Does your secondary school use White Rose Maths?

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My DD is a bit of a high flyer at maths at her primary school, and is lucky the school has a specialist maths teacher who takes a "top set" as well as a "bottom set" that need more help. The secondary school she has been offered for September doesn't use setting, but said they use a system called White Rose Maths to differentiate in class. Does anyone have any experience of this? I've looked at the website but it's difficult to get a sense of what it is. e.g. Does it have levels of workbook based on what stage they're at?

It's just a curriculum. Nothing good or bad about it.

No but I've used it at Primary level. Some schools but the actual workbooks, some use the scheme but not the workbooks.

At primary there are three or four pages of questions in the workbook that get progressively more difficult ending with an open challenge question.

"At primary there are three or four pages of questions in the workbook that get progressively more difficult ending with an open challenge question."

So did your primary allow children to decide where they started and finished or make them do all the questions?

I think our secondary said the children could find their own level, so fingers crossed it will work well for all.

This is white rose maths.

whiteroseeducation.com/resources/maths/secondary

It's a curriculum (so a list of topics and when they are taught) which is resourced (so there is a PowerPoint for every lesson.

The PowerPoints need adapting by the teacher - they are not just plug and play.

Many secondaries have mixed ability teaching for a lot of subjects in year 7 to help with the transition to secondary school as it maintains a "primary" feel if students are in the same class for most things.

The curriculum itself is fine for all abilities but the resourcing (so the PowerPoints) will need a lot of adapting by the teacher for higher attaining students.

The year 7 stuff is mostly ok for all abilities but after that higher attainers need more. Hopefully the school will provide it.