Learning & Teaching

Dear LPS Community,

Mrs Roose is currently having a great time in Mauritius...it looks amazing! She will be back next week. In the meantime, Mrs Harvey is sharing some news about Maths Daily Review.

This year at LPS, we have initiated a consistent routine across the whole school called Maths Daily Review. During a Maths Daily Review students are asked a series of questions that relate to concepts that they have ALREADY been taught. This provides students with multiple opportunities to practise, rehearse and revise previously learned mathematical concepts to strengthen and enhance their learning. 

Maths Daily Reviews are carefully designed by our teachers to incorporate the foundational language, skills and concepts that students will need in order to layer and connect embedded existing knowledge to new learning. Students are asked to answer questions in a variety of ways, including verbal (choral response), written (on mini-whiteboards) and physical (gestures) responses. Students also get opportunities to share their mathematical thinking and reasoning during Pair-Share tasks, where they talk to a partner.

Maths Daily Reviews are helping our students combat The Forgetting Curve, a natural phenomenon in which the brain naturally forgets any new information it has learnt unless it regularly uses, retrieves or applies that knowledge. The more times knowledge is used, the less likely it is to be forgotten. A simple example of this is that you might remember your childhood home phone number because of the amount of times you had to recall it back then, but you will probably struggle to remember what you had for dinner last Thursday, because there has been no need or opportunity for you to retrieve or think about that piece of information. 

Through the Maths Daily Reviews, four times a week for 10-15 minutes, our students work hard to recall and retrieve important mathematical skills and knowledge, cementing it in their long-term memory, and stopping them from forgetting or losing this vital learning. 

Review is also a daily part of our teaching and learning programs in Literacy, with students regularly engaging in review of previously learned content related to Word Work, vocabulary, grammar and sentence-level writing. 

Zahra Harvey |  Learning Specialist