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Springboard 3: Catch-up programme for children in Year 3
The materials focus on key areas of number. They provide additional tuition for small groups of six to eight children outside the daily mathematics lesson (DML) during the weeks when these areas are being taught in the DML.
The ten units of work are designed to be used flexibly over the first term and a half of the school year. A table on the Index to Units page shows how schools following the planning grids for Year 3 in the Framework for teaching mathematics from Reception to Year 6 can fit in the units over this period.
Each unit consists of two sessions, of 30 minutes each, that are led by a teaching assistant and consolidates the work introduced by the teacher in the DML. The teaching assistant should have worked with the group in the DML before leading the two sessions. In each session, the teaching assistant introduces and explains an activity sheet to be completed before the next Springboard session. It is intended that teachers will mark these before the next session and deal with any misconceptions individuals may have. There is also a short weekly homework task, often a game to be played with a parent or carer.
Each unit covers carefully selected teaching objectives mainly from the Year 2 teaching programme, which children must meet if they are to tackle with confidence the key objectives of the Year 3 programme. There is a detailed plan for each session, following the three-part lesson model developed by the National Numeracy Strategy and based on the teaching strategies outlined in the introduction to the Framework for teaching mathematics from Reception to Year 6. The programme includes detailed teaching points and key questions, and teaching objectives, vocabulary and resources are listed.
Schools receiving funding for catch-up purposes may decide to use it to support the use of these materials with children in Year 3. Year 3 teachers in other schools can decide to deliver the course in full or draw on the materials for use with children who have an insufficiently firm grasp of the groundwork required for the Year 3 teaching programme.
Teaching time
The materials are designed on the assumption that children will be working for several days in the DML on the same topic as in a Springboard unit. The two additional sessions should take place during the same period of time. Each school funded for the Springboard programme and running it in Year 3 should decide when the sessions with a teaching assistant will take place. It may be possible to find temporary slots during the school day for the weeks in which the additional help is required. If not, it may be possible to establish a breakfast or after-school club, or to slot in sessions in the lunch break if time allows.
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