Welcome back for term 4! Here are some of the upcoming twilights with a few spaces left in April & May . See you then!

Using rekenrek today to show understanding! #CVA #fractions #BGE NAC Learning Academy Kilwinning Academy

🛠🧠 Building Thinking Classrooms 🧠🛠

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Registration is now open for e-Sgoil's 2024 Easter Study Support! Easter Study Support is for Senior Phase learners who are working towards National Qualifications. This year there are 74 different webinar Teams, covering a wide range of subjects and levels. Find out more👇

Want to encourage classes to explore and notice?

These Live Problems are ideal:

Digit Addition (ages 5-11) nrich.maths.org/14312
Domino Sets (ages 7-11) nrich.maths.org/9965
Tables Patterns Go Wild! (ages 7-11) nrich.maths.org/6924

PS Closing date Mon 29th April

📢Re-scheduled Play Pedagogy Twilights now available to sign up through northayrshire.cpdservice.net and spaces are limited.
Sign up now to secure your spot. Look forward to seeing you all on Thursday 7th for session 1!🎉
#NACPLA #PlayPedagogy

Learning to live mindfully helps us get more out of life and cope better in difficult times 🌤️

Join us for Mindful March and find ways to approach each day with awareness and compassion actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march #MindfulMarch

To celebrate World Book Day we are excited to invite you to take part in our prize draw. Tag us in your WBD celebrations to enter!

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I have been asked how #Numicon can be used to support some chn’s procedural fluency later in the seq of learning!

Note: this is 1 of many ways it can be used to support understanding of ➗

If you want to adapt rather than differentiate by outcome, give this a try!

Great to see our very own Natalie Clark at the NAC Learning Academy Numeracy Co-ordinator Workshop this week! She gave an overview of #Numicon resources including interventions and Numicon Online, a reminder of the CPA approach and how Numicon can be used to support maths vocabulary. 🔢😍

Plenty of opportunities to use concrete materials in Numeracy and Maths this week Kilwinning Academy! Using Unit cubes for introducing volume and numicon for fractions and division! Both have been a huge hit #CVA KilwAcad SSR NAC Learning Academy

Thank you to everyone who attended and presented at the Numeracy Co-ordinators Workshops on Monday! Lots of practical ideas to take back to school. 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙡𝙮𝙣 𝙇𝙚𝙚 #MIEExpert 🙎🏻‍♀️ NAC Education Leadership and Professional Learning Nanette Brotherwood Natalie Clark Scottish Maritime Museum Sheena Bryce NAC_STEM North Ayrshire Ranger Service

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I was recently asked where #Numicon changes the game for KS2 chn & division has to be up there!

🪜Accessible for ALL chn
👀Easy to follow
🗣️Promotes collaboration & talk
↗️Progresses to deeper learning (exchanges, remainders)

If division is coming up, give this a try!

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Block 3 of the new Professional learning model is underway and our collaborative working across the authority is going well, what’s your next CLPL?Sharon McDowell Andrew McClelland Pennyburn PS & EYC Kilwinning Academy Blacklands Primary🌈 Greenwood Academy

Delighted to have Lauren O'Neill with us in the SSR for 9 weeks sharing different ways to teach numeracy. Today was all about fractions Kilwinning Academy NAC Learning Academy

We need each other more than ever 💕🌎
Join us for Friendly February and take action to boost your relationships and be a good friend to others
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