Coleridge Primary School
An interview with Ben Strange and Louise Foulkes, deputy and assistant heads of Coleridge Primary School
This 20 minute interview comes from Coleridge Primary School in north London. First we hear from the Deputy Head, Ben Strange, whose overall responsibilities include maths, and then we hear from Louise Foulkes, one of the school’s Assistant Heads, and a Mastery Specialist, trained by the NCETM in conjunction with the (local) London North East Maths Hub.
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Ben Strange
- How the conversion to mastery came about
- Changes to how children are grouped in class?
- Changes to the way teachers plan maths lessons
- Helping ‘slower’ children keep up
- Organising early intervention?
- How a Mastery Specialist guides other teachers
- Convincing the whole teaching body
- How will mastery develop in 2017-2018?
- Parents’ reaction
- How we know that mastery is working
- What I see when I go into classrooms
Louise Foulkes
- Differing approaches to grouping in maths lessons
- The most powerful element of mastery for me
- Helping other schools on their mastery journey
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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.