Meeting with Liana and Emily 13/06/2019

I've been thinking for quite some time now about the fact that in the past, we have had very clear Long Term Plans in Maths, and these have ensured that our teaching covers all strands and achievement objectives for our wee ones. Now however we are very focused on writing our problems in a way that is both relevant and purposeful for the children, however our planning is from week to week, and I miss the feeling of direction that having the LTP provides.
I have been wanting to talk with Liana, Emily and/or Kelly about how we might break down the Big Ideas, how we might sequence them, and what we might expect to cover from term to term over the children's first year in school.
I was able to catch up with Liana and Emily very briefly after school today.
My questions for them related, as above, to the Big Ideas, how we might fit them into a Maths Long Term Plan (their sequence) and the ways in which we might be breaking them down for our wee ones.
What a productive conversation... Liana knew exactly what I was asking (deciphering the garble perfectly), and immediately shared me in with the following documents which will help support us with the bigger picture that our planning needs to fit within:

• an example of a Maths Long Term Plan or overview 
• an example of Learning Outcomes developed from the Achievement Objectives in the area of Number
• and the way that the Curriculum Elaborations need to fit in with the above.

Hopefully this will provide us with guidance when we meet in the holidays. Our tasks:

• To create a new Long Term Plan for the Koru team
• For each of the areas - Number, Measurement (Length and Area, Volume, Mass and Capacity, Time and Temperature), Fractions, Statistics (Statistical Investigations and Probability), Geometry (Shape and Space, and Transformation, Position and Orientation) and Algebra - create Learning Outcomes which develop out of the Achievement Objectives
• The Curriculum Elaborations and the Key Mathematical Ideas will feed into and provide the information we need for each of these documents.