Dates & Time:

Day 1 – Monday 2nd March (9am-3.00pm)

Day 2 – Thursday 26th March (1pm to 4.00pm)

Day 3 – Thursday 14th May (1pm to 4.00pm)

Day 4 – Thursday 4th June (1pm to 4.00pm)

Participants need to attend all of the sessions listed above to participate in the project.

Target Audience: SENDCo

Places are limited to one person per school

Programme Outline:

The programme combines 2 ½ days of face-to-face training with structured in-school gap tasks, readings and activities.

The SENDCo, will be asked to identify 3 case pupils to track over the course of the project, administering a 1:1 diagnostic assessment and trialling a range of activities to explore concepts in more depth.

Day 1 (Counting)

Rationale & outcomes for project / Supporting SEND pupils in the mastery context (exploring the 5 Big Ideas and how these can support teaching mathematics to SEND pupils)

Barriers for SEND pupils (SpLD, SLCN, working memory, cognitive processing)

Early counting (develop pedagogical knowledge and understanding of the early stages of children’s development of counting)

Diagnostic assessment (counting) to find out what the children CAN DO

Case pupils / action planning

Day 2 (Counting & language)

Feedback from gap task

Explore some difficulties SEND pupils might have with mathematical language to support counting

Strategies and activities to support the development of mathematical language

Day 3 (Developing number sense +/-)

Feedback from gap task

Number sense – supporting the development of addition/subtraction

Models and images, mathematical resources and language to support

Day 4 (Developing number sense x/÷)

Feedback from gap task

Number sense – supporting the development of multiplication/division

Models and images, mathematical resources and language to support

Writing case studies/ next steps

Additional Information:

Refreshments - Tea & Coffee will be served during the day, please bring your own lunch

Parking - There is car parking available on site

Maths and SEND