Early Years / Primary Projects

Mastering Number - NEW!

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. Read more >>

The Mastering Number Work Group is now closed for this year.

Primary Mastery Readiness

Take a step into the primary Teaching for Mastery Programme!

Mastering maths means pupils of all ages acquiring a deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding of the subject. The phrase ‘teaching for mastery’ describes the elements of classroom practice and school organisation that combine to give pupils the best chances of mastering maths. Read more >>

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Primary Mastery Specialists

Recruitment now closed! Click the button below to express your interest for the next academic year.

Mastery Specialists are classroom practitioners who develop expertise in the mastery approach to teaching maths. Through rigorous and interactive training, they become experts in introducing and embedding mastery. After first developing a mastery approach in their own classrooms, they go on to support colleagues in their own and other schools. Read more >> 

Primary Teaching for Mastery - Development

The Teaching for Mastery Programme is a professional development opportunity designed to support teachers like you to develop best practice in maths in your school. It is suitable for schools interested in implementing a teaching for mastery approach to maths. Read more >>

Primary Teaching for Mastery - Embedding

The strategic goal of the Teaching for Mastery Programme for primary schools is to establish teaching for mastery approaches so that all pupils develop deep knowledge, understanding and confidence. Those who have worked on establishing teaching for mastery in a Development Work Group become part of an Embedding Work Group in their second year. Read more >> 

Primary Teaching for Mastery - Sustaining

This is for all primary schools who have previously been involved in teaching for mastery via a Development or Embedding Work Group, or who are Mastery Specialist schools. It brings together schools across the Maths Hubs Network that are working on continued development to sustain their teaching for mastery approach to mathematics. Read more >> 

Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) - Early Years Teachers

This project is designed to support Early Years teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom. Read more >>

Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) - Primary Teachers

This project is designed to support primary teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom. Read more >>

Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) - Primary Teaching Assistants

This project is designed to support primary teaching assistants in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom. Read more >>

Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) - Primary Early Career Teachers - NEW!

This project is designed to support primary early career teachers (teachers in their first two years of teaching) in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom. We would advise Year 1 Early Career Teachers to focus on training provided by your local Teaching School Hub and we recommend this Work Group for Year 2 Early Career Teachers (RQT’s) Read more >>

Year 5 - 8 Continuity

Work Groups in this project aim to strengthen the transition from primary to secondary school by focusing on curriculum and pedagogical continuity over Years 5 to 8. Following the disruption to education caused by the Covid crisis, this transition is more crucial than ever. Read more >>

Strengthening partnerships with ITT Providers

Now in its fourth year, this project provides opportunities to explore and share current mathematical developments and consider their implications for ITT providers and Maths Hubs in order to help trainees transition into teaching mathematics effectively. Read more >>

PD Lead Development and Accreditation Programme

Recruitment now closed! Click the button below to express your interest for the next academic year.

“One of the main criteria for successful PD is that it stimulates new thinking – this certainly did that for me. Very thought provoking and inspiring”

This programme is for teachers of maths (all phases from Early Years to post-16) who have existing commitments and responsibility for designing, leading and evaluating maths teacher professional development, and the potential to develop further. Read more >>

School Development Lead Programme

This project aims to support mathematics leads whose role is to lead change in a school or group of schools other than their own. Read more >>

The School Development Lead Programme is now closed for this year. Click the button below to register your interest for next year!

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Find out more information on this fully funded Work Group including time commitments >>