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Springboard 5: Catch-up programme for children in Year 5
The materials have been designed as a stand-alone 10-week course to be delivered to children in groups of 8-12. Some schools will receive funding to support the Springboard 5 initiative. Year 5 teachers in other schools may decide to deliver the course in full or to draw on the materials for use with children who do not have a sufficiently firm grasp of the groundwork required for the Year 5 teaching programme.
Springboard 5 consists of ten weekly units of work, preferably for use in the autumn and spring terms. There is a 50-minute lead session and a 45-minute follow-up session that consolidates the work introduced in the lead session and, in some cases, takes it a small step further. Three photocopiable activity sheets are provided for each unit of work. One of these is introduced in the main lesson and another in the follow-up session. The third can be completed by children requiring further consolidation or as revision at a later stage. There is also a short weekly homework task to be completed between the lead lesson and the follow-up session.
The units of work cover carefully selected teaching objectives in number taken from the Year 4, and sometimes the Year 3, teaching programmes. It is essential that children meet these objectives if they are to tackle with confidence the key objectives of the Year 5 and 6 teaching programmes, and obtain a level 4 in the Key Stage 2 national tests. Each unit has a detailed lesson plan for both the lead lesson and the follow-up session with a teaching assistant. Teaching objectives, vocabulary and resources are listed as well as teaching points and key questions. Each lesson and follow-up session follows the three-part lesson model developed by the National Numeracy Strategy.
Teaching Time
The materials are designed with the assumption that the lead lesson of 50 minutes is taught by a teacher, probably the Year 5 class teacher or the SENCO, and the follow-up session of 45 minutes is led by a teaching assistant. The lead lesson and follow-up session are in addition to the daily mathematics lesson for Year 5 in which the identified children should also participate. Each school will decide when the Springboard 5 lesson and the follow-up session take place. It may be possible to find temporary slots during the school day for the 10 weeks of the course. Alternatively, you could establish a breakfast or after school club which meets twice a week. Schools with a long lunch break may be able to hold sessions at this time of day.
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