Breakfast Briefing Sharing good practice across Primary schools – Making change and improvements together Focus of development : A mastery approach to teaching maths Our context in brief… What we have been doing …. Sandown is a community primary school in Hastings. It has 517 pupils We have been part of the NCETM teaching for mastery programme on roll and now has an onsite nursery. Lead across East Sussex The school is in an area of significant deprivation. School deprivation Clear pedagogy throughout the school indicator of 0.4. Support other schools Percentage of pupils eligible for Ever 6 FSM is 47.8% Developing an innovative and research based forward thinking team of Lessons’ ‘Polishing What is working well… Challenges and next steps…. Shared pedagogy throughout the school Ensure all new staff are up to speed and understand our ethos and Quality of teaching is consistently at least good pedagogy Maths results at KS2 above national for the last two years and Attainment of more able pupils significantly above average progress data from KS1 And baseline Ensuring quality of teaching in all lessons is at least good ( eg HLTA A highly successful TRG ( teacher research group approach to school cover) improvement Our team has become innovative and forward thinking For further information please contact: Charlie Lindsay headteacher Sandown Primary head@sandown.school
Breakfast Briefing – Sharing good practice across Primary schools Making change and improvements together Focus of development : A mastery approach to teaching maths Our context in brief… Sandown is a community primary school in Hastings. It has 517 pupils on roll and now has an onsite nursery. The school is in an area of significant deprivation. School deprivation indicator of 0.4. Percentage of pupils eligible for Ever 6 FSM is 47.8% What we have been doing …. We have been part of the NCETM teaching for mastery programme Lead across East Sussex Clear pedagogy throughout the school Support other schools Developing an innovative and research based forward thinking team ‘Polishing of Lessons’ What is working well… Shared pedagogy throughout the school Quality of teaching is consistently at least good Maths results at KS2 above national for the last two years and significantly above average progress data from KS1 And baseline A highly successful TRG ( teacher research group approach to school improvement Our team has become innovative and forward thinking Challenges and next steps…. Ensure all new staff are up to speed and understand our ethos and pedagogy Attainment of more able pupils Ensuring quality of teaching in all lessons is at least good ( eg HLTA cover) For further information please contact: Charlie Lindsay headteacher Sandown Primary head@sandown.school
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