Gareth had previously attended a ‘Teaching for Mastery’ day in Cardiff and both he and Daniel read Teaching for Mastery by Mark McCourt. Both were committed to implementing what they’d learned in their school. Daniel could see from the start that using

to begin to introduce the principles of teaching for mastery would be most successful if his team went ‘all in’, so every year group was added to the platform. Pupils first completed a series of diagnostic assessments which enabled teachers to identify learning gaps and decide on the best starting point. From here, pupils were able to follow the

curriculum. With the planning already in place, staff saved huge amounts of time which could then be channelled into other areas of their teaching practice. Perhaps the most useful element of following the

curriculum proved to be its structure, with each objective building on what came before. In Daniel’s words, “We’re confident that what we’re delivering is building on prior learning, and we’re confident we’re going in the right direction.”