This course aims to develop teachers’ ability to vary tasks to meet the needs of greater depth pupils within their class. Teachers will explore strategies, task design and questioning to enable pupils to deepen their knowledge and understanding.

Learning outcomes:

• To analyse pupil’s efficiency with mental strategies when solving arithmetic questions to inform future number fact fluency planning needs.
• To understand how to vary tasks to develop a deeper knowledge and understanding when reasoning and problem solving.
• To understand what makes a good task and develop questioning to ensure pupils have opportunity to justify and prove their thinking.
• To assess pupil work and make judgements regarding next steps. Teachers will then vary tasks according to assessment for learning.

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Mathematics Greater 24-25

Price: Sub £120 / SLA £75 / Full £144 

This course will explore the effective use of the Pre-Year 1 to Year 3 SEND Planning Tools in mathematics. The documents have been written to outline the knowledge, concepts and strategies needed to progress from the Early Years Foundation Stage to the Year 3 curriculum. The Planning Tool is specifically for pupils with SEN.  

The course will consider: 

• Effective pedagogy in mathematics
• Diagnostic assessment 
• Developing pupil independence 

Delegates will have time to reflect on the needs of a child they are teaching and create a bespoke plan for the child. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: SEND Planning Tool 

Price: Sub £175 / SLA £135 / Full £210 

This course, aimed at Year 3/4 class teachers and maths leaders, over two face-to-face half-day sessions will provide practical ideas to implement within classroom practice to ensure accelerated progress in mathematics, for pupils assessed as ‘working towards’.   

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Accelerated Progress

Price: Sub £250 / SLA £160 / Full £300 

A three-session course for teachers in lower KS2 to support progress and attainment in maths and English.  

Following the removal of statutory assessment in KS1, this course is focused on curriculum planning, as well as aspects of teaching and learning, to support the progress of all children in Years 3 and 4 by exploring and reverse engineering the six-term journey from end of Year 2 to the start of upper KS2. Delegates will explore the demands of the KS1 curriculum, how to build on this and the key priorities to secure in English and maths and develop pupil profiles to support confident professional conversations around progress and attainment. 

This course is designed to strengthen future progress and attainment at the end of KS2. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Progress Attainment

Price: Sub £420 / SLA £260 / Full £504 
Part 1 – Sub £280 / SLA £175 / Full £336 
Part 2 – Sub £140 / SLA £85 / Full £168

This course aims to develop teachers’ pedagogy on the various approaches to teaching the skills needed for effective problem solving – one of the main aims of the National Curriculum. Teachers will have the opportunity to explore the different styles of problems which enable children to develop and embed their mathematical skills.  

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Problem Solving

Price: Sub £110 / SLA £75 / Full £132