NW Maths Hub 3 would like to invite all schools from across the NW region to the following: Mixed age group Mastery Training Outcome of the training: Know how to teach every maths concept on your part of the curriculum effectively for mastery to your mixed-year class. Rationale: Teachers of mixed year classes struggle to…
Dear Standards and Testing Agency. I wish to reopen my enquiry reference number 181119-000054 because you have not responded to my concern. The purpose of the rest of this email is to explain my concern about the assessment framework for the Multiplication Tables Check more clearly. Best practice for teaching tables in primary schools is…
The specification for the MultiplicationTables Check (MTC) (which will be statutory from 2020 – i.e. for the current year 3) was released yesterday and can be found here. Key headlines: What’s in the test? Multiplication will be tested, division will not. 0 x and 1 x tables will not be tested – so 121 multiplications…
Over the last four years I’ve discovered many unique insights into primary maths teaching from (and with) the wonderful teachers I’ve worked with in Cumbria. It’s now time to feed this new understanding of primary maths teaching back into the mainstream world of maths education. I’ll therefore be running courses outside of Cumbria (starting with…
Videos from the Teacher Inquiry Conference at the University of Cumbria yesterday:
I will be presenting at this conference and look forward to catching up with many of you then. The title of my workshop is “What is the role of simple apparatus within Cumbrian Mastery Approaches to Primary Mathematics?” The link to the conference is here: https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/about/events/university-events/carlisle—fusehill-street/led-research-centre-teacher-inquiry-conference-.php
Authentic Maths primary maths training has thrived. The first thing I must do here is to express my deepest and most sincere thanks to every headteacher who has invested their money and time in this training and every teacher and teaching assistant who has contributed to it. I don’t know how to put into words…
Staff from St. Mary’s Harrington preparing to ‘Nail the Table Check’. Robert Ferguson Primary Carlisle, St. Patrick’s RC Primary Workington and St. Mary’s RC Primary Harrington have completed training and have action plans in place to ensure their children nail the new ‘Tables Check’ when it becomes compulary for year…
Primary Numeracy Co-ordinators Update – Winter 2017/18 The government report ‘Primary assessment in England’ September 2017 lays out the following changes to primary mathematics: At EYFS: Curriculum: The Early Learning Goals will be aligned with the KS1 curriculum – particularly in literacy and mathematics. Work will be undertaken to improve the teaching of numeracy. The…
I’ve been busy! Please accept my apologies for the lack of posts recently. I’ve been lucky enough to have work come my way without having to chase it so I’ve been concentrating on working rather than blogging and marketing. I’ve been working with teachers and students in Cumbria but I’ve also been further afield running…