I have been given the chance to lead professional development sessions for a secondary heads’ association and so this question has been exercising my mind for a few weeks. I am pondering the possibility that there will be some schools that have made only small adjustments to maths content in their schemes. It seems to […]
Every maths department uses past/practice papers in Y11. Without a careful plan, it can be dull and demoralising for all concerned! Students tell us they feel like failures because full papers are too hard. Teachers tell us it’s hard to ‘get round’ all the students and to maintain interest when they ‘go through’ the questions. […]
We have developed some simple support to improve maths progression in KS1 mental skills and here are our top ten tips to bear in mind when planning for mental maths: Mental maths is at the heart of the KS1 curriculum Every day must provide lots of opportunities for mental maths From time to time, explicitly […]
We used a survey to gather data and feed back to participants We had a great response to our tier of entry survey which meant we could summarise a good-sized set of data and feedback the overall picture to contributors at the end of April. This helped the contributing schools to see if their choices […]
We hope you are celebrating your GCSE results for 2017. It’s been a tricky year to say the least! We’ve been working on development materials based on this year’s GCSE papers. We have ideas to share based on: GCSE 2017 Overlap Question – We took some of the 2017 GCSE papers and identified the […]