Children take part in 4 Numeracy sessions and 1 Maths session per week. Each lesson is divided into 3 main parts:

Heinemann Active (Numeracy & Maths)

Heinemann Active Maths is a primary maths programme using hands-on activities, games, and digital tools to build understanding. In classrooms, teachers deliver structured lessons with manipulatives, group work, and problem-solving tasks. It supports differentiation, engagement, and progression, helping pupils develop confidence and numeracy skills through active, practical learning experiences daily.

Glasgow Counts Strategies

Children receive daily input on Glasgow Counts strategies, in order for children to be able to solve problems in multiple way. During Glasgow Counts strategy lessons, children use a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach. 

• Concrete - his is the physical stage of learning that all children must experience to gain a conceptual understanding of new areas of learning. This can look different across year groups. For example, when learning to add children may use cubes or physical objects to create groups or, when learning how to find a fraction of an amount they may use counters to help their initial understanding.

• Pictorial - The pictorial stage - a student has sufficiently understood the hands-on experiences performed and can now relate them to representations, such as a diagram or picture of the problem. In the case of a division exercise this could be the action of circling objects.

• Abstract - This is the symbolic stage. In this stage, children are  now capable of representing problems by using mathematical notation, for example: 12 ÷ 2 = 6.

Over the course of their time at school, children will learn a range of Glasgow Counts strategies that will help them in problem-solving activities. Glasgow Counts strategies equips children with a range of strategies, in order to help them select one that best fits the problem.

Counting stick (arithmetic practice)

A counting stick is used at the beginning of each lesson. A counting stick is a metre long stick that is divided into ten equal sections. It can be used as a tool for developing mental and oral numeracy in the classroom. Children used the counting stick to consolidate their knowledge of multiplication tables, ordering numbers, skip counting and as they progress, learning the order of decimals, fractions and percentages. An example is shown in the image below: