Maths through stories with Shine

We had our first shine workshop last week, We read the story “How long is a whale?” Explored the activities and then the children and their families have enjoyed sharing the pack at home.

 

 

New Academic Year Projects

Maths & SEND

Target Audience: SENDCo (places are limited to one per school)
Programme Outline: Key features of Teaching for Mastery and implications for SEND pupils as well as approaches to supporting pupils to develop counting and number sense will be explored

Location: Bolton Science and Technology Centre
Dates: (all dates must be attended)
Day 1 – Monday 2nd March (9am-3.00pm)
Day 2 – Thursday 26th March (1pm to 4.00pm)
Day 3 – Tuesday 14th May (1pm to 4.00pm)
Day 4 – Thursday 4th June (1pm to 4.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Lesson Design – planning for all learners

Target Audience: Two teachers, who have an understanding of Teaching for Mastery, per school (to include the Maths Lead)
Programme Outline: Teachers in this Work Group will work together to plan exemplar lessons (drawing on new Mastery Professional Development Materials produced by the NCETM and Maths Hubs, and other sources of mastery resources for the classroom including textbooks) and in so doing will improve lesson design across their school

Location: Denton West End Primary
Dates: (all dates must be attended)
Day 1 – Thursday 3rd October (9am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – Thursday 30th January (9am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – Thursday 2nd July (9am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Early Years: Supporting effective transition from Reception to Year 1

Target Audience: This project is aimed at schools who are already committed to teaching for mastery and  have previously engaged in a TfM development workgroup
Programme Outline:
The Work Group in this project will start by exploring best practice in Early Years and how the principles might build a secure foundation in mathematics for transition into a teaching for mastery approach in Year 1. It will consider the curriculum – what children need to know and understand; approaches to planning and the inclusion of all children; and appropriate resources and contexts for effective learning.

Location: TBC

Dates: TBC

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement  – EYFS, Teacher and Teaching Assistant

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement for Early Years Teachers
Target Audience: EYFS Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and  to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will look in detail at:
1. Early Counting and Cardinality,
2. Sets, Sorting and Classifying
3. Developing mathematical language and reasoning
4. Composition and Change
5. Developing Pattern

Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 8th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 19th November (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 3 – 15th January (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 4 – 6th February (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 5 – 12th March (9.15am to 12.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

 

 

 

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement – KS1 Teachers
Target Audience: KS1 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 17th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 14th November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 23rd January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement –  Lower KS2 Teachers
Target Audience: Lower KS2 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: St James’s Teaching School
Dates:
Day 1 – 18th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 18th November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 21st January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement –  Upper KS2 Teachers

Target Audience: Upper KS2 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: Dean Trust Teaching School, Trafford
Dates:
Day 1 – 4th November (9.00am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 11th February (9.00am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 17th March (9.00am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement – Teaching Assistant 
Target Audience: Teaching Assistants
Programme Outline: A key focus will be on improving the participants’ ability to “do” mathematics but also to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. TAs will develop enhanced mathematics subject knowledge with an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics
Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 10th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 21st November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 30th January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

 

 

Year 5 – 8 Transition

Target Audience:  Primary School Teachers and Secondary School Teachers
Programme Outline:  Teachers from different phases will work together in this Work Group, to improve communication between Key Stages 2 and 3. They will have the overall aim of improving continuity of learning by pupils in the four years between Years 5 and 8. Participants in this project will take an aspect of the mathematics curriculum or a pedagogical approach as the focus for their work and develop a consistent approach to it through discussion, joint lesson design and delivery, observation and the development of documentation to support continuity.

New Academic Year Projects

Maths & SEND

Target Audience: SENDCo (places are limited to one per school)
Programme Outline: Key features of Teaching for Mastery and implications for SEND pupils as well as approaches to supporting pupils to develop counting and number sense will be explored

Location: Bolton Science and Technology Centre
Dates: (all dates must be attended)
Day 1 – Monday 2nd March (9am-3.00pm)
Day 2 – Thursday 26th March (1pm to 4.00pm)
Day 3 – Tuesday 14th May (1pm to 4.00pm)
Day 4 – Thursday 4th June (1pm to 4.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Lesson Design – planning for all learners

Target Audience: Two teachers, who have an understanding of Teaching for Mastery, per school (to include the Maths Lead)
Programme Outline: Teachers in this Work Group will work together to plan exemplar lessons (drawing on new Mastery Professional Development Materials produced by the NCETM and Maths Hubs, and other sources of mastery resources for the classroom including textbooks) and in so doing will improve lesson design across their school

Location: Denton West End Primary
Dates: (all dates must be attended)
Day 1 – Thursday 3rd October (9am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – Thursday 30th January (9am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – Thursday 2nd July (9am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Early Years: Supporting effective transition from Reception to Year 1

Target Audience: This project is aimed at schools who are already committed to teaching for mastery and  have previously engaged in a TfM development workgroup
Programme Outline:
The Work Group in this project will start by exploring best practice in Early Years and how the principles might build a secure foundation in mathematics for transition into a teaching for mastery approach in Year 1. It will consider the curriculum – what children need to know and understand; approaches to planning and the inclusion of all children; and appropriate resources and contexts for effective learning.

Location: TBC

 

EYFS, Teacher and Teaching Assistant

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement for Early Years Teachers
Target Audience: EYFS Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and  to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will look in detail at:
1. Early Counting and Cardinality,
2. Sets, Sorting and Classifying
3. Developing mathematical language and reasoning
4. Composition and Change
5. Developing Pattern

Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 8th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 19th November (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 3 – 15th January (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 4 – 6th February (9.15am to 12.00pm)
Day 5 – 12th March (9.15am to 12.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement – KS1 Teachers
Target Audience: KS1 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 17th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 14th November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 23rd January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement –  Lower KS2 Teachers
Target Audience: Lower KS2 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: St James’s Teaching School
Dates:
Day 1 – 18th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 18th November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 21st January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement –  Upper KS2 Teachers

Target Audience: Upper KS2 Teachers
Programme Outline: The focus will be on improving teachers’ understanding of how children learn maths and to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. The workshops will have an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics.

Location: Dean Trust Teaching School, Trafford
Dates:
Day 1 – 4th November (9.00am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 11th February (9.00am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 17th March (9.00am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here

 

Maths Subject Knowledge Enhancement – Teaching Assistant 
Target Audience: Teaching Assistants
Programme Outline: A key focus will be on improving the participants’ ability to “do” mathematics but also to ensure they have the appropriate mathematical knowledge to teach their pupils well. TAs will develop enhanced mathematics subject knowledge with an emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas of mathematics
Location: Corrie Primary School, Tameside
Dates:
Day 1 – 10th October (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 2 – 21st November (9.15am to 3.00pm)
Day 3 – 30th January (9.15am to 3.00pm)
For further information and booking click here