Liz Dacey

Who can take part? This online programme supports primary and special school teachers to develop specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, complementing teaching for mastery approaches as exemplified in the NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery. It is particularly relevant for individual teachers who have moved phases and teachers who have not recently received maths-specific training.  The focus this year is on Number Pathway. Date/Location Online sessions, dates […]

Best Start in Life As part of the Best Start in Life strategy, 2026/27 sees the SKTM (Reception Teachers and accompanying Teaching Assistants) Programme replace the previous SKTM for Early Years. This programme will bring together the previous two pathways for Number and Spatial Reasoning in a one-year programme. Who can take part? This programme

Who can take part? This community is open to subject leaders from all 2025/26 Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 schools and Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 schools from previous cohorts that have not yet participated in this community. All participating schools need to be engaged in a 2026/27 Teaching for Mastery Work Group. This

Who can take part? This opportunity is open to all schools participating in (continuing) Teaching for Mastery Work Groups. It is not available to schools in Introductory Work Groups. Lead participants from Work Group schools will be two teachers – one each from Year 4 and Year 5.  Support will also be given to maths

Closing Soon! Applications close on 26th June 2026 New for 2026/27 Mastering Number at Reception / KS1 will cover all the number element of the reception maths curriculum, and will now also include all the spatial reasoning/shape elements of the curriculum. In Reception, it is designed to be used to teach the full maths curriculum