Falkirk Council Early Years Central Team have created a self-led CLPL opportunity for settings to develop their understanding of Natural Numeracy. Accessed via the Glow Share Point its aims are to help settings think about their spaces, experiences, and interactions to develop children’s mathematical understanding. Numeracy and maths is much deeper than counting and recognising numbers. The course takes you through Penny Munn’s maths pyramid for babies and young children and helps you consider how to ensure the spaces, experiences and interactions are developmentally appropriate and purposeful for all learners.
The second part of the course focuses on the Key Concepts of Numeracy and Maths and breaks these concepts down with lots of examples of how these can be promoted in your setting. Throughout the course there are opportunities for you to reflect as a setting and there is an audit to accompany this course which can be used to gain further insight into how your setting promotes these concepts.
Section 3 explores intentional pedagogy, planning to support young children’s early numeracy and maths development. Through core provision, continuous provision, and core experiences it considers what opportunities for high quality interactions, experiences and spaces children have within a setting to develop young children’s numeracy and mathematical skills and understanding. This section also explores maths through stories.
To further support this CLPL we will also be holding a Blether Session based on the course on Wednesday the 23rd February. This is an opportunity to meet with other practitioners and share ideas, thoughts and practice based on elements of the course.
For further information please contact Rachel Keane (Course Organiser).
