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Below you will find information on our DEIS plan for Numeracy. The co-ordinator for this pillar is Avril Devereux.
Rationale for our Numeracy Targets:
With a passionate team of teachers and SNAs working alongside students on whole school initiatives including maths weeks, problem solving competitions and great cross curricular collaboration maths is a very visible and vibrant subject in our school. This underpins strong numeracy confidence across all of our subjects. Through exam results analysis, subject department meetings and focus groups we concluded that there are some areas for improvement. There are specific cohorts within our school that need targeted support to increase their PTM standard score, there are also whole school initiatives that could be further enhanced to really embed numeracy as a core part of the school day and so we focussed our targets on these areas.
Target
Target
We will target 24/25 1st year students identified as having low numeracy levels (PTM standard score <85) to increase the proportion achieving age-appropriate scores by 25% in 2026, 40% in 2027, and 50% in 2028. This will be achieved through the use of concrete numeracy strategies, with a particular focus on developing social numeracy skills such as time, money, and real-life problem-solving contexts.
Increase the percentage of students who report feeling confident in tackling unfamiliar problem-solving tasks from 32.5% (baseline survey 2025) to 50% by 2025/26, 55% in 26/27 and 60% in 27/28.
Improve 24/25 first year students’ ability to apply numeracy problem-solving skills (estimating, interpreting data, logical reasoning, pattern recognition) across Maths, Science, Geography and Home economics from a baseline of 30% to 40% in 25/26, 50% in 26/27 and 60% in 27/28 as measured through follow-up monthly problem-solving tasks.
Timeline
Timeline
May 2025/26
1st-year students achieving age-appropriate numeracy: +40%
Confidence in problem-solving tasks: 50%
Application of problem-solving skills: 40%
May 2026/27
1st-year students achieving age-appropriate numeracy: +50%
Confidence in problem-solving tasks: 55%
Application of problem-solving skills: 50%
May 2027/28
1st-year students achieving age-appropriate numeracy: +60%
Confidence in problem-solving tasks: 60%
Application of problem-solving skills: 60%
Monitoring and Review
Monitoring and Review
Inset targets here
Evaluation
Evaluation
Inset targets here
Actions
Actions
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