Season 1 - Episode 3 - Jemma Sherwood - Threads in the maths curriculum and autonomy vs consistency

Hello everyone thanks for joining me, Ben Gordon, on the BAGs to Learn podcast. I am at the time of recording a maths teacher and an Assistant Headteacher at a school in Blackpool. This season on the podcast we are having “Curriculum Conversations” where I interview specialists and leaders about the things that make our schools tick. In the short episodes there are BAGs to learn on a single narrow focus to make it easy to assign colleagues to the episodes that may help them develop the most. This episode, we learn from Jemma Sherwood. Jemma is Senior Lead Practitioner for maths at Ormiston Academies Trust. Before that she was Head of Maths for 5 years and AST for 8. She wrote the book, “How to enhance your maths subject knowledge: number and algebra for secondary teachers” and has contributed to textbooks and revision workbooks. In this episode we explore threads in the maths curriculum, look at consistency vs autonomy and how we can support our teaching teams to implement our intended curriculum. We also touch on cultural capital, cross-curricular links and CPD. Jemma then offers reflections for listeners to think about with regards to their department. I hope you enjoy it and any feedback would be most welcome. If you like what you hear, you could leave a 5 star review on your chosen podcast platform, as well as sharing on social media This will increase the chances of as many different people hearing the words of wisdom from my guests, it would be much appreciated! Here we go… we’ve got BAGs to learn from Jemma Sherwood...