Secondary Round-up - November 2025

In this month's Secondary Round-up:

• Find Out in Five – the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme - Jenny Clegg shares how the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme has strengthened teaching across her school and trust
• Spotlight on LLMEs - Post-16 - meet Joe and find out how the Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialist Programme is transforming maths teaching at Andover College
• Oracy, inclusion and inspection - the NCETM’s Charlie Stripp and Jane Hawkins unpick the Ofsted Schools Toolkit through an oracy and inclusion lens
• Five Big Ideas at Secondary – Variation - Richard Perring explains variation, how it exposes mathematical structures and how to build it into planning
• Find Out in Five – Building maths leadership through collaboration - find out how leaders in a large trust work with their two local Maths Hubs to strengthen maths teaching across 28 schools
• Become a Secondary Mastery Specialist - applications open soon! Sign up for an alert and be the first to find out how to join the next cohort.

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