Drama: Variety is the Spice of Life!
Amy Liptrott, Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland explores the importance of diversity – not just on the stage but front and back of house too!
Helping you navigate GCSE and A level reform with confidence
Curriculum reform is creating significant change across GCSEs and A levels. Following the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, schools need clarity on what’s changing, what it means for students and how to plan with confidence. We’re here to help you navigate that change.
Why partner with Pearson during GCSE and A level reform?
As reform evolves, we’re committed to giving you more than reassurance. We’ll provide clear, practical support you can act on—and qualifications designed to help students progress with confidence. You can expect to have:
- Confidence – trusted qualifications and assessment that support student progression.
- Clarity – straightforward guidance and practical support to help schools plan ahead.
- Coherence – a joined-up approach from Key Stage 3 through to post-16.
- Relevance – qualifications designed around the knowledge, skills and experiences students need for the future.
So you can move forward with confidence, and support every student to succeed, progress and prepare for their future.
Our approach: Student-centred qualifications
At Pearson, we see reform as an opportunity to develop qualifications that are relevant, empowering and fair, helping every student build confidence, make progress and prepare for what comes next. Alongside teachers, we’ve developed these guiding principles to underpin our new, reformed qualifications.
Relevant
Qualifications that connect learning to the real world and reflect the students in your classroom, with inclusive content, meaningful contexts and the right balance of knowledge and skills.
Empowering
Qualifications that build confidence, deepen understanding and support every student’s potential—helping them grow in capability as well as achievement.
Fair
Qualifications that work for all students—and for you—with clear assessment, accessible design and support that helps reduce unnecessary workload.
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How Failure is an Essential Foundation for a Love of Maths
Matt Parker is a renowned stand-up comedian and maths author, with a popular YouTube channel attracting almost one million subscribers. Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt now lives and works in the UK. His new book, Humble Pi, is a Number 1 Bestseller.
Following Matt’s recent appearance on Pearson’s The Right Angle Podcast, Subject Lead and Podcast Host Nicola Woodford-Smith, reflects on their discussion and shares learnings on ways that teachers can foster a passion for maths among learners – not least by encouraging acceptance of mistakes and failures.
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How Abacus fits the new 2022 Curriculum for Wales for Mathematics and Numeracy (with a focus on fluency and logical reasoning)
The 2022 Welsh curriculum in Primary schools
We know that the Welsh curriculum is changing in the new academic year in 2022 for all Primary schools, with Secondary schools to follow in 2023. When it comes to Mathematics and Numeracy in the new curriculum, there are five new Mathematical proficiencies for Welsh Primary schools:
- Conceptual understanding
- Fluency
- Communication with symbols
- Logical reasoning
- Strategic competence
In this blog we are going to look at how Abacus can be used to support the teaching of two of these proficiencies: fluency, and logical reasoning. There is no doubting that these two Mathematical areas are already being developed in Wales in the current curriculum, but the below is a reminder of the fantastic Abacus resources we have on offer to support these two skills.
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