Primary Work Groups
2024-2025 Projects
Primary Teaching
for Mastery Development
Summary
This Development Work Group is part of the continuing programme to develop teaching for mastery in maths in primary schools.
Schools who participated in the Development Work Group will then join the Embedding Work Group for their second year. This will allow them to continue building on their existing subject knowledge and scaling up teaching for mastery approaches. Each Work Group is led by a trained primary Mastery Specialist and meet regularly to plan, observe and discuss teaching for mastery.
Time Commitment: 6 half day TRGs and 3 school visits
Suitable for: Primary
Fully
Booked
Primary Teaching
for Mastery Embedding
Summary
This Embedding project is part of the continuing programme to embed teaching for mastery in maths in primary schools.
Schools who participated in the Development Work Group will join this Embedding Work Group for their second year. This will allow them to continue building on their existing subject knowledge and scaling up teaching for mastery approaches. Each Work Group is led by a trained primary Mastery Specialist and meet regularly to plan, observe and discuss teaching for mastery.
Time Commitment: 6 half day TRGs and 1 school visit
Suitable for: Primary
Primary Teaching
for Mastery Sustaining
Summary
This project is for schools who have been through development and embedding to continue their journey. This Work Group will provide the opportunity for schools to sustain, improve and refine primary teaching for mastery in maths in their schools. Each Work Group is led by a trained primary Mastery Specialist and meet regularly to plan, observe and discuss teaching for mastery.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 6 half day TRGs
Suitable for: Primary
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics -
Early Years Teachers
Summary
This programme supports Early Years teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics to Reception pupils, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 4 full days
Suitable for: Early Years
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics -
Primary Teachers
Summary
This programme supports primary teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, building on the primary maths National Curriculum to develop distinct pedagogical decision-making which impacts on classroom practice.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 4 full days
Suitable for: Primary
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics -
Primary Teaching Assistants
Summary
This programme is designed for primary teaching assistants who are supporting maths, and who would like to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths. This may be particularly relevant for new TAs or TAs that have not received maths-specific training.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 4 full days
Suitable for: Early Years, Primary
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics -
Primary Early Career Teachers - Phase 1
Summary
This project is designed to support primary early career teachers (teachers in their first or second year of teaching) in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 4 full days
Suitable for: Primary
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics -
Primary Early Career Teachers - Phase 2
Summary
This project is designed to support primary early career teachers who have engaged with Phase 1 before engaging with this phase in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom.
Time Commitment: equivalent of 4 full days
Suitable for: Primary
Mastering Number at KS2
Summary
The project offers schools that are involved in Mastering Number at Reception and KS1, and are also in a Sustaining Work Group, the opportunity for teachers to develop the knowledge and skills to secure good multiplicative number sense and automaticity in times tables. The programme will focus on Years 4 and 5. Junior schools who are in a Sustaining Work Group may also apply.
Time Commitment: 6 sessions
Suitable for: Primary
Mastering Number (Embedding the Impact Community)
Summary
The community is for schools that have previously engaged in Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 and are engaged in a Teaching for Mastery programme. One nominated Lead Teacher will act as a Mastering Number Lead to engage in the Community and will receive support to make Mastering Number a permanent element of the school curriculum.
Suitable for: Early Years, Primary
Mastering Number
at Reception & KS1
Applications have now closed
Summary
This project aims to secure firm foundations in the development of good number sense for all children from Reception through to Year 1 and Year 2. The aim over time is that children will leave KS1 with fluency in calculation and a confidence and flexibility with number. Attention will be given to key knowledge and understanding needed in Reception classes, and progression through KS1 to support success in the future.
Time Commitment: 6 sessions
Suitable for: Early Years, Primary