This community is for schools who have already engaged in Mastering Number. The maths lead will receive support to make Mastering Number a permanent element of the school curriculum.

The maths lead will engage in an online learning community and have continued access to all teaching materials, recording of central sessions, and sample teaching videos.

What is involved?

Lead teachers (usually the Maths Lead) attend 2 locally-led training sessions focused on supporting embedding the impact of Mastering Number in the second year of delivery.

In addition, to support new resources being launched for Year 3 teachers, the lead teacher will also be invited to two NCETM-led online training sessions (Autumn and Spring terms) with a particular focus on how to support Year 3 teachers to use the teaching materials provided for pupils in KS2.

There is an expectation that schools will continue to provide a daily teaching session for all children of 10 to 15 minutes, in addition to their normal maths lesson.  For Reception, it is expected that the Mastering Number lesson will continue to constitute the main Maths lesson for all the number work for pupils to meet the Early Learning Goals for maths.   

For Year 3 teachers in participating schools, it is expected that they will teach a 10-15 minute fluency session, four days a week, using the new teacing materials provided.

The Lead Teacher will also contribute to an online community to share practice and engage in critical reflection.

What will you learn?

• You and your school leaders will build on the learning of the first year of involvement to embed and sustain the practice in future years
• You will work with colleagues to better understand how the Mastering number resources can enhance teaching.
• Your pupils will show confidence in exploring additive relationships
• Your pupils will make good progress towards the Early Learning Goals and year group expectations.

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