Do any of your secondary schools have maths tutoring/support in small groups for catch-up??

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If so, what does it look like?

All year through and pitched at GCSE years?

Or something else....or do they just use TAs without any Maths expertise????

Yes but it is a private school.
There’s maths help club at lunchtimes - each maths teacher does one lunchtime. It’s 30 minutes and lunch is 80 minutes long so teachers still get a break etc.
DS goes to one called maths busters in learning support which is run by the SENCO.
Support available for all years and throughout the academic year.

Yes, through half term and Easter, and one lunchtime a week.

My sons school had Saturday classes. Local non selective comp.

Yes there is maths drop in twice a week available for everyone in any year group. They will spend extra time going through whatever you need. Selective girls grammar.

Yes, local comp, groups of six with the head, twice a week, in break and after school. For those likely to fail GCSE. He scraped through.

A variety. TA’s take small groups of KS4 to work on basic skills, we have a primary teacher who has small groups of KS3, drop in support session for KS3, Saturday mornings for about 1/3 of year 11.

really interesting ... thank you.

Wondering what scope there is for a student who did academic and peer mentoring when at school to get a job post uni doing this for a year - very good at explaining and has huge patience as well as the stills (Maths A and Physics A at A level)....

Being good at maths doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. Having said that, I think there’s always call for private maths tutors around GCSE etc

If a school were doing catch up tuition I'd personally expect them to be using properly qualified teachers. If these children haven't managed with normal classroom teaching they need someone who really knows what they are doing.

On the other hand external to school in private some parents will be happy for someone with your DCs skills to tutor at the right price (ie cheaper than a teacher would charge).

Hmm.... i thought there was a national shortage of maths teachers, with many schools not having enough? And that a TA with patience and Maths Skills might be quite in demand?

A TA would be doing interventions under guidance of a teacher.
So maybe yes your DC could get a job doing this as a TA rather than a teacher/tutor?

that's what I was thinking...