I've spent a large chunk of my time over the last 18 months writing a scheme of work for Key Stage 3. I wrote a blog in June about our experiences of a year of mastery teaching and it's a theme I'll come back to in later posts over the summer, as the endless (M)astery debate is getting a lot of air time at the moment. As a side note, it's worth reading Charlie Stripp's blog posts and Andrew Blair's responses for views from both sides of the table.

I decided that today's post for the SBPC (Summer Blog Post Challenge - read here) should be about that journey, and the pitfalls I've met along the way. For a much more in-depth chronicle of writing a scheme, I suggest checking out Craig Barton's 19 part series - it takes a while to read, but has some great tips and ideas if you're in the same position I was a few months ago.

Reflections on a year of teaching the Mastery pathway (mastery mathematics) at Key Stage 3.

NOTE: If you are a pupil looking for Mastery Pathway homeworks, you need to click here.

Got a whole fortnight's worth of stuff to fit into this post as Easter holidays mean I've had a little break from frequent Twitter checking! Here are my picks from the last two weeks: