New maths school set to launch in Cambridge in 2023
The school will also maintain strong industry links by working in partnership with key employers in the region to deliver careers advice and support
Submitted for publication in the Cambridge News by Clare Hargraves, Project and Curriculum Lead for Cambridge Maths School
A new Cambridge Maths School, set for launch in 2023, will bring an innovative new addition to the region’s education landscape.
The specialist mathematics sixth form, a partnership school with the University of Cambridge, will serve the whole of the East Anglia with a pioneering approach to post-secondary provision, which focuses on building attainment in mathematics and linked disciplines.
Through an enhanced mathematics curriculum, Cambridge Maths School students will be supported into accessing mathematics and mathematical sciences in higher education, while also benefitting from enrichment opportunities developed in partnership with the University of Cambridge.
The school will also maintain strong industry links by working in partnership with key employers in the region to deliver careers advice and support, inspirational lectures and enrichment opportunities as well as work experience opportunities for the students.
Although based in Cambridge, students will be welcomed from an extended catchment area across the East Anglia region, diversifying the sixth form provision in the region significantly.
The experiences of continuing to educate students through lockdown using remote learning technologies has had a significant impact on plans for the school’s extensive outreach programme.
Originally, the outreach programme was built around the idea of bringing groups of students into the school to experience some of the lectures, lessons and enrichment opportunities on offer, and that this would be supplemented by a regular programme of visitation by outreach workers and teachers from the school to secondary schools across the region to keep them informed about the opportunities on offer through the Cambridge Maths School.
The school is planning to develop an extensive outreach programme which supports mathematics attainment and broadening the reach of promoting mathematics specialism throughout the region.
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