Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction: Coordinating primary school science -- The role of the science coordinator -- Your own development as a science coordinator -- Working with others -- Contributing to school effectiveness -- Interpreting the National Curriculum -- Interpreting experimental and investigative science -- Interpreting life processes and living things, materials and their properties, and physical processes -- Science and the whole curriculum -- Developing the school policy for science -- Policy into practice -- Monitoring and evaluating the science curriculum -- Monitoring and evaluating science teaching -- Monitoring and evaluating science learning -- Managing resources -- Information and resources for science coordinators -- References -- Index.