Fay Sheppard

Education Director @Sparxmaths and @Sparxlearning. Over 15 years of experience working with maths departments and leaders.

[The King's School @PATKingsSchool]

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

[Bronte Girls' Secondary Academy @BronteGirls]

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 ➗️➕️👩‍🎓

[Bay Leadership Academy @BayLeadershipAc]

📊 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

[Donal Hale @HaleDonal]

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

[@FairfaxEnglish @fairfaxenglish]

Amazing work from our Year 7 and 8 students with @SparxReader this year!
@FairfaxSchool @Fairfax_MAT

[The Royal Sutton School @TRSSchool]

Coming soon…we will be presenting badges to our top Sparx Readers in our Year group Success Assemblies ⭐️#sparxreader @SparxReader

[Bronte Girls' Secondary Academy @BronteGirls]

Our students embrace a range of experiences outside of the classroom as you can see from our X posts BUT they also know how to work hard. Check out how much Maths they have completed this year! Superb! 11,825 hours! @SparxMaths #MathsIsWhereItIsAt 📘➕️➗️

[Mrs B Arnold @MrsBArnold]

Amazing stats @FraminghamEarl for your Maths. @SparxMaths

[Fay Sheppard @FDSheppard]

Exciting opportunity to access this excellent resource!

[Daniel Gosselin @mrdjgosselin]

📢 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!

[Becky Allen @profbeckyallen]

🚀 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 https://t.co/OF3GTucRIG

[Axiom Maths @AxiomMaths]

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

[Axiom Maths @AxiomMaths]

🎉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! https://t.co/C0pszJOC3z
#MathsExcellence#STEM#RealiseYourPower

[Rebekah Ramsden @Rebekah_Ramsden]

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 🤩

[Colin Hegarty @hegartymaths]

Awesome thread on building reading habits...👇

[Sparx Reader @SparxReader]

📚Changing reading habits at secondary school – @HaleDonal and @Hancol190216 spoke with us about how @trinityacademyL is transforming students' reading culture. Here are 5 ways: 🧵👇

[Kate Pretsell @KatePretsell]

This is an *amazing* opportunity to have a very unique and creative role in a superb organisation:
https://t.co/LkHYevOImV

[Prof Becky Francis @BeckyFrancis7]

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

[David Thomas @dmthomas90]

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.

🧵...

[Richard Tutt @richardtutt]

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%

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

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.

https://t.co/fJBzRalm2m