Classroom Secrets summary review

Date: 11.07.2022

Average star rating: 4.0/5

Overview comments:

• Really good and neat and tidy resources

• It covers so many subjects- it's great.

• It is used with other resources but not stand alone.

• Very good to show mastery in maths

• Search function could be easier to use

• Good quality resource - have and will continue to use

• This is a very good resource that supports planning and teaching well

• Some more open ended questions would be appreciated.

How well does it match the curriculum?

• 4* Not a scheme we follow but dip in and out for activities

• 5* It is really good, and easy to use.

• 4* Coverage on the website seems inline with Nat Curr expectations.

• 4* Particularly useful for SPaG

• 4* Follows the curriculum

• 5* Really good for mastery

• 5* Good range of tasks

• 5* The range, from lower ability to greater depth and everything in between, is the best thing about it.

• 5* All fits with White Rose Hub which we also use

• 5* It has great lesson content and worksheets that are differentiated.

• 4* Matches White Rose well

• 4* This is particularly true for Maths.

• 4* It runs along the national curriculum, giving you links to differentiation.

• 4* It is excellent for greater depth standard within the curriculum.

• 4* Matches White Rose

• 4* Can generally find resources that match my needs

• 4* The resources available support the classroom leaning well and therefore save teachers’ time in planning and preparing lessons

• 4* Follows NC and White Rose steps

• 4* Covers curriculum progression as necessary

• 4* Good at being matched to White Rose

• 4* It covers well and sets out as developing, expected and greater depth.

• 4* It provides everything that you need

• 4* Some mistakes!

• 3* good coverage of NC objectives

• 3* Good enough

• 2* It does not grasp the concept of mastery in mathematics

• 3* Similar depth in questions and links to SATs

How could it be improved to support different learners?

• 4* Varied activities

• 4* Good variety of levels of work to do.

• 5* Has work from year 1 to 6

• 4* Activities have a range of ability

• 5* Pleased with the range of differentiation although could be through more varied ways rather than just bigger numbers

• 5* Wide range of resources for all abilities

• 5* Clearly differentiated tasks

• 4* One of the main strengths.

• 5* All Learning objectives are differentiated

• 4* Full range of resources for differentiated classrooms.

• 5* Very well with the various colours

• 4* Teachers find the resources enable them to meet the needs of the range of abilities in their classes

• 2* Often what is called ‘greater depth’ are just larger numbers. That’s not greater depth.

• * Differentiation needs further work. The level of challenges does not draw necessarily on mathematical concepts, but rather just increasing size of numbers at times

• 4* try, apply and deep questions

• 4* Three levels is great.

• 5* It provides lots of different representations to problems

• 4* Sometimes just use bigger numbers

• 4* breaks each objective 3 ways

• 4* Good differentiation

• 3* Enough content for pupils

• 2* Differentiation beyond size of numbers is limited

• 4* Always at least 3 levels of differentiation

How well does it engage and motivate pupils?

• 4* Lots of different topics

• 3* Sometimes appears rather wordy and repetitive

• 3* To be honest I only use it for extension purposes.

• 4* Children are interested but needs to include an explanation of terms first

• 4* Pupils engage with the questions

• 4* Enjoy working through the stages and challenging themselves

• 3* It can get a bit repetitive if overused.

• 4* Children like the range of questions well presented

• 5* Children like the challenge of the sheets especially the problem solving

• 5* Children are engaged and motivated with the material

• 4* Teaching pupils with ASD the slightly formulaic structure supports them well.

• 4* The fact that it is so well differentiated

• 5* High quality resources

• 5* Children choose and challenge themselves

• 4* Pupils are typically well engaged

• 4* The resources are engaging

• 3* Quite well. The repetition can be comforting

• 4* Had no issues in engagement of using resources

• 4* Children like the format of the questions

• 4* Children engage but activities can be quite short.

• 4* Children appreciate the format being similar most of the time

• 4* children appear to enjoy

• 4* Bit boring and nothing too exciting but good coverage

• 4* It is often easy for them but does not build understanding or application

• 2* Similar type of responses required. Creativity and variety left to teacher

How well supported is it by any included formative assessments?

• 3* It's not linked well to ARE, but it is ok for teacher assessment.

• 3* Assessment opportunities are available through compression tasks but limited in writing and spag.

• 3* Would be better if it had end of topic tests

• 4* The tasks are used part of formative assessment

• 5* Used to inform formative assessment

• 4* Good resource to make quick in-lesson assessments

• 4* Marksheets are accompanied but there are regular mistakes in them

• 3* Need to follow WRM

• 4* Clear and well matched content

• 4* Assessment tasks available.

How well does it support planning?

• 3* Unknown as we don’t use it for this

• 5* All there for you.

• 4* Lots of relevant material to save time.

• 4* Can be used as a framework and linked to resources.

• 3* Especially in the early days when I was unsure of some of the terminology

• 3* We have to do our own so difficult to comment

• 4* Pretty self-explanatory and well sequenced.

• 4* It works well alongside other resources

• 5* It matches the White Rose scheme

• 5* Gives guides and PowerPoints

• 4* Well matched to the curriculum

• 5* Matches White Rose

• 5* Saves me time

• 4* This saves teachers a lot of preparing time

• 4* Useful for planning topics

• 4* Good PowerPoints linked to the tasks

• 3* It matches what we need most of the time.

• 4* We just use it and annotate it

• 4* easy to follow and saves time finding resources

• 4* Used as an add on rather than main planning

• 5* Everything you need

• 2* Teachers can think it is good and be taken away from what is actually useful

• 3* Provides a basis for planning but need to edit to for needs of class and school

What improvements could make this better value for money?

• 4* It's not as expensive as some

• 5* good monthly price for access to all materials.

• 4* Can be used across topics e.g. maths so presents opportunity for a range of resources

• 3* It is quite cheap for a vast amount of resources

• 4* Good value for money

• 3* Expensive if funding yourself as a teacher

• 4* Reasonably pricey but there is a lot of content

• 5* Quite cheap for the amount of stuff you get.

• 5* Really well priced

• 4* Paid for personally, so highly valued

• 4* Provides a fair value for money

• 4* Really worth the money.

• 4* I have a personal subscription

• 4* Reasonable price and competitive

• 2* Ofsted and County would consider a lesson unsatisfactory if they saw Classroom Secrets being used

• 3* Good as one of several resources to dip into.

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