Targeted Support in Mathematics – Intensive

Intensive support involves sustained, bespoke collaboration with leaders to develop a school’s capacity and climate for implementation. In the long term, this aims to build the foundations for accessing the standard Teaching for Mastery Programmes.

 

This is bespoke support for schools in need of additional capacity to enable them to benefit from standard or enhanced provision at a later stage. The focus is on providing intensive sustained support over time, in order for the leadership in both the school and subject to:

• Explore: clarify priorities for development
• Prepare: plan short-/medium-/long-term development
• Deliver and Sustain: ensure effective sustained support from the Maths Hub especially for establishing teaching for mastery.

Intensive support is a Network Collaborative Project (NCP25-33) and is in the NCP booklet.

Maths Hubs would be able to offer an average of six ISP days per school in order to work in partnership with them to bring about sustained change. In addition, there would be an average school grant for six days of leader/teacher release time. This support can start and finish at any point in the year.

Both the Intensive support partner days and school grant for each school could vary based on a judgement of relative need.

 

Schools/selection

The intensive provision would be targeted at schools identified through a formal process based on agreed criteria/context.

An intensive school could be a school that has never engaged with the NCETM or, due to circumstances, has had to pause an NCP and needs support to get back on track.

A school receiving Intensive Support should not be engaged with any of the following NCPs:

• Primary Mastery Specialists (NCP25-01); Primary TfM Work Groups (NCP25-09, NCP25-11)
• Secondary Mastery Specialists (NCP25-02, NCP25-03); Secondary TfM Work Groups (NCP25-14)

but may participate in any other NCP alongside the Intensive Support.

 

Intended outcomes

Build capacity within the school to foster a change in culture in the teaching and learning of maths. This is achieved through the ISP and school working in partnership to explore, plan, deliver and sustain an implementation strategy.

Develop a strong relationship with the Maths Hub and to ensure the school successfully begins to benefit from the Maths Hub’s teaching for mastery standard offer.

 

Expression of Interest

Please complete this google form to express your school’s interest in taking part.