National Numeracy Schools and Families Programme

This year, we are working with the charity ‘National Numeracy’ on their Schools and Family Maths programme.  This programme aims to:

• Boost number confidence among both adults and children.
• Increase children’s positive feelings about maths, and awareness of its value outside the classroom.
• Enhance adult’s confidence in supporting children with maths, both at home and in school.

 

Maths Scrapbooks - Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are currently completing family maths activities in their scrapbooks.  For more information about these, please follow the link to see the leaflet that we sent home with the scrapbooks:

Maths scrapbook leaflet for parents & carers

 

'Help Your Child Love Maths' workshop

Our first workshop was held in January.  Details of any future workshops will be sent home in the usual ways and will also be posted here.

Here are some of the handouts from the workshop, which contain some really useful advice:

Help Your Child Love Maths - Top Tips

Talking Positively About Maths

Pointing Out Maths In The Real World

 

Would you like to improve your own confidence?

However you feel about maths, and whatever your number skills are like, you can still help your child be positive about maths and support their learning.

Some people feel more comfortable about doing that by working on their own
number confidence. 

The National Numeracy Challenge is an online learning tool for adults who have low confidence in their maths skills: www.nnchallenge.org.uk/fmt

It’s free to register: all you need is an email address and a password. You can then take a quick check of your skills, which usually takes around 10 minutes.

After doing the quick check, you will see some online resources.  These are
designed to help and support you.

Remember, you don’t have to be a maths genius to help your child with maths.  However, becoming more confident with numbers can only be a good thing.

Even if you find things difficult, you are showing your child that everyone can learn and get better at maths and finding things hard is a normal part of the learning process, for both adults and children.