Northumberland Secondary Strategy

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Northumberland Secondary Strategy

• MATHEMATICS STRAND

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Priorities for mathematics strand

• To raise standards and improve engagement and
  enjoyment by
• Priority 1 Mathematics lessons increasingly
  stimulate mathematical thinking through Strategy
  approaches including discussion and group work.
• Priority 2 Teachers track pupils progress and,
  at least in Key Stage 3, use effective
  intervention approaches to support those pupils
  who are falling behind.
• Priority 3 Mathematics departments are reviewing
  their schemes of work to promote better
  progression in learning.
• Priority 4 Mathematics subject leaders
  increasingly foster collaborative approaches to
  planning.

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Curriculum Review
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Curriculum implications

• Subject leaders should focus on
• Making pedagogical shifts which enable the
  process skills of representing, analysing and
  interpreting to be explicitly taught and learners
  to develop their competence as the demand levels
  of unfamiliarity, complexity, technical demand
  and independence increase
• Planning future small scale in school projects
  where learners are expected to transfer and apply
  mathematical process skills

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Caution not a superficial re-write

• The KS3 scheme of work should be reviewed on the
  basis of key processes and teaching and learning
  approaches not small changes to range and content
  objectives.
• The content is not vastly different but the way
  it is taught should be!

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What is different

• As few changes as possible in order to embrace
  the new curriculum and make progression work
• Mathematical processes and application replaces
  UAM (using and applying mathematics)
• Some objectives adjusted to remove repeats from
  one year to next
• Some objectives reworded to make progression
  clearer form one year to next

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First teaching / first testing

• Key stage 3
• First teaching Sept 2008
• First testing summer 2011
• Key stage 4
• First teaching Sept 2010
• First testing summer 2012
• N.B Any schools considering entering students for
  KS3 test in Y8 need to be aware that the content
  of the programmes of study will change from 2008
  but the new test will not change until 2011.

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Timescale KS4

• The requirements for key stage 4 will come into
  force as the new GCSE qualifications in the
  relevant subjects begin. Citizenship and PE begin
  implementation in 2009 and English, ICT and
  mathematics in 2010.
• QCA website

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Maths Subject Leaders meetings will support a
phased implementation

• Spring 08 SLDM
• launching the new KS3 PoS
• Summer 08 SLDM
• launching the revised Framework secondary
  toolkit
• Autumn 08 SLDM
• further support for a phased implementation

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The New Secondary Framework

• Electronic (web based)
• Extends across all years (7 to 11, and extension)
• includes assessment criteria/key indicators for
  all years
• Pitches at progression
• KS3 from level 4 to level 6
• KS4 from level 6 to grade B

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Target Setting for 2009
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Key stage 3

• Increase the proportion of children achieving
  level 5 in English and mathematics
• KS2 3 improve proportion of children
  progressing 2 levels in mathematics

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National expectations KS3

• All pupils at level 4 in Maths and 50 of pupils
  at level 3 should progress to level 5 and the
  majority to level 6
• All level 5 in Maths should progress to level 6
  and an increasing majority to level 7
• No children make less than 1 level progress

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Key stage 4 (school and LA)

• Increase the proportion of children achieving 5
  A - C grades at GCSE inc English and
  mathematics
• KS 3 4 improve proportion of children
  progressing 2 levels in mathematics

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KS3 to KS4 progress measures
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National expectations KS4

• All pupils averaging level 6 in En and Ma and 30
  averaging level 5 should achieve 5 A - C grades
  at GCSE inc En and Ma
• All pupils achieving level 6 or above in both En
  and Ma in KS3 should make 2 levels progress in
  each subject