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Guide your department towards a stronger Key Stage 3

Lead with greater clarity and confidence to strengthen KS3 in your department. This pathway doesn’t prescribe a single way of teaching. Its curated resources provide a shared starting point for professional discussion, adaptation and curriculum development.

STEP 01

Watch intro videos

Find out about the research that underpins The Ambitious Years. Discover how to help colleagues use the resource materials, and how to confidently address concerns about more demanding work for pupils.

Introduction to The Ambitious Years

Steve Willshaw and Mary Myatt outline the core thinking behind why years 7 to 9 should be reframed as a foundation, not a bridge. This video can be a prompt for your own professional conversations with colleagues about creating anambitious KS3 in your school.

Reframing demanding work

We explore common misconceptions about what pupils can manage, and what they’re actually able to achieve when the conditions are right. Find out how a high challenge low threat environment can strengthen their confidence in approaching demanding texts and open up rich ideas, vocabulary and subject knowledge.

Implementing The Ambitious Years

This video explores how The Ambitious Years resources work in practice. Mary and Steve explain how the teacher and pupil booklets and units are structured, and how they can be used flexibly by departments and curriculum teams to fit in with existing plans.

STEP 02

Complete toolkit

The structured prompts in the Evaluation Toolkit promote reflection and discussion onhow to optimise KS3. Use it with colleagues to identify strengths, surface assumptions and agree practical next steps.

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STEP 03

Take Five Steps

The Five Steps support a better transition in the humanities from Key Stage 2 to KeyStage 3. They help primary and secondary colleagues work together to avoid unnecessary repetition in lessons and make sure learning deepens.

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STEP 04

Download booklets

Ready-to-use teaching materials and pupil booklets that will support your KS3 readingstrategy, help you engage learners and bring your curriculum to life.

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