May 13th, 2017

Mr Okoh (NPQSL training & NCETM PD Lead) has initiated, organised and executed a Capital City Academy and Harlesden Primary School collaboration involving pioneering work on improving mathematics as children transition between primary and secondary school. The year long project is themed, ‘Broken Maths: Mending the Connections in Teaching and Learning in the transition from KS2 to 3’, and has involved teachers from both schools experiencing what it is like teaching at the different learning phases and understanding the need for consistency in teaching for mastery with an appreciation of where the children are 'coming from' and where they are 'going to'. Deep conceptual understanding leads to learning progress in STEM subjects. From reflections made during the sessions to this point, teachers have agreed the need to teach for mastery at the primary and early secondary years. The next phase will involve teacher trainers working with primary and secondary teachers from schools across Brent at Capital City Academy, and a collaborative presentation of our school action based research by Mr Okoh, Ms Calado, Ms Hentzen and Harlesden Primary Teachers, Ms Khan, Ms Elizabeth McArthur, Ms Charlotte Adams and Mr Denton at the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics later in the year.