White Rose Maths summary review
Date: 13.07.2022| Average star rating: 4.3/5 |
| Overview comments: |
| • The CPD that’s supports WRM is excellent |
| • Generally liked by teachers |
| • I like the free elements |
| How well does it match the curriculum? |
| • 5* Very closely matched to national curriculum |
| • 5* Full coverage |
| • 4* Well resourced and matches plans. |
| • 4* A great resource but needs to be adapted to children's needs and can have too much content. |
| • 4* More work needed to align to new Welsh curriculum |
| • 4* Sometimes doesn’t take misconceptions into account |
| • 3* It’s good for providing challenge and mastery based tasks. It’s not so good for basic skills learning. |
| How could it be improved to support different learners? |
| • 3* Extra materials at both ends would be good. |
| • 4* Able to clearly differentiate |
| • 3* But you do have to do a bit of work around this. We purchased something else to support. |
| • 3* Need to be more inclusive for children with special needs. |
| • 4* Easy to tailor to children's needs |
| • 3* Needs more to support slower learners |
| • 4* It’s particularly good at challenging more able. |
| How well does it engage and motivate pupils? |
| • 4* Resources are fun. |
| • 4* The children love the format |
| • 4* Children do like the reasoning questions and challenges. |
| • 5* Excellent resources |
| • 3* They like Tiny! |
| • 4* There’s a good range of choice of activities |
| How well supported is it by any included formative assessments? |
| • 4* End of unit tests are good. |
| • 4* Easy to see how well the children are doing |
| • 4* End of block assessments are useful |
| • 3* Difficult for mixed age classes |
| • 3* They’re not as relevant towards sats testing as others |
| How well does it support planning? |
| • 5* The planning is clear and sequential |
| • 4* A strength. |
| • 3* Again, needs adapting to children's needs but most resources for any subject do. |
| • 4* Minimal prep needed |
| • 3* Best bit! |
| How well does it support home use / independent learning? |
| • 5* Videos are great. |
| • 5* During lockdown it was invaluable |
| • 3* Children need to use manipulative and don't often have these available at home. |
| • 5* Home learning tasks are great |
| • 3* Used well in lockdown with some modification |
| • 2* There’s a lot of adult support needed so not really appropriate |
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