Who can take part?
Ideal for any Secondary non-specialists who are looking to teach Maths as a new/additional subject or who are currently teaching Maths but did not specialise at ITT and wish to develop their subject knowledge.
Please ensure that you can join the sessions detailed before registering, that you are from a state-funded school and meet one of the following criteria:
1) A non-specialist teacher of maths (i.e. did not specialise in Maths at initial teaching training) who is currently teaching some maths
2) A non-specialist teacher (QTS) who is interested in teaching maths and have an active commitment from your school to teach maths this or next academic year
3) A non-specialist teacher (non QTS) either teaching some maths now or with an active commitment from your school to teach maths this or next academic year
4) An overseas-trained maths teacher with QTS status obtained through the mutual recognition route, UK resident status, eligible to work in the UK and with an approved teaching post in Secondary school /College with commitment from their school to complete the programme.
What is involved?
The programme is aligned to the NCETM teaching for mastery pedagogy and is based on the NCETM KS3 core themes :
- Structure of the number system
- Operating on number
- Multiplicative reasoning
- Sequences and graphs
- Statistics and probability
- Geometry.
Participants will explore these theme,, supported by our experienced Work Group Leads.
What will you learn?
- You will explore and increase your use of a range of pedagogic approaches aligned to the principles of teaching for mastery.
- You wil develop your subject knowledge and curriculum knowledge of Secondary mathematics
- Your students will think, reason and discuss their maths in order to deepen their understanding
What is the cost?
As with all of our Work Groups, the Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics for Secondary Non-Specialists is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is provided completely free to participating state-funded schools.
Where & when?
The programme runs over the equivalent of 6 days, face-to-face.
We will have two programmes running over 2026 / 27 – a Summer Start cohort and an Autumn Start cohort.
What should i do next?
Registration is open for our Summer Start cohort – starting after exam season and ideal for non-specialists who are teaching maths already or preparing to teach from September.
If you are interested in our Autumn Start cohort, please register your interest and we will be in touch once dates are confirmed.
SUMMER START COHORT
Thurs 09/07/2026
Wed 15/07/2026
Mon 5 / 10 / 2026
Tues 24 / 11 / 2026
Wed 20 / 01 / 2027
Thurs 18 / 03 / 2027
10:00-15:00
St John the Baptist School, Woking GU22 9AL
Autumn Start Cohort
Dates to be confirmed
TBC
Farnborough, Hampshire