When student B was assessed in Year 7, it was clear he was secure in some areas of maths but had significant gaps in other areas, particularly understanding larger numbers, fractions and decimals, and multiplication and division methods. He was managing to participate in secondary maths lessons in school, but these specific gaps were inevitably going to make it difficult for him to access certain areas of the secondary maths curriculum and make links and sense with previous learning.
Student B continued with secondary lessons but these were supplemented with one lesson each week towards the end of the Autumn term, using the SCP programme to secure these gaps and make sure he is in the best possible position to access future maths topics in class.
Following three terms of using the programme, student B is now confident in his understanding of numbers up to 8-digits and has developed a secure and accurate strategy for negative number calculations. He can now confidently use short multiplication and division strategies and is moving on to long multiplication and division methods. Student B is progressing well and picking up the gaps in his primary learning quickly, developing a more reasoned understanding. This can often happen quite quickly when more mature students get the opportunity to revisit previous learning for the second time and suddenly it can all make sense and links fall into place.
Continuing with secondary lessons has meant student B has not missed any regular lessons with his peer group and although he may have found some of these lessons challenging, he is securing his primary foundations at the same time.
