Please note: To guarantee the timely delivery of resources to your school, you should place your order at least one week before the intervention start date.

Event Details:

Day 1 – Wednesday 15th October 2025 9.00 – 16.00
Day 2 – Wednesday 19th November 2025 9.00 – 16.00

Venue: Services For Education, Unit 3 Holt Court, Holt Street, Birmingham, B7 4AX

A specially trained teaching assistant delivers 24-30 half-hour sessions to a group of up to four children. The sessions focus on number and calculation, developing children’s mathematical understanding, communication and reasoning skills.

The sessions are lively and active, engaging children in real life contexts that are both stimulating and fun.

Each topic starts with a simple assessment that helps the teaching assistant to tailor sessions to the children’s needs.

Services For Education is a provider of Every Child Counts which provides professional development, training and resources for school leaders, teachers and teaching assistants in and beyond the UK. It is run by Edge Hill University on a not-for-profit basis and was set up with support from the DfE.

It is run by Edge Hill University on a not-for-profit basis and was set up with support from the DfE.

For further information about the programme please visit the Every Child Counts website here.

During the 1stClass@Number in Mathematics training, participants will develop:

• Subject knowledge and increase effectiveness
• Overall strategy for tackling mathematical misconceptions
• Ability to support children, increasing their attainment, enjoyment and engagement in mathematics

You will receive interactive and easily-adaptable session plans, online guidance and downloadable resources, access to the ECC data system and telephone and email support.

For more information contact us here.

About the Adviser

Denise Harris - Adviser, Services For Education

Denise has enjoyed many years working as a qualified teacher in Birmingham. She has taught across the age range in schools, in an Education Action Zone, and in a Youth Offending Unit.  As a local authority primary numeracy consultant, she has supported many schools to effectively develop their maths provision, and this continues through her management of the very successful 'Every Child Counts' mathematics interventions, developed and supported by Edge Hill University, and which are proven to have a significant impact, not only on underachieving and SEND pupils, but also on teacher and teaching assistant subject and pedagogical knowledge, classroom and whole school practice.

Nowadays, Denise successfully delivers the primary statutory assessment contract for moderation and monitoring on behalf of Birmingham LA. She has been instrumental in effectively managing the changes over time to the statutory assessment processes but does not lose sight of the need for schools and teachers to make use of ongoing formative assessment strategies as part of the teaching and learning process to monitor pupil progress. In her statutory role, Denise works closely with other moderation managers both locally and nationally to ensure a consistent understanding of national guidance and related requirements. She recruits, trains, and accredits both KS1 and KS2 pool moderators and utilises her knowledge and understanding of these processes to ensure, through her training offer, that schools are equipped to fulfil their statutory duty confidently.