Maths in Context

All teaching staff across the school.

The training focuses on using Working Walls to their full potential. By creating a pathway through the planning, teachers create a genuine teaching and learning sequence. Teachers learn how to create an audience, provide the children with a purpose for the work, include real-life situations and problem-solving activities to provide meaning and context.

The training is then followed up with 1:1 sessions with teachers to plan a Working Wall together and draw it out on paper to act as a plan. Sam Adams also provides a follow-up staff meeting with a whole-school Learning Walk. This allows each teacher to ‘host’ the other staff and take three to four minutes to explain how they have developed their Working Wall over time – focussing on the mainly positive aspects, which are collated and shared with all staff.

The training ensures a whole-staff message and the 1:1s provide a genuine opportunity to talk through a plan and to develop a creative, fun way of ‘doing Maths’ thinking about audience and purpose. The results are fantastic classroom environments that support learning.