Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a range of international contexts.

Content is organized according to the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced and taught in the context of those areas.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Follow Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong’s amazing life from a small town in Ghana to the slopes of the 2010 Winter Olympics, via the Snowdome in Milton Keynes. As the first Ghanaian skier in the Winter Olympics, this fascinating autobiography shows how perseverance and determination can overcome the greatest of challenges.


* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

A young boy watches his granny making rotis in the kitchen. He asks questions about what she is doing and helps her make the rotis. But then he eats many of the rotis and his granny has to make more for their lunch.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Trixie’s hilarious diary, written by acclaimed children’s writer, Ros Asquith, tells of her plans to be a world famous trumpet player, horse rider and first child president of the world. She is also determined to teach animals to read! But when her beloved puppy is sick, everything changes.


Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.