Is mastery different from greater depth?

[proudmummy1231]

Just that really! And if mastery is different from greater depth, what exactly is the difference? Also, if an able child in year 2 or 6 is working above the expected level, is that considered greater depth? I'm just really confused...

It's easy to see with the example.
Mastery is what they expected to know. Greater depth is beyond that level.

www.ncetm.org.uk/public/files/23305579/Mastery_Assessment_Y2_Low_Res.pdf

With the NCETM (as linked above) they have examples of problems children need to be able to solve to demonstrate mastery, and then examples that demonstrate mastery at greater depth. This is for maths.

So as irvine says, in maths with the new 'mastery' curriculum, the idea is that all children 'master' a topic before they or the class moves on. So 'mastery' becomes the 'expected' level.

However, many schools use internal progress measures (across all subjects, or across maths and English) that use the term 'mastery' or 'mastered' in some way or other. E.g. emerging-developing-embedded-mastered. In this case, something between developing and embedded will be seen as 'expected', and mastered will be 'greater depth'.

Very confusing:
You can master your maths and be at expected and school reports developing, but master your English and be at greater depth....

Thanks for the replies. This really is confusing as at our school they consider greater depth as mastery, then I read somewhere that mastery and greater depth are different things, but I guess I get it now.
Thanks