Why Cumbrian primary teachers are world-leading in teaching maths for mastery

Mixed Year 1/2, Mixed Year 3/4, Mixed Year 5/6, Reception Class and Year 1 term-to-page maths planning guides are now available for free download in the Expert Primary Maths Teacher Planning group on Facebook. Year 2 will be uploaded tomorrow (Thurs 15th August) and Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 will follow in the next…

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…

What a year! Feeling incredibly lucky and privileged to have worked with 250 wonderful teachers and teaching assistants.  Thank you so much all of you. All teachers are guaranteed to be able to teach every maths concept on their part of the curriculum effectively to a fully mixed ability class. Picture with the wonderful Amy…

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…

Complaint sent Wed 15th June 2022 All children in year 4 in England are being required to take a new compulsory exam just now. This is a truly horrific exam that was never consulted and is entirely the fetish of one minister. Nobody who knows anything about maths teaching at all is supporting it. It…

What should done during a 5-year parliamentary term to improve primary maths SATs? This document is not formal set of proposal.  It is a ‘work in progress’ which captures some apparently sensible suggestions, so that discussions and comments can start from what’s already been suggested rather than from scratch.  I expect that there will be further versions…