A mastery-based school
Children move on when they have mastered it, not when the term ends.
Aten School is a whole-school curriculum built on one idea: a child advances on evidence of understanding, at their own pace, in every subject. It has its own curriculum, mapped to the frameworks families already know, and it is being built for children anywhere in the world.
Objective
Recognise a unit fraction as one of the equal parts of a whole.
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Mon 12 Oct
Folded paper strips into equal parts and named a half and a quarter.
With a prompt -
Thu 15 Oct
Shaded one equal part of shapes not seen before and wrote it as a fraction.
Independent -
Tue 20 Oct
Shared a loaf fairly between four people and explained why each piece is one quarter.
Independent · new situation
What makes it different
A school built around what a child can actually do
Mastery, not seat time
No subject is finished because the calendar says so. Progress is recorded against specific objectives, and a child moves on when the evidence shows an idea is secure.
Its own curriculum
The Aten Standard is one curriculum across eleven subjects, written objective by objective and mapped to national frameworks rather than copied from any one of them.
Built for anywhere
One school for children in any country. Each country is a localisation of the same curriculum, with its own money, places and frameworks. Ghana is the first.
A person decides
Every lesson is reviewed and approved by a person before a child uses it, and every decision that a child has mastered something is made by the adult working with them, never by software alone.
Where things stand
Aten School is being built now.
It began as the school one family is building for its own children. The curriculum is written first for Stage 3 and Stage 5, and every lesson is reviewed by a person before it is used. It will open to other families once it has proven itself with the family it started with.