Securing the Fundamentals

Year 7 gaps become
year 11 problems.

See them coming.

Securing the Fundamentals gives you a bank of curriculum matched questions to find exactly what hasn't landed, and ready built therapy to close it.

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KS3 doesn't have the checkpoints it once did

Around 40% of students arrive at secondary school without the foundational knowledge they need to build on (DfE, 2025). KS3 has no formal check to catch it, so the gap surfaces at GCSE or A-level instead of year 7.

The intervention trap: Gaps not caught early eat into year 11 and year 13.
Not just three subjects: Maths, literacy and oracy sit underneath every subject a student takes.
It takes the whole school: Assume the fundamentals belong to another department and they stay unowned.

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