Building Understanding

Number

Counting individual objects (one-to-one correspondence)

Counting to 5

Comparing groups of objects

Reinforcement of counting and comparing the number of objects to 5

Shape & Sorting

Recognising and matching 2D shapes to a template

Making a model with 3D shapes

Repeating a pattern

Repeating a sequence

Measurement

Comparing big and small objects

Understanding bigger and smaller with actions

Comparing and matching objects based on their size

Comparing and matching items based on the size and properties

Time

Understanding day and night through a sensory story

Identifying events from daytime and night-time

Linking meals to times of the day

Sequencing meals throughout the day

Position & Direction

Exploring position

Exploring position: Applying skills

Exploring position and direction of different objects

Exploring position and direction of different objects: Constructing a sculpture

Money

Matching coins to templates

Exchanging a coin for an item

Exchanging coins for an item

Exchanging coins in a real life setting

BU Numeracy

﻿Hello, my name is James and I'm the numeracy subject leader for the Oak National Academy. I'm really excited today to be introducing you to more of the numeracy content that we've been planning and working on over the summer to support you, in supporting your learners back at school. I'd like to introduce you to our team, as you can see, there's only a small number of us that have been working hard on the content support you. All of our teachers are current, serving senior teachers working in special schools now. Having a small team has enabled us to really get to grips with the content of what we're teaching, the level of development that we're focusing on, but also have a really good understanding of the progression through the units that we're teaching. When we began developing our numeracy curriculum, we utilised the mathematics national curriculum as a basis, breaking the three areas of number, geometry and measurement into six units. These are number, shape and sorting, measurement, time, position, and direction and Money. Each unit is a stand alone unit but has common skills and knowledge. For example, in applying learning children learn to count to nine in the number unit and apply this further in the money unit when counting coins. Perhaps, all of the units, there is an emphasis on functionality and application to prepare our young people for adulthood. For numeracy, we focused on meeting the needs of two key developmental stages. These are; building understanding and applying learning. Each unit has four lessons. This is a combination of video lessons and slide decks with comprehensive resources. Lessons have been planned with parents and carers, delivering them in mind. The slides, videos, and resources have been devised to support parents and carers through a learning progression while supporting their child. Lessons have been planned with the understanding that homes have limited resources. We do not expect parents and carers to go out and purchase specialist Maths equipment or standard classroom equipment, such as whiteboards. All of our lessons are downloadable and some contain additional downloadable content. In order to make lessons more communicative, video lessons are accompanied by Mark tonne signing and a variety of symbols are embedded throughout each lesson. Symbols are also available in downloadable content. Thank you very much for engaging with our material. We've been incredibly proud and honoured to have been involved in developing the content for this next phase of the Oak National Academy. We hope that the materials that we've worked hard on will support schools, parents, and carers to provide learning opportunities for our exceptional children around the country. Share their work with Oak National Academy. We'd really appreciate it. If you could encourage your parents and carers to share their children's work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. We're really excited to see all the work that children have been doing and how they have been using our materials to further their learning. Thanks everybody. Goodbye.

Numeracy

Numeracy – Building Understanding

All units

1. Number

2. Shape & Sorting

3. Measurement

4. Time

5. Position & Direction

6. Money