Education Director @Sparxmaths and @Sparxlearning. Over 15 years of experience working with maths departments and leaders.
Joined June 2022
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
16 Jul 2025
Congratulations to our 2024-25 Sparx Maths Stars for earning the most XP points this year!
⭐️ Year 7 - Sienna L
⭐️ Year 8 - Sophie O
⭐️ Year 9 - Amelia J
⭐️ Year 10 - Maria R
⭐️ Year 11 - Matilda M-G
#Congratulations #MathsSuperstars @SparxMaths
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
15 Jul 2025
Our students have been fully in their @SparxMaths this year! Our star pupils have received recognition for their committment to learning and developing their fluency in maths. Superb. #MathsIsWhereItIsAt ➗️➕️👩🎓
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
2 Jul 2025
📊 Incredible impact from our pupils this year with @SparxLearning!
💥 Over 1.3 MILLION questions answered in Maths – we’ve got Sparx Maths Millionaires!
📚 38M words read
🔬 809k science questions cracked
Proud, focused & flying high! 🌟
#BayLeadership #Achievement #EdTech
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
1 Jul 2025
Delighted to receive our @SparxReader 2025 Impact Report for @TrinityAcademyL. 💜🌟
📖 87 ,950, 920 words read.
⏳12,680 hours of careful reading.
📚 6, 334 books completed.
✅ 1, 424, 682 reading checks.
#ReadersareLeaders
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
30 Jun 2025
Amazing work from our Year 7 and 8 students with @SparxReader this year!
@FairfaxSchool @Fairfax_MAT
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
30 Jun 2025
Coming soon…we will be presenting badges to our top Sparx Readers in our Year group Success Assemblies ⭐️#sparxreader @SparxReader
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26 Jun 2025
RT @BronteGirls: Our students embrace a range of experiences outside of the classroom as you can see from our X posts BUT they also know ho…
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
26 Jun 2025
Amazing stats @FraminghamEarl for your Maths. @SparxMaths
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22 May 2025
Exciting opportunity to access this excellent resource!
22 May 2025
📢 New FREE resources
With no clear marker of scientific knowledge in year 6 it is tempting to underestimate them - but we shouldn't be! We should assess this knowledge and fill gaps - and we can help you with our new Year 7 baseline.
Repost and message me to get access!
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
19 Feb 2025
🚀 Matthew Evans @head_teach and I have launched 100% Assessment, a Substack dedicated to exploring assessment in schools.
We'll be posting weekly insights for everyone, from teachers through to Heads and Assessment Leads.
Find us here 100assessment.substack.com/
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
18 Feb 2025
How do we build a maths circle culture that keeps pupils engaged? 💡
✅ Team effort: group activities
✅ Boost self-esteem: effort > outcome
✅ Engage parents and carers: share achievement with home
✅ Recognise achievement: Rewards like badges/water bottles
What works for you?👇 #MathsEducation #Mentoring
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
27 Jan 2025
🎉Excited to announce applications are open to partner with us! Our fully-funded programme aims to challenge and inspire your pupils with mathematical content so they can realise their power⚡
⭐Join the journey! axiommaths.com/sign-up/?subj…
#MathsExcellence#STEM#RealiseYourPower
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Sparx Reader, maths and Science are integral to @astreaacademies approach to fluency and are set for all scholars as homework every week. We are now seeing the impact of this in scholar's knowledge retention and academic outcomes. Such a great tool to raise achievement 🤩
🌟Well done to our Sparx Reader superstars! 🌟
These scholars have all received at least 25,000 SRP this academic year so far! Reading is power 👏👏👏
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Awesome thread on building reading habits...👇
8 Nov 2024
📚Changing reading habits at secondary school – @HaleDonal and @Hancol190216 spoke with us about how @trinityacademyL is transforming students' reading culture. Here are 5 ways: 🧵👇
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
8 Nov 2024
📚Changing reading habits at secondary school – @HaleDonal and @Hancol190216 spoke with us about how @trinityacademyL is transforming students' reading culture. Here are 5 ways: 🧵👇
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
6 Nov 2024
This is an *amazing* opportunity to have a very unique and creative role in a superb organisation:
sparx.recruitee.com/o/commun…
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
23 Oct 2024
The Easy Read version of the Curriculum and Assessment Review's Call for Evidence is now available:
Curriculum and Assessment Review - Department for Education - Citizen Space
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
21 Oct 2024
We surveyed Y6 pupils to find out how they felt about school and maths before coming to secondary school, and found four disadvantage gaps that I wasn't expecting to see.
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21 Oct 2024
New blog: The disadvantage gap in Y6 pupils' experience of maths.
We asked Y6s about school and maths this summer, and found big disadvantage gaps in their experience of problem-solving, maths anxiety, and whether school makes them a better person.
axiommaths.com/blog/the-disa…
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
18 Oct 2024
We've had a very strong half term with @SparxMaths.Great to see our trust values of scholarship and tenacity being lived.
@Astrea_Sparx Top 5 leaderboard this week:
1️⃣@Netherwood_Acad 88.2%🎆
2️⃣@LongsandsNews 87.9%
3️⃣@AstreaErnulf 87.3%
4️⃣@StIvoAcademy 86.4%
5️⃣@AstreaDearne 84.6%
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Fay Sheppard retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Nearly 5,000 views in two weeks for this ~9 minute video introducing teachers to the most important things to know about reading.
Thanks to everyone who has watched and/or shared it.
youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?si=rnLj…
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