A flight back from a research trip observing maths teaching in Shanghai proved a productive time for the team from St Mary and St Thomas CE Primary in St Helens.
Headteacher Kirsty Haw and colleague Lisa Bradshaw had travelled to the Chinese city as part of a Department for Education (DfE) funded national maths hub project. They spent 17 days watching maths teaching – an exciting experience that prompted them to use the long journey home to devise a new five-part maths lesson.
The lesson approach turned the teaching of maths on its head at the school, which later became part of Three Saints Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust headed by Ms Haw as executive principal and made up of St Mary and St Thomas CE Primary and St Ann’s CE Primary.
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