Springboard 5: Catch-up programme for children in Year 5

Publication date:

Sep 2000

DCSF ref:

0151-2000

Audience:

Coordinator, Inclusion staff, Lead intervention teacher, SEN staff, Subject leader, Teacher

Function:

Guidance, Lesson plans, Lesson resources, Programmes of study

Format:

Pack, Resource sheet, Teaching notes

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Springboard 5 is designed for children in groups of 8–12 who need help to reach level 4 at the end of Key Stage 2 mathematics. It consists of 10 weekly units of work, preferably for use in the autumn and spring terms. This will ensure that they are adequately prepared for the work they will face in Year 6.

The main aims are to:

• support the identified children and to tackle their weaknesses in mathematics so that they are in a better position to access the Year 5 and 6 teaching programmes
• set the expectation that these children will catch up with their peers and achieve level 4 at the end of Key Stage 2
• help teachers to prepare a teaching programme that enables the children to benefit fully from the main teaching programme for Year 5 as soon as possible.

There is a 50-minute lead lesson and a 45-minute follow-up session. This second lesson is to consolidate the work and, sometimes, take it a small step further.

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.

Three photocopiable activity sheets are provided for each weekly unit of work. There is also a short weekly homework task to be completed between the lead lesson and the follow-up session.

Also included are video sequences showing how the material to be taught could be broken down into small steps. Appropriate lines of questioning are demonstrated. The content is similar to that of the lead lessons but has been amended, where necessary, to meet the specific needs of the children being filmed.

There is also advice aimed at explicitly at the teaching assistants and a full list of all the unit objectives. The final, and largest, section consists of varied teaching materials for each unit.

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