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Springboard 4: Catch-up programme for children in Year 4

Audience:	Key Stage 2 teachers
Date of issue:	Jun. 2001
Reference number:	DfES0092/2001

What is it?

Springboard 4 is intended for those children in Year 4 who achieved level 2c in the Key Stage 1 national tests in mathematics and who, with extra help, are likely to catch up and achieve level 3 by the end of Year 4. It 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 Year 4 and beyond;
to set the expectation that these children catch up with their peers;
to help teachers to prepare a teaching programme enabling children to fully benefit from the main teaching programme for Year 4 as soon as possible.

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.