Primary Programmes

Support for schools that have already engaged in Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 

Who Can Participate? 
Subject Leaders from all 2025/26 Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 schools and schools from previous cohorts that haven’t yet joined this community.
Schools must be engaged in a 2025/26 Teaching for Mastery Work Group or have expressed interest in future collaboration.

What’s Involved? 
Collaborative Online Community: Work together with peers to share insights and strategies.
Centrally-Led Sessions: Attend two sessions with NCETM, one in autumn and one in spring, to deepen your understanding and expertise.
Local Hub Sessions: Participate in two local sessions to connect with your hub and enhance your skills.
Support Colleagues: Help Reception and KS1 teachers embed Mastering Number in their classes and assist Year 3 teachers with fluency sessions.
Fluency Sessions: Year 3 teachers conduct 10-15 minute sessions, four days a week, to boost pupils’ fluency in additive facts.

Why Join? 
Professional Growth: Enhance your teaching skills through collaborative and expert-led sessions.
Impactful Learning: Ensure pupils develop strong foundational maths skills.
Community Building: Be part of a supportive network of educators committed to excellence in teaching mathematics.

Collaborative professional development for schools to ensure that a teaching for mastery approach is implemented with fidelity  

Who Can Participate? 
Schools that have historically participated in a Teaching for Mastery Development, Embedding, or Sustaining Work Group. Please get in touch, if you want to check whether your school is eligible to join at: hello@nnwmathshub.org.uk

What’s Involved? 
Collaboration: Work alongside other schools to embed and refine teaching for mastery.
Leadership and Teaching: Leaders and teachers collaborate over time.
Core Activities: Observe teaching for mastery in live lessons.
Focus Areas: Implement specific aspects of teaching for mastery involving the school community.

Why Join?
Ongoing Participation: Year-on-year involvement to improve pupil outcomes. Professional Growth: Develop understanding and leadership practice through collaboration. Impactful Learning: Benefit all pupils with consistent, coherent teaching for mastery approaches.

Strengthen the transition from primary to secondary school 

Who Can Participate?
Teachers and Leaders responsible for the maths curriculum in Years 5 to 8.
Participants: Subject leaders, phase leaders, or teachers with transition responsibilities.

What’s Involved? 
Workshops: Equivalent of three full days, held in both KS2 and KS3 settings.
School-Based Tasks: Complete tasks between sessions.
Materials: Explore teaching for mastery principles and key elements common to KS2 and KS3 maths.
Classroom Trials: Try out materials with pupils, observe impact, and reflect on pedagogical approaches.

Why Join?
Professional Growth: Enhance your teaching practices and transition strategies.
Impactful Learning: Observe and reflect on different pedagogical approaches.
Community Building: Collaborate with other educators and share effective strategies.

Develop mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogy

Who Can Participate?
Primary Teachers: Especially those without prior maths-specific training.

What’s Involved?
Workshops: Equivalent of four days, facilitated by Cohort Leads.
Collaborative Tasks: Engage in maths tasks and structured conversations.
Pedagogical Exploration: Unpick maths concepts, model pedagogy, address misconceptions, and transfer approaches to classrooms.
Online Community: Contribute to discussions, complete school-based tasks, and share observations.

Why Join?
Professional Growth: Enhance your specialist knowledge and teaching practices.
Impactful Learning: Support effective teaching for mastery approaches.
Community Building: Collaborate with peers and share effective strategies.

Express interest for 2026/27 below

Develop mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogy

Who Can Participate?
Primary Early Career Teachers: Those in their second or third year of teaching.

What’s Involved?
Workshops: Equivalent of four days over one academic year, facilitated by Cohort Leads.
Collaborative Tasks: Engage in maths tasks and structured conversations.
Pedagogical Exploration: Unpick maths concepts, model pedagogy, address misconceptions, and transfer approaches to classrooms.
Online Community: Contribute to discussions, complete school-based tasks, and share reflections with peers and mentors.

Why Join?
Professional Growth: Enhance your specialist knowledge and teaching practices.
Impactful Learning: Support effective teaching for mastery approaches.
Community Building: Collaborate with peers and mentors, sharing effective strategies.

The Mastering Number programme is designed to help children in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2 develop a strong foundation in number sense. Through engaging, structured sessions delivered four times a week, pupils build fluency, confidence, and flexibility with number, laying the groundwork for future success in mathematics.

Teachers receive high-quality professional development, access to comprehensive lesson materials, and support from a collaborative network of educators. The programme places particular emphasis on key mathematical concepts in the early years and supports progression through Key Stage 1.

By embedding consistent approaches and using carefully selected resources such as rekenreks, schools can enhance pupils’ ability to reason, calculate, and communicate mathematically from an early age.

Express interest for 2026/27 below

Teaching for Mastery – Introductory Phase: A two-year programme supporting schools beginning their journey with teaching for mastery in maths. Through regular Work Group sessions and school visits, teachers explore key principles like the Five Big Ideas and Catalysts for Change, building strong foundations for sustained improvement.

Led by local Primary Mastery Specialists, the programme fosters professional growth, impactful learning, and a collaborative network of educators.

Spaces are limited and require support from school leadership. Join the waiting list below to hear about upcoming opportunities.

Supporting pupils to develop good number sense in multiplicative relationships  Support pupils in developing strong number sense, with a particular focus on multiplicative relationships. This programme provides structured materials and professional development to help teachers deepen their subject knowledge and deliver impactful maths teaching.

Participants engage in termly online workshops led by national experts, alongside local sessions facilitated by Maths Hub Work Group Leads. These sessions offer opportunities to reflect on practice, collaborate with peers, and monitor pupil progress. An online community also supports ongoing discussion, resource sharing, and professional growth.

Open to schools participating in Teaching for Mastery Work Groups (see NCP25-09 and NCP25-11).
Spaces are limited — join the waiting list below to be notified about future opportunities.

MAT Maths Leads CPD Community

A professional learning community for those leading maths across multiple schools. Through face-to-face days, inter-sessional activities, and an active online network, participants strengthen strategic leadership, deepen subject knowledge, and collaborate with peers across the sector.

Open to new and continuing MAT maths leads.
Join the waiting list to express interest for 2026/27.

Primary Teaching Assistants Maths CPD Programme

A specialist CPD programme designed to build mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogy for primary teaching assistants. Through workshops, collaborative tasks, and an active online community, participants explore key maths concepts, address misconceptions, and develop effective classroom strategies.

Open to teaching assistants with limited prior maths-specific training.
This programme is now full for 2025/26 — join the waiting list to hear about future opportunities.