Courses and Workshops

Margi will lead you in this zoom for getting started with Numicon to allow for a successful introduction. The focus will be on Firm Foundations and Numicon 1 for your Years 0-2. Bring your Teaching Handbooks and implementation Guides with you. If you are a newcomer to Numicon make sure you join our Introduction to Numicon course online too.

Margi will lead you in the best way to get started with Numicon. Bring your Teaching Handbooks and Implementation Guides with you. If you are a newcomer to Numicon, join the introduction course online too.

Are you curious about some of those plastic shapes with holes you have seen in the maths resource room? Have you heard of Numicon but never seen it being used? Are you ready to make maths more real and more accessible for all of your tamariki - and yourself? Please join Jo for an online zoom session and see Numicon in Action. You will learn about the structured apparatus and why children succeed in maths when they use it. You will taste the Numicon Teaching Program and how it integrates researched learning theory to make teaching maths easy, inclusive and achieve results.

This is an online course over three afternoons - Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 February and Monday 21 February. Your booking covers all three events. This course is suitable for any teacher joining the Numicon journey or those wanting a refresher. If you are new to a school using Numicon, this is perfect for you. Please have available your Numicon teaching and hands-on resources. We will send you more details closer to the event. If you are needing to purchase any of these resources to use before the event, make sure you order in time for them to arrive. Day 1 - What is Numicon and Mastery approach? Using the hands- on resources Day 2 - Using the teaching resources to set up your classroom and begin planning Day 3 - Planning a week of lessons, developing an awareness of formative while you are teaching, where to go next.

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Jo will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA

Jo will show you the amazing joy of using Numicon to help children understand the power behind counting on and back as strategies of addition and subtraction by thinking part-whole and understanding numbers as sets or groups.

Come and join with Jo to learn how manipulatives can make Multiplication and Division easy. A very popular session. You won’t want to miss this!

Numicon is making such a wonderful impact on children's lives internationally. Enjoy this course exploring the pedagogy and materials as well as the teaching resources. You will shift your low achievers and extend your high achievers.

This is an online course over three Tuesday evenings – 1st, 8th and 22nd March. Your booking covers all three events. Learn all about the Big Ideas Acceleration programme designed to help students who are struggling in Years 6 – 8. If you have identified students who need help, let’s get them on this programme early so they can enjoy maths again for the rest of the year. You will need access to Cuisenaire rods and Numicon shapes. Let us know if you want to join but don’t have these.

Join us for a full day workshop exploring the CPA approach and the Numicon Programme for all levels of the primary school. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch.

Join Jo to review the Numicon 2 NPC Handbook. Jo has recently taught from this book and will have a look at the Numicon equipment and demonstrate a few of the lessons from the handbook. This is suitable for Year 3 teachers.

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Catherine will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch.

Join us for a full day exploring how to use the manipulatives and bar modelling to help students understand the increasingly abstract concepts taught in levels 3 & 4 of the NZC. We will be using Cuisenaire, Numicon, PV blocks and lots more! Particular focus on fractions, using column method for addition and subtraction, and many other areas.

Sacred Heart Petone is opening their doors for you to visit. The school has been using Numicon for several years with very exciting results. They were looking for an approach to bring the JOY back into the classroom for maths. The morning begins with an introduction of their journey. After morning tea when you meet the teachers, you will visit the classrooms. Bring your staff. Register here or with the school office. We're looking forward to meeting you.

Assessment for Learning (aka formative assessment) is acknowledged as one of the most effective ways to improve student attainment. How can teachers (Years 1-8) ensure this happens on a daily basis in their maths classes? Come and practice techniques to create powerful learners of mathematics. Learn how teacher content knowledge can enhance what and how you assess. Find out if commonly used Assessment for Learning implementations work for all mathematics lessons? Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch.

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Catherine will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA

Join Jo to review the Numicon 3 NPC Handbook. Jo has recently taught from this book and will have a look at the Numicon equipment and demonstrate a few of the lessons from the teaching manual. This is suitable for Year 4 teachers.

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Jo will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA

Catherine will present this introduction to Numicon for all teachers, RTLB’s, LSC’s, SENCO’s and Teacher Aides who want to learn what Numicon is and how to use it. Numicon is designed to help all children from level 1-4 of the curriculum succeed in maths. It is created by teachers and experts in the field based on a proven concrete, pictorial, abstract approach. This course will give particular guidance when students struggle with maths. Numicon encourages children to explore maths using structured imagery and concrete apparatus in order to understand and explain maths concepts. We will look at the printed resources, the apparatus, and the use of manipulatives in your maths programme. You will leave with some resources and many ideas for use in your classroom. Morning tea will be provided but please bring your own lunch.

Singapore, Netherlands and Shanghai are enjoying great results. We will explore why and how. We have experienced the success of this approach and would love to share it with you. This will not only be about theory and pedagogy, we will be hands on using manipulatives for years 4 - 8. You will be able to use the learning from today's session in your class right away. Our focus will be on place value and basic facts.

Join Jo to review the Numicon 4 NPC Handbook. Jo has recently taught from this book and will have a look at the Numicon equipment and demonstrate a few of the lessons from the teaching manual. This is suitable for Year 5 teachers.

St Patrick's School is opening their doors for you to visit. The school has been using Numicon for several years with very exciting results. They were looking for an approach to bring the JOY back into the classroom for maths. The morning begins with an introduction of their journey. After morning tea when you meet the teachers, you will visit the classrooms. Bring your staff. Register here or with the school office.we're looking forward to meeting you.

Numicon makes maths really obvious and accessible to all learners. This course will give you an introduction to all three intervention programmes: Breaking Barriers (BB) for students with high needs, Numicon Intervention programme (NIP) for students who are behind and Big Ideas (BI) for older students who are behind in their curriculum expectations. Following this condensed course you will know which course to run with your students and have more knowledge as to why they struggle with maths.

Are your learners getting the best out of problem-solving activities in your maths lessons? Can they solve new unfamiliar problems using concepts they know? Can they competently explain and justify their solutions? Come and learn from Catherine how tools can be the key to supporting rich conversations, unlocking mathematical ideas and creating ahaa moments. This course will use a variety of tools such as number lines, Cuisenaire rods, rulers and bar modelling. Attendees will receive a Maths pack of resources they can use back in their class. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Facilitated by: Catherine Huxford

Join Jo to review the Numicon 5 NPC Handbook. Jo has recently taught from this book and will have a look at the Numicon equipment and demonstrate a few of the lessons from the teaching manual. This is suitable for Year 6 teachers.

Come and learn how Numicon can be used at Intermediate and Secondary level to bring a solid understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percentages and decimals. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch.

This Professional learning is designed for maths leads and those with an interest in supporting mathematics teaching school-wide. Catherine will lead a practical course showing how recommendations from The Royal Society’s Report on Mathematics and Statistics teaching can be implemented across your school. What are the realistic priorities for schools that have lost a lot of in-class time? Mathematics content and pedagogical knowledge will be explored through hands-on, minds -on activities. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA (Auckland Central).

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Jo will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA

Engaging your students and teachers with maths even more

Come and learn what Numicon is all about and how you can start it in your classroom today! Catherine will be presenting a course on the use of Numicon across all year levels. If you don't know what Numicon is, here's your opportunity. We will also take a more in-depth discovery to get more from the Teaching Handbooks, as well as cover assessment and implementation. You might have attended our Zoom courses, so this is a great opportunity to build on that course. This course is suitable for teachers, teacher aides, SENCO, RTLBs and LSCs. All attendees receive a complimentary Maths Bag to use with their own students. Morning tea will be provided please bring your own lunch. Venue TBA