The Teaching for Mastery Work Groups bring together schools who have established approaches across their school and provides support on key elements plus some elective sessions to suit requirements

Who can take part?

Schools will have previously completed their Developing /Embedding years (or Introductory years).  Participating schools must show strong commitment from their leadership for sustaining mastery approaches, and for most teachers to have already started using these.

Each school will have a lead participant in the Work Group, normally the Maths Lead. At different points in the year, other teachers may also be able to participate.

What is involved?

Teaching for Mastery Work Groups are an ongoing form of support where schools can focus on continued improvement, consistency and refinement of teaching for mastery. Teachers, maths leads and headteachers are all involved, striving to support teachers, and looking at collaborative planning and subject knowledge development. The expectation is that schools remain in this Work Group for many years to come.

The time requirement for teachers is usually one half day per term (3 days across the whole year) where participants work with a group of local schools, supported by a Primary Mastery Specialist, collaborating to explore effective leadership, observe live teaching for mastery, implement aspects such as lesson design and refine systems to maximise pupil impact.

In addition, schools have the opportunity to attend bespoke topic sessions either online or face-to-face.

 

What will you learn?

You and your school will:

• Enhance your mathematical subject knowledge, emphasising key areas of maths
• Plan, teach and reflect on lessons with a mastery approach
• Understand the school-wide structures which enable staff to develop mastery approaches
• Along with your school leaders, will establish systems to support ongoing professional learning within school

 

What is the cost?

The Primary Teaching for Mastery Work Groups are fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so provided completely free to participating state-funded schools.

What should I do next?

If you are an existing Sustaining Teaching for Mastery school, your Mastery Specialist will advise you on next steps.  

If your school has paused participation on this programme for a year or two and wish to re-join, please contact Charlie Dowse (charlie.dowse@solentmathshub.org.uk) about re-joining the programme.