blen’s interest in SLL is focused on general literacy development and scientific language and literacy during the formative period of KS2 to KS3 (primary and lower secondary). An annual conference is held in the spring/summer term bringing together science and literacy teachers, science advisers/literacy advisers and researchers to deliver a programme of up-to-date policy and practice.

The published occasional paper is professor Wynne Harlem’s Talking Science: Language, learning and Understanding Science.

blen conducted a highly commended school-based project in KS2-KS3, on pupils’ attitude to science based on their KS2 and 3 learning experience both within and outside school for Jack Hunt School, Peterborough