Teachers - Primary - Numeracy

Intervention Programmes

Springboard is a catch-up programme for children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 7. The materials focus on key areas of number. They provide additional tuition for small groups of children outside the daily mathematics lesson (DML) during the weeks when these areas are being taught in the DML.

Springboard aims:

• to support the identified children and to remedy particular weaknesses in number so that they are in a better position to access and benefit from the teaching programme in their Year and beyond;
• to set the expectation that these children catch up with their peers;
• to help teachers prepare a teaching programme enabling children to benefit fully from the main teaching programme for their Year as soon as possible.
  

Springboard 3 | Springboard 4 | Springboard 5 | Springboard 6 |

2.) Wave 3

Supporting Children with Gaps in their Mathematical Understanding

The Wave 3 materials are aimed mainly at KS2 children and focus on the most commonly occurring types of mathematical difficulties with number and calculation. They follow the principles for successful Wave 3 intervention that have been identified by research and provide a model that can be used by any adult working with a child who has demonstrated the need for Wave 3 intervention. They are not intended to be worked through from start to finish as a self-contained programme.

Wave 3 aims:

• to develop practice in supporting children’s mathematical development and self-confidence by providing a suggested model for Wave 3 mathematics intervention.
• to support the identification of specific areas of mathematics that can prevent children achieving expected levels of progress.
• to increase children’s rates of progress by using targeted approaches to tackle fundamental errors and misconceptions.
• to reduce the proportion of children achieving below level 3 in mathematics by the end of KS2.