At our Trust, we want to make things happen for our young people. Thanks to this special programme, students across our academies have been building their confidence, challenging themselves, and discovering just how much they can achieve.

Exciting events and big challenges

This year has been packed with activities that brought students together from different regions to learn, compete, and have fun with maths.

• Big revision days: Our Year 11 students from all academies came together for two dedicated revision days designed to help them aim for top grades (Grade 7 or above).

• Friendly competitions: We hosted a Year 10 'MathsFeast' competition and a Year 7 and 8 'Maths Olympics', giving students a fantastic space to team up and solve puzzles.

• University Masterclasses: Our Year 9 students visited top universities for special masterclasses. Students from Merseyside went to the University of Liverpool Maths School, Stoke students visited Keele University, and Greater Manchester students headed to the University of Lancaster Maths School.

Support in our academies every week

Back in our classrooms, the fund has allowed us to offer extra support and exciting new projects every single week.

• Weekly clubs and extra sessions: Our younger secondary students have been enjoying weekly Axiom Maths clubs and fortnightly booster sessions to help raise their skills.

• Stepping up: For students aiming for higher grades, schools offered extra Year 11 revision sessions, Level 2 Further Maths, and even GCSE Statistics in some academies.

• Independent projects: We launched the 'Philomath' project for Year 9 students, encouraging them to lead their own maths research.

• Moving up to secondary school: We created a special maths transition activity to help our Year 6 pupils feel confident and excited about maths as they move up into Year 7.

• Brilliant online tools: Every student across our academies has had access to the Sparx maths homework platform to support their learning at home.

Investing in our teachers

To give our students the best experience, we also invest heavily in our staff. This year, we held a Trust-wide training day where maths teachers from all our academies came together in person to share ideas. We also provided continuous training for our early career teachers, heads of maths, and our Graduate Maths Excellence Specialists.

We are incredibly proud to share that all five of our very first Graduate Specialists are staying with us. From September, they are moving onto salaried teacher training to become fully qualified maths teachers in our academies.

A huge thank you to our community

This programme is proving to be a huge success, and we cannot wait to see it grow next year.

None of this would be possible without our dedicated team, which includes our Maths Directors, Specialist Executive Maths Teacher, and our Graduate Specialists. Driving this forward every day are our fantastic heads of departments, teachers, senior leaders, and headteachers.

Most importantly, we could not achieve any of this without the brilliant support of our students' parents and carers. Thank you for working with us to help our young people succeed.