Securing Foundations at Year 7 Work Group
This Work Group will help students build upon foundational knowledge from Key Stage 1 and 2 and prepares students for more advanced mathematical concepts in KS3.
Discover ways to help students who did not meet age-related expectations in maths at the end of KS2 and are struggling to access KS3 curriculum.
This is done by securing foundation content at a deeper level which would have been previously taught in KS1 and 2. This will then allow for rapid progress to close the gap and enable students to access and be successful with the KS3 curriculum.
Participants will gain access to high-quality resources designed by experts in pedagogy and expectations of maths at both KS2 and KS3.
What are the benefits of this programme?
- Your students will make progress so they are better able to access a suitable KS3 curriculum.
- You will develop your pedagogic and content knowledge of KS1 and KS2 maths.
- You will consider approaches which support all students to reason mathematically.
- You will work as part of a professional learning community to reflect on approaches, deepen your understanding about effective approaches, and refine your practice.
What is involved?
Participants will attend the equivalent of three full days of workshops, and will complete school-based tasks between sessions. Workshops will be a blend of national and local sessions, and online and in-person provision.
Schools will receive resources which include classroom-facing slides and teacher guidance materials to support teachers and focus on the foundations of mathematical understanding.
Who can take part?
A pair of participants from each school will join a Work Group; the pair should comprise at least one teacher with QTS, but may include a teaching assistant or similar. This is to support with embedding and fidelity of the resources use throughout the department over the longer term.
Our Developing Fluency with Multiplicative Reasoning at KS3 Work Group fully complements this programme allowing students to develop a deep and connected understanding of the maths they are learning, be successful and thrive!
To sign up for our Securing Foundations at Year 7 Work Group, please fill in the short form at the bottom of this page.
If you would like to find out more about our Developing Fluency with Multiplicative Reasoning at KS3 Work Group too, please click here!
Bridging the gap: ensuring that all students can succeed in KS3 maths
Click Here to read about how one North East secondary school is ‘Securing Foundations at Year 7’, with a new Maths Hubs project aimed at supporting all students to thrive in the maths classroom