Greater Depth in Primary Maths: Nurturing Thinkers, Not Just Doers

Are you looking to stretch and inspire your young mathematicians without racing ahead through the curriculum?

Join us for an engaging training session focused on developing greater depth in primary maths. This session will equip you with strategies to deepen children’s understanding, reasoning, and problem-solving skills—fostering deep mathematical thinkers.

Teachers will leave with a toolkit of effective strategies, ideas and practical approaches to use in the classroom. Whether you’re new to teaching or looking to refine your practice, this training will energise your maths teaching and help children to gain a greater understanding of mathematical concepts.

This training supports teachers in developing greater depth mathematicians at the primary level by focusing on deep conceptual understanding, reasoning, and problem-solving. The training will include discussion of strategies used to develop mathematical thinking, high-quality talk, and making connections across concepts. Teachers will strengthen subject knowledge and learn how to structure questioning to deepen understanding with the aim of nurturing confident, articulate, and reflective young mathematicians – children who can explain, justify, and explore strategies with independence and curiosity. Giving children the opportunity to ‘go deeper’ in their understanding of mathematical concepts.

This programme takes place on Tuesday 13 January and Wednesday 4 February, 4.00-5.00pm. To get the most out of this programme you should attend both sessions. It’s sutable for teachers, specific maths subject teachers, school leaders, senior leaders & teaching assistants in the primary phase.

This session will be led by two experienced and passionate teachers who have over 15 years of classroom expertise each: Claire Shorrock and Louise Seeley. Both Claire and Louise work for the BBO Maths Hub and have worked for MEI to write the Oak Academy Maths resources. Claire and Louise are both accredited to lead professional development and to lead school improvement through the NCETM.

Claire is an Assistant Maths Hub Lead for BBO Maths Hub, she plays a key role in developing and supporting high-quality maths teaching across the region. She leads on the NPQLPM (National Professional Qualification in Leading Primary Mathematics) and is also an experienced ECT facilitator, supporting early career teachers. With a deep understanding of effective pedagogy and a commitment to helping all pupils achieve mathematical depth, she brings both practical classroom insight and strategic leadership to her training.

Louise is a committed practitioner who currently serves as a class teacher and Maths Lead. As an NCETM-accredited Maths Specialist, Louise has played a key role in developing teaching for mastery within and beyond her setting. She has worked extensively across two regional Maths Hubs, contributing to teacher development through workgroups, CPD facilitation, and curriculum design support. With a firm belief that deep, conceptual understanding is at the heart of great maths teaching, Louise combines expert subject knowledge with practical classroom strategies that make maths accessible, challenging, and enjoyable for all learners.

Accessing the online event

Following registration for this event you will receive an email from Eventbrite confirming your place. If you do not receive the email within a few minutes, please check your junk or spam folders and check that the correct email address was provided at the time of booking. If you did not create an account at the time of booking or someone else booked on your behalf, you will need to create an Eventbrite account. Open your booking confirmation email, select ‘Claim Your Order’ and then choose a password. Make a note of your email address that was used to make the booking and your new password – you will need these to access the Eventbrite page containing the link to the event.

A minimum of 48 hours before the event begins you will receive another email from Eventbrite containing a direct link to the event and to the Eventbrite Online Event page. Login to Eventbrite, using the same email and password you used to create your account. You will now have access to the online event link and any pre-event materials. This link must not be shared with other people.

Please test the link the day before the event to make sure you can connect. If you need help please email info@otsa.org.uk or call 01865 647999 in good time before the event begins. We will be unable to help during the event itself. Please note, if you unsubscribe from Eventbrite before the event takes place you will not receive any further emails from Eventbrite and therefore will not receive the email with the link to the event.

We do not provide refunds if you are unable to access the event due to technical issues that are beyond our control.

Participation in online events

In all cases, at the beginning of the session to confirm your identity please ensure that your camera is on, your username matches the name you registered with and that you register in ‘chat’ with your first name, second name and organisation. This is for security and registration purposes and we may remove, without refunds, participants who have not confirmed their identity as described above.

Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

This event will not be recorded for copyright and privacy reasons.

Payment

Payment is required at the time of booking by credit card, debit card or Paypal. Unless otherwise stated, a ticket gives admission to one person at face-to-face and online events. In the event that you share an online event link with other people who then attend the event, including sharing your screen, or you arrive at a venue without a ticket and we are able to admit you, we will invoice you or your organisation for additional tickets retrospectively.

Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.

In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% plus 0.59p per ticket is not refundable.

To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue invoices for payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.

We strongly recommend that you take out ‘event ticket insurance’ which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.

Technical difficulties

Should an online session encounter any technical difficulties we will do our best to continue with the session, this may be on a different online platform. In the event that we are unable to do this we will rearrange the session, if you are unable to attend the new date a full refund will be given.

Restriction on AI and Automated Participation

Our online training sessions are designed for human participants only. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) bots, automated systems, or any non-human entities to attend, participate in, or interact with the training content is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to remove any unauthorised participants and take appropriate action if this policy is violated.