1 Spring Term 2021 Newsleer 4 March 2021 Join the BBO Maths Hub by emailing [email protected]Follow us on Twitter @BBOMathsHub Maths Hub Lead - Abha Miller [email protected]News from our Maths Hub Lead, Abha Miller: Dear All, It is nearly a year since schools closed last year for the first me on 20 March 2020, and so much has changed. We are now experts at managing Covid 19 tesng centres, social distancing , remote learning and teaching and online meengs! I want to take this opportunity to thank all teachers involved with BBO in their relentless pursuit to upskill their knowledge and share this with the wider community. We are also very lucky to have Anne Watson as our chair. She has truly ‘got our back’, and writes an arcle on page 2 of this newsleer. We are always listening, and connually adapng. If you have any great ideas for any mathemacs innovaon projects please do get in touch. While we wait to hear what final guidelines for teacher assessed grades will look like, I hope you manage to have an eggcellent Easter aſter an eggraordinary year ! Keep smiling and stay safe!
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Spring Term 2021
Newsletter 4 March 2021
Join the BBO Maths Hub by emailing [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @BBOMathsHub
The BBO Maths Hub is hosting an online event on Wednesday 24th March at 4pm where we will discuss
and explore the resources together. This will give participants the opportunity to clarify how the
documents could be used to support your curriculum prioritisation and to share thoughts and ideas with
Maths Leads and SLT members from other schools, facilitated by the BBO Maths Hub.
Please use this link to reserve your place now:
Wednesday 24 March 4.00pm—5.00pm Book here
Primary Open Events
Would you like to hear more about the benefits of joining a Work Group?
Come and join us on line to hear more about what we have to offer. You will also have the opportunity to
hear directly from our Headteacher Advocate, Julie Hiddleston, on the impact Teaching for Mastery has
had on her schools. Book now to secure your place!
Tuesday 20 April 4.00pm—5.30pm Book here
Tuesday 27 April 4.00pm—5.30pm Book here
Primary Sustaining Mastery—Headteachers’ Work Shops
The BBO Maths Hub is offering an exciting opportunity for all Headteachers of schools in our Sustaining Mastery programme to join a Work Group led by Julie Hiddleston, Executive Headteacher, GLF Schools.
Headteachers are invited to join this Work Group where you will have the chance to work collaboratively with other Heads, exploring the challenges and opportunities that arise for leadership teams when implementing and then sustaining a mastery approach to teaching in school.
The workgroup will give Headteachers the opportunity to consider what is working well, share challenges and successes and to begin planning for a post-Covid return to school. Work group participants will have the opportunity to examine current research and guidance and how this can help to support staff with the development of the approach in your schools. Crucially, the Work Group will also explore how a sustained approach to developing mastery teaching in school can have a positive impact on narrowing the gap for the most disadvantaged children in our schools.
Tuesday 25 May 9.30am—12.00 noon Book here
Please book as soon as possible to secure your place.
Primary Work Groups 2020/2021
Please note that due to Covid-19 and lockdown, all Work Groups will be run remotely until at least Easter
Maths Retrieval Practice Natasha Harrison, Deputy Headteacher and Maths Mastery Specialist, St Ethelbert’s Primary Catholic School Have you come across the book called ‘How I wish I’d taught maths’ by Craig
Barton? I’m going to admit, I purchased this book last year and have just
started to dip into it over the last couple of months. I’m so glad I did! The
information on retrieval practice in particular has encouraged me to reflect on
my teaching and change my practice. As teachers, we are sometimes driven by
trying to teach as much content as possible, without giving enough time for consolidation and
overlearning. Kate Jones’ book on Retrieval Practice highlights that if nothing has changed in long term
memory, nothing has been learnt. Therefore, we need to continually support pupils to recall key
mathematical facts so that they remember them; there needs to be a change to their long term memory.
To support this, at my school, the pupils began using flash cards in maths –
really simple but has had a huge impact! A question is written on one side of
the card (e.g. 9 x 2) with the answer on the other. Teachers plan into their
lessons dedicated flashcard retrieval time – short and snappy. The results
have been amazing. Pupils who have previously struggled learning specific
multiplication facts are now recalling them fluently. A range of flash cards
have been created, depending on the age of pupils: recalling fractions,
decimals, percentages in upper key stage 2; number bonds to 10 and 20 in
year 1; doubling and halving in year 2. Flash cards is just one retrieval
strategy, but one that I’d definitely recommend all teachers to try.
As Daniel Willingham (2019) said “In teaching procedural and factual knowledge, ensure that students get
to automaticity. Explain to students that automaticity with procedures and facts is important because it
frees their minds to think about concepts.” We need our pupils to have committed these facts to their
long term memory so that we can get on with helping them to understand the big ideas in Maths.
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Join the BBO Maths Hub by emailing [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @BBOMathsHub
Recordings by teachers who are involved as leads and participants in these programmes to explain what they and their schools have got out of them https://bbomathshub.org.uk/secondary-mastery-workgroups/
To express interest in any of these programmes, please fill out the form on our website at the following location, listing the name of the opportunity you are considering. Alternatively, if you have any questions or would like to speak to a teacher who has already been through the above please contact the maths hub and mark your enquiry for my attention.
Slough and Windsor network meeting is on Monday 15th March 4 to 5.30pm. Topic is Hypothesis Testing with Desmos and Geogebra. To sign up go to https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/8204
Making Them Think! network meeting is on Thursday 18th March 4.30pm to 6pm. The topic is Hypothesis Testing using Desmos and Geogebra (a repeat of Slough and Windsor). To sign up go to https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/8075
All network meetings are online and you are welcome to sign up to any in which you are interested.
In addition:
AMSP are running their Year 10 Maths Feasts online. The next date is the week beginning Monday 22nd March and schools can organise the event however they wish. For details go to https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/7942
Maths Inspiration Virtual Show - Cracking the Code - Maths & Cyber-security. This is for 11-16 students, and is 40 minutes from 2pm on Wednesday 24th March. For more information go
to https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/8224
There is an online enrichment event for Year 10 students - Making a Million. This is on Thursday 25th March, 1.30 to 2.30pm. Information from https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/8176
There is a lot coming up in April and May. To check it out go to https://amsp.org.uk/events
Interested in becoming a Mastery Specialist or a PD Lead?
Expression of interest forms for 2021/2022 are now available
Expression of interest (EOI) forms for Primary Mastery Specialist, Secondary Mastery Specialist and PD Lead programmes for 2021/2022 have now gone live on the NCETM website. Please go online and complete an EOI form to be informed once the recruitment windows are open. www.ncetm.org.uk/maths-hubs-projects/primary-mastery-specialists/ www.ncetm.org.uk/maths-hubs-projects/secondary-mastery-specialists/ www.ncetm.org.uk/maths-hubs-projects/professional-development-lead-accreditation-programme/
Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity for 2021/2022!
Other Opportunities
Please note that due to Covid-19 and lockdown, all Work Groups will be run remotely until at least Easter