First4Maths Ltd

One of our favourite CPD Sessions to deliver in person. We are able to amend this session to focus on the areas of maths that you are focusing on currently. Yesterday we covered the principles of the CPA approach through calculations and also looked at the links between factors, multiples and fractions. If you are interested in our in-person CPD Sessions, take a look at our website www.first4maths.co.uk or message Toni Priddey for more information. #cpd #cpdtraining #mathscpd #primarymaths

This week we are looking forward to delivering in-person training to our Subject Leaders in two local MATs. We will be providing feedback on moderation, sharing training on how to support in EYFS and providing time to work on their actions with the support of our consultants. Find out more about in-school support here https://lnkd.in/eVSfvRuB #primaryeducation #maths #mathsplanning

Delighted to be working with Wolverham Primary and Nursery School today for their INSET training. We are looking at how to develop children’s independence and confidence in mathematics. Training for all staff this morning and then extra sessions for Teaching Assistants in the afternoon on using the CPA Approach to support children’s understanding.

Our final Zoom session of the term. Join Toni to evaluate the Autumn Term and consider the progression in Division from Year 3 - 6. This is a challenging area that lacks some clarity around what should be taught in each year group so the team we have spent time unpicking all the range of guidance available. We look forward to hearing the thoughts from our Subject Leaders and providing guidance on how to support your KS2 Teachers.

The elves have arrived and been busy... see our previous post to see how this activity can be used in class. This week the team have been... 🔹Supporting the development of a mathematics curriculum with a leadership team in Cardiff. 🔹Supporting a new Subject Leader with their role. 🔹Moderating with Nursery, Reception, Year 3 and Year 4 teachers from a local academy trust. Supporting EYFS Teachers with improving interactions in continuous provision through developing question banks. 🔹Delivering bar modelling training. 🔹Delivering Zoom Sessions on Christmaths activities for teachers from Nursery to Year 6. 🔹Working with a Subject Leader to plan a January INSET Session for Teachers and Teaching Assistants. If you would like to know how we can support your school or MAT, please visit www.first4maths.co.uk

Thanks to Bruche Primary for suggesting this lovely Christmas activity on our Christmas zoom support session. It can be amended to suit different age groups practising number bonds, counting and subitising. Have 10 bricks per child. Roll an adapted die with numbers 1-3 on. Can children subitise or count the dots to see how many bricks to collect? Can they apply the cardinal principle to stop when they have taken the number of bricks they have rolled? Can they count the number of bricks in each wall? Can they apply number bonds to 10 to work out how many more bricks they need to finish their wall? Can they say whose wall has more or fewer bricks? By changing the number of bricks to 9, you can practise bonds to 9 for older children who already know the bonds to 10. You could also use 20 bricks and a standard die or even a teen number to practise bonds within 20. The first child to finish their wall can put the elf or Santa toy on top. Extend the reasoning by discussing the game afterwards. Ask questions like. Which number did you want to roll? Why? If I was really lucky, what is the smallest number of dice rolls I could make to build a wall? Which numbers would I roll? Is there more than one way to do it in that many rolls?

We have combined year groups for this week's Zoom sessions. **Year 5 teachers, please join via Toni's link this week.** We are looking forward to sharing Christmaths activities for you to use in class over the final few days. 🎄🎁⛄

Can’t wait to share our promotional video for First4Maths Academy. The team at Colossal Productions have been amazing from start to finish and I’m so glad that we followed their vision for the style of the video.

We have all been out in-person this week, delivering training, moderating and planning alongside our teachers and Subject Leaders. Here is an overview of what we have been up to. 🔹Delivering Training for Subject Leaders on developing Mental Multiplication and Division 🔹Delivering training to a local MAT on Ensuring Effective Adaptations for children with SEND 🔹Delivering whole school training to support planning and moderation 🔹Recording a training session for Schoot on developing Fluency 🔹Moderating all Year 1-4 teachers from 9 schools in a local MAT 🔹Training teachers on how to use the bar model to develop problem solving 🔹Working with Subject Leaders to develop maths within their schools 🔹Delivering a Zoom support session to First4Maths Academy Year 2 and 5 teachers on developing independence and confidence 🔹Leading a planning workshop for Year 6 Academy members If you would like to book support for your school or MAT, please email, toni.priddey@first4maths.co.uk

A reminder of this week's Zoom sessions. These are the final two year groups to receive training on 'The Effective Use of Teaching Assistants.' Next week's sessions will provide Christmas activities linked to each year group's objectives 🎅