Assistant Maths Hub Lead and Teacher of Mathematics

We are looking to appoint an experienced maths teacher who can contribute towards the rich

and developing maths education landscape in our region. Our new, and attractive, role will

involve spending half the week working with the Cambridge Maths Hub to enhance the teaching

and learning of maths in the region. The other half will be spent teaching in one of our Trust

secondary schools, in the knowledge that teaching is at the heart of what we all do and

enhancing the craft in our own classroom is essential to supporting others successfully. A part-

time (at least 80%) post would be considered.

This role is being advertised for the first time due to the expanding demand for support from

local schools. At Cambridge Maths Hub we work with almost all secondary schools in

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, West Suffolk and King's Lynn and West Norfolk. Two-thirds of the

region's secondary schools have participated or are participating, in the Teaching for Mastery

programme. This attractive role keeps effective maths teachers in the classroom but also utilises

their skills to support others.

Cambridge Maths Hub has been operating for ten years. We work with teachers and schools

from Early Years through to post 16. We provide high quality professional development for

teachers, all free and funded by the DE. We currently have 67 Local Leaders of Maths Education

(LLME) from 50 different schools delivering, our professional development. We offer access to the

standard Maths Hub programme (decided centrally, with training, by the NCETM). Through our

Targeted Support programme, we also offer bespoke support for schools where progress in

maths is an issue, for whatever reason.

The recent Ofsted review of maths highlights the significant impact of Maths Hubs on teaching

and learning, We are seeing evidence of this across our region, Many of our schools are isolated.

Teachers, in the past, rarely engaged with professionals outside of their own school. This was

true in our city schools where time and capacity limited the opportunities for teachers to

collaborate and even more so in our rural schools. Over the last five years we have seen

increased engagement in collaborative maths professional development through the Maths Hub.

Over 90% of our schools have engaged, most continuing year after year. The model used is one

of developing collaborative professional communities, Teachers engage in *push and pull*

conversations and seek to explore difficult ideas enabling them to teach more effectively. The

leaders of these Work Groups (LLME) are based in schools: almost all are teachers (some are

senior leaders). The groups bring a variety of experience from a variety of schools. Our belief is

that the solutions for improving schools rest within our schools. As teachers share with one

another and learn from one another, we see the reality of this. Allen & Sims write: "Learning from peers

is the single most important characteristic of schools that manage to sustain growth in teacher

expertise” Allen and Sims 2018, The Teacher Gap

Maths across the Trust

We are a highly successful trust comprised of 4 secondary schools and 7 primary schools. Our

secondary schools are varied from Melbourn Village College, an 11-16 rural school with just over

600 students to Comberton Village College an 11-18 school with just under 2000 pupils. All our

schools share the same guiding principles: that they are at the heart of the local community to

serve in the way that suits their unique context and challenges

As a trust we believe in excellence for all and the maths departments in ouf schoois embody this.

Our pupils make fantastic progress thanks to the enthusiastic, dynamic members of staff who are

supported to teach in a style which suits them. We believe in a strong emphasis on problem

solving at all levels, we regularly enter pupils for the UKMT challenges and attend many

extracurricular events to inspire our students such as the ASP maths feasts. We have two local

AMP coordinators based in Comberton Village College Our schools have a strong focus on

supporting students with SEND needs and as maths departments we work with TAs in the

classroom so that these students make excellent progress

The Cambridge Maths Hub is based at Cambourne Village College and staff in all four of aur

secondary schools are involved with the hub either by attending courses or by facilitating on

courses, We also have several staff who have secondments to the hub for part of the week.

Recently as a trust we have had a shift towards integrating mastery teaching into our maths

curriculum, so we have staff in different cohorts of mastery specialist training. As a trust there is

a strong focus on CPD, with programmes in place to support the development of staff in their

ECT years and beyond St Peters school have made excellent use of an additional period of joint

PA time where the whole department can meet weekly to allow for collaborative planning and

discussions on pedagogy.

discussions on pedagogy.

Our maths departments all have access to department offices which create a collaborative space

for staff to work. We subscribe to Sparx maths as a trust to reduce staff workload with setting

homework and to support individualised pupil learning. Three of our four secondary schools have

now set up iPads so that students have 1-1 devices, classrooms have apple classroom which work

well with teacher iPads to allow for ease of presenting and monitoring.

Our departments are made up of a diverse range of people, we have a strong track record of

welcoming part time teachers, we are also proud of the fact that our maths departments have a

variety of specialisms where staff have backgrounds not just in maths but in engineering, law,

computer science and sports science as well as many other areas. Where we have non-specialists

joining the teams, we are supportive in their development of subject knowledge and transition to

becoming a maths specialist.

Three of our four secondary schools teach the same scheme of learning which we are continually

refining. This spiral scheme of learning has been designed to provide an excellent level of

support for students in their learning but also for staff delivering the curriculum. We have a bank of

resources that staff can use for all lessons, but we also acknowledge that autonomy in the

classroom is important, and staff are welcome to teach in the way that best suits them

For the right candidate our schools offer opportunities to teach A Level. Cambourne Village

College will be opening a sixth form in September 2024, and we are working closely as a trust to

support this exciting new venture. Currently we offer maths, double maths and core maths to our

post-16 students at St Peters School and Comberton Village College, and maths is regularly the

most popular A-Level.

Pre-application discussions are welcomed and encouraged. If you would like to find out more

about any of our schools, or you would like to arrange a visit, please contact the Trust Director of

(Secondary) Maths, Katie Slusar-Fletcher on kslusar@combertonvc.org or Cordelia Myers, Strategic

Lead for Cambridge Maths Hub: admin@cambridgemathshub.org.

To apply for this position please submit a completed application form and covering letter

(consisting of no more than 2 sides of A4 when printed) via email to ttull@catrust.co.uk by

midday on Tuesday 7th May 2024. Please note that we do not accept CVs.