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Designed for those who attended Catch Up® training over six months ago and who now have experience of delivering the intervention, the Review and Refresh online session offers you a great opportunity to share how your practice is going, and to get further guidance and advice from a Catch Up® Accredited Trainer (and other trainees!).
Whilst with us, our lovely Lynne Startin wrote many helpful numeracy blogs. This is the first of a short series looking at the ‘process’ – we hope you find them a useful reminder.
Welcome back to Lynne’s logic!
I thought in these next blogs it would be good to reflect on the whole Catch Up® Numeracy process, and look closely at the 4 stages that form it. It can be all too easy as an established deliverer to focus on the everyday practicalities and any problems that face you session by session, but, hopefully, some time spent reading these blogs might remind you of – and reinforce – the philosophical foundations which underpin the intervention.
Q: The children I am working with are all reading books at either Catch Up® Literacy level 7 or level 8. However, they are unable to get through the books in just two sessions and need three. The children are all EAL learners, and none of them make more than three or four miscues, on average, per session – they simply read a little slowly! Am I able to stretch the books out over three sessions until their reading rate becomes more secure, or should I put them back down a level?
Dear All,
As we reach the end of 2024 and take time to reflect upon the year, we recognise that it has been a very busy one for many of us, and a year of changes.
We have bid some of the team a very happy retirement during the year, but have also welcomed many new trainees to deliver the Catch Up® interventions and been pleased to have past trainees return to delivery as well. As schools continue to work tirelessly on closing the attainment gap, in a challenging time, we know that the Catch Up® interventions can support progress, and with your help the word is spreading.
Here is another blog from our much missed Lynne Startin. This blog was last issued in 2017, so we felt a re-issue was much over-due. We hope you find it helpful.
Well, multiplication is the name of the game today, (cue a song for any oldies reading this!).
I remember attending a workshop led by a well-respected mathematician, who began by telling us multiplication does not exist in nature. Shock, horror! But I later understood what he meant. Do you agree?
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