Curriculum EveningBuckstone Primary

3rd November 2015

Pourquoi 1 + 2 ???

2 parts to our approach:

Embedded language

Choice Topics

Our Current Cluster Provision

Nursery – P5: in-class embedded and topic approach to French from their class teacher

Primary 6 & 7: specialist session of either French or German for 45 minutes per week and embedded language opportunities from their class teacher

2016 – 2017 Provision

Nursery – P6: in-class embedded and topic approach to French from their class teacher

Primary 5 & 6: specialist session in German for 45 minutes per week.

Primary 7: specialist session of either French or German for 45 minutes per week and embedded language opportunities from their class teacher

2017 – 2018 Provision

Nursery – P7: in-class embedded and topic approach to French from their class teacher

Primary 5 -7: specialist session in German for 45 minutes per week.

2020

Full implementation in the

Boroughmuir Cluster

A sense of self worth

Lifelong Learner

Social Being

From the early stages onwards, children and young people should experience success in mathematics and develop the confidence to take risks, ask questions and explore alternative solutions without fear of being wrong. They will enjoy exploring and applying mathematical concepts to understand and solve problems, explaining their thinking and presenting their solutions to others in a variety of ways.

Mathematics: Principles and Practice

What are the features of effective learning and teaching in mathematics?

Focus – What do we want the children to learn?

Need for a clear framework to ensure coverage and progression.

Rapid recall

Calculation strategies

Opportunities to explain learning

27+5

An Addition Problem

27 + 5

= 32

Needs to use counters or other concrete materials

Uses a split strategy e.g. 7 + 5 = 12 and then add 20

Uses a jump strategy e.g. 27 + 3 + 2

Counts from one (1,2,3,....,27,28,29,30,31,32)

Counts on in ones from 27 (28,29,30,31,32)

SEAL Maths

Counting forwards and backwards- in ones and multiples

Concrete to screened to abstract

2 elements to answers – the actual answer and the strategy I used to get the answer

Lots of discussion of most appropriate strategies

Classrooms = A Community of Enquiry

Children thinking and solving problems

Children making connections – “It’s nothing new”

Children talking maths

Children asking questions

Maths linked to real life

Resources which encourage all of the above

Children confident in key facts – “Learn Its”

Active Learning

“What I hear, I forget

What I hear and see, I remember a little

What I hear, see and ask questions about or discuss with someone else, I begin to understand

When I hear see, discuss and do, I acquire knowledge and skill

What I teach to another, I master.”

(Active Learning Strategies – Mel Silberman)

Higher Order Thinking

Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analysing

Evaluating

Creating

What will you see this evening? – a snapshot of the opportunities we give to allow children to practise

Nursery games on video

P1 – Games to engage in early number

P2 – Strategies for addition

P3 – Active Learning, strategies for

addition/subtraction

P4 – SEAL strategies

P5 – Learn Its on iPads

P6 – Group active learning for Divisibility

P7 – Enhancing learning through I.C.T - Sumdog

What can I do to help?

Numbers all around – practise maths in a real life context

Number facts

Counting forwards and backwards

Explaining our strategies

“I can’t do it… yet.”