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Improvement in attainment in literacy and numeracy, closing the gap, improving health and wellbeing and
improvement in employability and sustained positive school leaver destinations.
Steven will introduce the Making Maths Count in Renfrewshire Conference. He will outline the
present landscape, the vision for Renfrewshire and the plans for the day. Steven will mention the
headline results of our extensive HIGIOS 4 self-evaluation, What you told us, what we have done and
what we are going to do. He will inform the conference of the new maths blog and encourage all to
take part in the twitter challenge throughout the day. Finally Steven will introduce The Things we are
getting right in Renfrewshire video.
Maureen will deliver the key messages from the Making Maths Count report and the Scottish
government agenda to drive this forward. Maureen will challenge all maths teachers to look at their
practice, attitudes approach and encourage all to continue to promote the subject and take forward
the messages from The Making Maths Count Report.
Stuart will share with staff key messages on challenge and improvement through self-evaluation
using How good is our school? 4th Edition. Increase staff awareness of recent changes to inspection
and provide an update on Insight and the Scottish National Standardised Assessment.
Pat and Lynne will introduce the landscape from the primary, attainment challenge perspective.
Allison will talk to staff about developing a growth mind set as practitioners and how we can develop
a growth mind set in our pupils. This will be maths focused and related directly to secondary maths
teachers. The idea is to leave all staff with a positive challenging message that we can really improve
attainment through this approach.
Billy will sum up the days events at the conference and provide information on the work that he is
doing with The Making Maths Count group.
Billy will leave everyone with a challenge to take away and change one thing that you can share on
twitter and The Maths Blog.
Lorna (former head teacher) has been a member of the National Numeracy and Mathematics Team
at Education Scotland for 3 years and is currently the team lead.
Lorna will talk about the role of numeracy and mathematics in Curriculum for Excellence, Making
Maths Count, Read, Write Count and Education Scotlands online resources. She will share the latest
national developments in numeracy and mathematics with staff with a focus on how using the
benchmarks will support staff in assessment, moderation and sharing the standard.
Workshop 2
Lyndsey has been working as Education Officer Literacy with Education Scotland, taking forward
national developments in literacy. Lyndsey will share her experience, the national picture and share
with you some simple, but effective ways to bring literacy into the maths classroom now.
Lynne has been supporting local authorities making effective use of scholar to support staff, parents
and pupils through the senior phase. This is an underutilised resource particularly in mathematics
that has been shown to have a big impact on pupils attainment.
Workshop 4
(NIF key priority Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children)
Graham and Stephen have been working successfully together to improve engagement and
achievement with pupils who have traditionally found maths challenging and have switched off.
Using a CGI approach, they have made a big impact on the achievements and attitudes of many of
their most disengaged young people.
to ensure
(All NIF key priorities. Improvement in attainment in numeracy, Closing The gap, Improving Health and Wellbeing and
Improvement in employability and sustained positive school leaver destinations)
Bernadette will share her experience of effective tracking and monitoring as a PT Maths and now in
her capacity as DHT and time tabler. She will discuss the challenges of ensuring that based on robust
evidence, we create flexible pathways through mathematics to ensure that pupils maximise their
attainment through the senior phase developing skills for learning life and work leading to positive
and sustained destinations.
Workshop 6
Margie and Robert have extensive experience in leading teams involved in marking higher maths and
they are going to share this expertise with you to show you how to effectively use this knowledge to
improve classroom practice and attainment.
Workshop 7
Dougie as advanced higher setter is going to share his wealth of experience in teaching and
delivering advanced higher maths to maximise attainment.
to raise attainment
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David and members of his department are going to share with you tips and ideas to make effective
use of technology in the classroom.
Workshop 9
Gary is going to share with you his approach to the BGE focusing on mastery. They have been
working on this for almost two years now and are starting to see results.
Workshop 10
Transitions
Annemarie Mullen and staff, Gryffe High School
In addition to her PT post at Todholme Primary, Lynne has been working as Development Officer
Numeracy in Renfrewshire for the last four years. Lynne is going to provide a snapshot of the
numeracy/maths developments in early years/ primary in the authority over the last few years and
provide us with information on how SEAL and Number Talks are having an impact in the primary.
Workshop 12
My Maths
Trinity High School, Mathematics Department
Trinity High School maths department will share their approaches to using my maths software to
enhance teaching and learning in mathematics and improve parental engagement.
Workshop 13
Flipped Learning
Kirsty Davidson and Andrew Sutherland Renfrew high school
Flipped learning is a new ICT strategy that a great number of schools across authorities are adopting
to support and encourage pupils to take more responsibility for their own learning.
Kate has introduced this into Renfrew High school and will be demonstrating this along with A
Sutherland PT Maths.
National 5 Mathematics
Jenna has just recently moved to Renfrewshire Council from Midlothian. She brings with her a
wealth of experience and is going to share with us her tips on effective teaching and learning and
marking National 5 Mathematics.
Workshop 15
Differentiation
Dominic Ferla, St Josephs College, Dumfries
Using Effective Differentiation in the maths Classroom to Meet the Needs of all Learners and
Dominic will share with us his approaches to delivering effective differentiation in the classroom and
the impact.