the University of Hertfordshire, and Jade Plum, who is now in her second year of teaching at Cromwell Academy in Cambridgeshire.