Remembering information is a key element in everyday life, whether it be remembering the directions to the new restaurant you want to try or new information learnt in the classroom. Children between the ages of 5 to 7-years-old transition from predominantly using reactive cognitive control strategies to engaging proactive cognitive control strategies, where goal relevant information is maintained. This transition helps explain why we see working memory ability improve across childhood, as children can more accurately and quickly recall information. This study aimed to investigate whether children aged 6 to 11-years-old consistently used proactive cognitive control strategies across two tasks: cued task switching and backwards Corsi. Eye tracking methods were used to monitor gaze patterns to provide additional indicators of proactive control beyond any behavioural advantages such as faster responses when cues were utilized, or increased recall. The results show that children do not consistently apply proactive cognitive control strategies across both tasks and that the use of proactive cognitive control in a cued task switching task is not clearly associated with higher backwards spatial span. This suggests that whilst children in this age group should predominantly be using proactive cognitive strategies to more successfully complete tasks, they do not consistently apply these strategies when remembering information and instead appear to be using different strategies across tasks, possibly because they are not yet capable of effectively using these strategies.