Chetwynd Primary Academy
An interview with Lorraine Tonks, Principal of Chetwynd Primary Academy
This 26 minute interview, with Lorraine Tonks, Principal of Chetwynd Primary Academy in Nottingham, covers all the ways in which, from a school management perspective, teaching for mastery has been embedded throughout the school. The interview mentions Gemma Whiley, the teacher at Chetwynd who is a (Cohort 1) Mastery Specialist now working with six other primary schools in the East Midlands West Maths Hub area.
If you would like to listen to a specific section of this interview only, you can save time by following the links here below:
- Introduction/how the mastery journey began
- Structure of school day
- Changes to classroom layout
- Who children sit next to
- Managing staff development
- How teachers and other staff have filled gaps in their own maths knowledge
- Changes to teachers’ lesson planning
- Catering for the ‘more able’
- Maths classes of 43 pupils
- How the pupils have responded
- How staff are enjoying the change
- Response from parents
- Why more dads came along to our mastery sessions
- Do you still get challenges from parents?
- Concrete evidence that it is working
- Children still having difficulty?
- Managing the time of the Mastery Specialist
[NB: if you want to show just one of these sections at a staff meeting or workshop where there isn’t a secure Internet connection, we suggest you download the whole video, then, once downloaded, move the blue time bar along to the section you’re interested in, and press PLAY.]
If you’d like to join a primary Teaching for Mastery Work Group with your local Maths Hub, you can read about opportunities on our Primary teaching for mastery opportunities page.