A headteacher’s guide to Maths Hubs
Don’t let your school miss out: everything you need to know about Maths Hubs and fully-funded CPD
You’re a busy headteacher, but you want your school to take advantage of the free maths-specific CPD offered by your local Maths Hub. All the other successful schools in your area are involved, and you want to learn more about how to be part of the Maths Hubs Programme. Sound familiar? In this five-minute read, discover what’s available to you, how to access it, and what other headteachers say about working with their local Maths Hub.
What is a Maths Hub and what does it offer?
There are 40 Maths Hubs, and they cover the whole of England. You are already ‘in’ a Maths Hub, even if you haven’t yet been in touch or accessed any support or professional development!
Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub serves schools across Kirklees, Wakefield, Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
Whilst Maths Hubs are led by a Lead School, College or Trust, they are actually a network, and harness all the subject-specific expertise in the areas they serve. This means that, very often, professional development can come to you. If you join a Teaching for Mastery Development Work Group, for example, one or two teachers from your school will attend local face-to-face CPD sessions with colleagues from other nearby schools, but you will also receive visits from a Mastery Specialist – a teacher trained in mastery who will help your school develop its maths curriculum and pedagogy, whichever mastery scheme you use.
READ: What is a Maths Hub, and how do they form a national network?
Once you have contacted your local hub, they will let you know what professional development opportunities, or ‘projects’, are available in your area. Each project is designed to offer a long-term approach to improving maths in your school and is evidence-based. Maths Hubs don’t offer any one-off ‘courses’; we all know that they just don’t work if you want sustainable change that lasts. Instead, Work Groups provide opportunities for your teachers to get together with local colleagues throughout the year, observe expert teaching and best practice, and try out new approaches in their own classrooms in between.
You might even be eligible to participate in Targeted Support in Maths, a new project which offers bespoke support to schools that do not yet have the capacity to benefit from the full Teaching for Mastery Programme.
UNDERSTAND: The types of professional and school development offered by Maths Hubs
As well as Work Groups, teachers or TAs in your school might want to take part in Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics programmes. These develop an individual’s subject knowledge and pedagogy, and there is even a programme for non-specialists teaching secondary maths. You might also have a passionate and skilful teacher who would benefit from training as a Mastery Specialist.
DISCOVER: Over 30 professional development opportunities available for teachers and TAs in all phases
If you’re part of a trust, you can also work with Maths Hubs, even if the schools in your trust span several hub boundaries.
EXPLORE: How MATs can work in partnership with Maths Hubs
GET INVOLVED: If you are a school located in the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub region, you can express an interest in any of our projects right away by clicking here: