Liz Gibbs

National and International Maths Consultant

Workshop Information:

Participation in the activities is required!

When you think about using a parachute in education, you may be thinking about using it in PE lessons. 

Join Liz and her well-travelled parachute at this workshop to learn some new engaging maths activities. 

This workshop seeks to show you how the humble parachute can be used for mathematics, especially in the Early Years. 

Most activities will be number based and will use resources you may already have in school.

Session Outcomes:

Give yourself a reason to dust off the parachute at school and use it in a maths lesson.

All the ideas and activities can be taken away and used back at school the next day.

Biography:

Liz is an experienced teacher and has taught all year groups from nursery to Year 8.  In addition to her teaching experience, she has ten years of local authority school improvement work as a maths adviser and has worked as a regional director for the National Whiteboard Network at the DfE.

Since leaving local authority work in 2011, Liz has developed her school improvement work nationally and internationally, has become a published author/editor and has written page content and educational scripts for BBC bitesize.   She has also written educational maths scripts for two independent film companies based in the UK.

Through her consultancy work, she supports senior leaders and teachers at individual schools and runs courses for maths teachers.  Liz is at her happiest teaching and running maths workshops for children across the UK and internationally.

Keeping up to date is important to her and alongside membership of the ATM/MA primary working group, Liz is also an accredited PD Lead for the NCETM with her local Maths Hub (Angles).  Involvement with the NCETM hub includes regular training and delivering local professional development for teachers and early career teachers.  Over the past four years, Liz has been involved with running Research and Innovation Working Groups across the primary and early secondary phase.