This 26 minute interview, with Lorraine Tonks, Principal of Chetwynd Primary Academy in Nottingham, covers all the ways in which, from a school management perspective, teaching for mastery has been embedded throughout the school. The interview mentions Gemma Whiley, the teacher at Chetwynd who is a (Cohort 1) Mastery Specialist now working with six other primary schools in the East Midlands West Maths Hub area.
If you would like to listen to a specific section of this interview only, you can save time by following the links here below:
- Introduction/how the mastery journey began
- Structure of school day
- Changes to classroom layout
- Who children sit next to
- Managing staff development
- How teachers and other staff have filled gaps in their own maths knowledge
- Changes to teachers’ lesson planning
- Catering for the ‘more able’
- Maths classes of 43 pupils
- How the pupils have responded
- How staff are enjoying the change
- Response from parents
- Why more dads came along to our mastery sessions
- Do you still get challenges from parents?
- Concrete evidence that it is working
- Children still having difficulty?
- Managing the time of the Mastery Specialist
[NB: if you want to show just one of these sections at a staff meeting or workshop where there isn’t a secure Internet connection, we suggest you download the whole video, then, once downloaded, move the blue time bar along to the section you’re interested in, and press PLAY.]
If you’d like to join a primary Teaching for Mastery Work Group with your local Maths Hub, you can read about opportunities on our Primary teaching for mastery opportunities page.
