Who can take part?
Starting in Highbridge, Somerset on Thursday 5 December.
The project is for those who teach and/or have responsibility for the curriculum in Years 5-8. Participants may be subject leaders or teachers with responsibility for transition in a school. They need to be supported to try out different tasks with their students and be released to attend three full-day workshops.
What is involved?
Work Groups in this project focus on curriculum and pedagogical continuity over Years 5 to 8. Participants will collaborate with colleagues from across KS2 and KS3, working on mathematical tasks together and reflecting on the resulting activity and learning.
Sessions will take place in KS2 and KS3 settings, offering the chance to see tasks in the context of a classroom. School-based activities between meetings encourage participants to make use of the resources with their own pupils.
What will you learn?
- Your pupils in KS2 and KS3 will demonstrate a positive attitude to maths
- You will make common use of approaches, representations and language across phases
- You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of the curriculum across KS2 and KS3 and the expectations of pupils at the end of each Key Stage
- You and your cross-phase colleagues will collaborate on issues of curriculum and pedagogy as a normal part of your schools’ transition practice
What is the cost?
The Years 5-8 Continuity project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
There is also a flyer summarising the programme. Download it to share with colleagues in your own and other schools.
Checkpoints are diagnostic maths activities to help teachers develop their assessment of students' prior learning for KS3. All Checkpoints and videos of the associated professional development seminars are freely available on the NCETM website. Multiplicative thinking underpins much of secondary maths and will have been introduced in primary school. Do you know how secure multiplicative reasoning is with your Year 7s, or do they default to additive thinking? The latest Checkpoints activities will help you find out.
