Teachers from St Augustine’s Primary School in Darlington and Acklam Whin Primary School in Middlesbrough have been selected to take part in a prestigious teacher exchange, focusing on mathematics, with a partner school in Shanghai.
Lisa Thompson and Suzie Prine are among around 100 expert mathematics teachers from schools across England taking part in an exchange as part of the Maths Hubs Programme. St Augustine’s Primary School and Acklam Whin Primary School are working with the Archimedes NE Maths Hub.
The purpose of the exchange is to further develop the understanding and implementation of mastery approaches to teaching maths in St Augustine’s Primary School and Acklam Whin Primary School and in local partner schools they will be working with during the school year 2019/20.
This is one part of the Teaching for Mastery Programme, run by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in conjunction with the Maths Hubs Programme, and funded by the DfE.
Funding for the four-year programme, initially amounting to £41m, was launched in July 2016.
The group of teachers, all of whom have completed training as Mastery Specialists in a programme run by the NCETM and Maths Hubs, will be visiting Shanghai in November 2019, and hosting their partner teachers from Shanghai in English schools in March 2020.
There are 37 Maths Hubs, spread across England, each led by a school with a record of high achievement in maths, and of supporting improvements in maths teaching and learning in neighbouring schools.
This is the sixth teacher exchange with schools in Shanghai since the Maths Hubs Programme was launched in autumn 2014.
For more information, see www.mathshubs.org.uk or contact steve.mccormack@ncetm.org.uk
