GUEST BLOG: Why I am still an optimist After 20 years teaching there are days when things seem not to be going well.  My year 11 ought to be at their best, working hard to squeeze the most out of every last precious minute, but instead I find too many of them happy to chat and achieve very little.  In the department we seem to be struggling...

MathsAge Over the last couple of years, the team at La Salle Education has been thinking about assessment without levels. National Curriculum Levels served a purpose in their original guise – a way of suggesting that mathematics is an interconnected subject, where the learning of a concept rests firmly on the foundations of earlier concepts,...

Complete Mathematics – Summer Term 2015 What a year it has been so far.  With thousands of teachers getting involved in Complete Mathematics through our ‘Research Schools’ project, the National Mathematics Teacher Conferences and our regional CPD roadshows, ITE and TeachFirst students learning their craft with the support of collaborating...

Virtual mathematics environment for all SSAT schools A new collaboration will engage SSAT schools with Complete Mathematics, a virtual teaching and learning environment created by La Salle Education. SSAT schools will contribute to the further research and development of Complete Mathematics to ensure that the tool offers teachers of mathematics...