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Helping your daughter

help herselfIndependent Learning with a growth mindset

Year 7 so far

Year 7 were sets were based on actual KS2 score, old KS2 test. Learning Lighthouse skills, Ravens non-verbal reasoning assessment

Setting is fluidAll students in year 7 take common assessments

(roughly every half-term) based on new contentWe also look at Lighthouse & Ninja scoresAny issues contact your daughter’s maths teacher in

the first instance

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Numeracy Ninjas

Times tables and basic arithmetic MASTERY are VERY important

All classes have a 5 minute Ninja test every week in maths

All tutor groups have a 5 minute Ninja every two weeks

NUMERACY

NINJAS

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Home help with the basics

Times Tables Rockstars: all students have a user ID (parents can have an ID if

they request one too)

Ninja Tests are on the moodle and can be found at

www.numeracyninjas.org

https://ttrockstars.com/

Home help with the basics

One of our students on TTR

https://youtu.be/EQOgFsBYQcI

World Record TTR Student

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeLwL7mbGQ

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Back to basics

Learning Lighthouses

Half termly test but the students know

the questions and topics: the only

thing that changes are the numbers.

www.learninglighthouses.webs.com

Back to basics

Learning Lighthouses

Students progress up through this hierarchical system

We start at LL2 and progression takes students to LL9

These use skills appropriate for the equivalent grade in GCSE

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Schemes of Work

Module outlines will be on the new VLE

Students are given a module outline at

the start of each module

They are given a feedback slip after each

assessment (usually based on two

modules)

Pre module

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Post assessment

Getting help at home with class content

All students are issued with accounts on:

Hegarty Maths https://hegartymaths.com/

My Maths https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

They are also encouraged to make use

free sites such as Corbett Maths https://corbettmaths.com/

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Hegarty Maths

Hegarty Maths

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Hegarty Maths

Hegarty Maths

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Independent Review

Revisit a problem and show evidence that they have moved forward.

Possible sources:

Corbett Maths https://corbettmaths.com/

Hegarty Maths https://hegartymaths.com/

Just Maths Online http://online.justmaths.co.uk/

My Maths https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

Using Corbett: watch, do, mark

https://corbettmaths.com/2013/02/06/factorising-quadratics-1/

https://corbettmaths.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/factorising-

quadratics.pdf

https://corbettmaths.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/factorising-quadratics-

pdf2.pdf

Answers

https://corbettmaths.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/factorisation1.pdf

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Encourage, encourage, encourage

Try the problem

Use your class notes

Look online

Then ask for help

Don’t say you….

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Don’t practise until

you get it right,

practise until you

cannot get it wrong.

Extra help

For students under 100 KS2 we have Passport to Maths

2 extra lessons a week for 15 weeks

Withdrawn from one Humanities and one MFL lesson per week

Maths teachers are available after school for tutorials (school expectation of staff is one after school session per fortnight)

Be aware that GCSE students get priority

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United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT)

Students in Set 1 have a half-termly HW using the UKMT

Junior Maths Challenge

Set 2 students can request this too.

This challenge is for Year 7 and 8 students.

Materials can be found here

http://www.ukmt-resources.org.uk/index-tr.html

Junior UKMT (2017 q23)

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Where this leads to in Year 11

GCSE Edexcel 1MA1

3 papers, 90 minutes each

Paper 1 is non-calculator

Papers 2 & 3 are calculator papers

GCSE Edexcel 1MA1

Two tiers of entry

Higher 9 – 4 (allowable 3)

Foundation 5 - 1

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GCSE Edexcel 1MA1

Thanks for coming

Please take time to fill in the review

sheet

Don’t forget that you can contact your

daughter’s maths teacher through

their school e-mail (this is your first

port of call)

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Appendices – all Lighthouse Objectives

Appendices – all Lighthouse Objectives

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Appendices – all Lighthouse Objectives

Appendices – all Lighthouse Objectives

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Appendices – all Lighthouse Objectives