New government targets for primary schools
The government has set new e-learning targets that all primary schools must meet before 2012. These targets include: providing personalised learning for every student; ensuring parental engagement; building strong links between home and school; allowing universal access to learning.
Maths-Whizz® can help you meet all these targets and more. When we launched Maths-Whizz® Tutoring for Schools beta in June, our trial teachers needed answers to key questions before they began, here are our answers and testimonials from teachers after they had got started with Maths-Whizz® Tutoring for Schools.
What teachers ask…
- Is this easy to set up?
- How can I motivate my students?
- How do I get reports?
- How can I meet the government's universal access requirements?
- What if students do not have home access to computers?
Find out the answers
What Maths-Whizz® offers
What teachers ask…
| Teacher: | “Is this easy to set up?” |
| Every teacher has a dedicated Maths-Whizz® Tutoring for Schools account in which he or she can manage student data. With the Tutoring for Schools control panel teachers can add or edit whole year groups and classes, or individual students, to the Tutoring for Schools control panel in seconds, and upload bulk data with ease. |
“All excellent. No problems at all. Clear icons, clear instructions, children took to it immediately. One of the best programmes for maths I have seen in recent years.”
Mrs Claire Robinson, Saint Thomas More R.C. Primary School
| Teacher: | “How do I get reports?” |
| Teachers have dedicated logins to track school, year, class and individual performance of Maths-Whizz® students at a glance. Every student has a graphical progress report (built around the educational targets in the Primary National Strategy for Maths) and text reports to show usage. Teachers can view these data for whole classes or year groups, and use reports to plan teaching schedules and prepare for parents’ evenings. |
| Teacher: | “How can I motivate my students?” |
| Maths-Whizz® engages students on a number of levels. customisable learning environments (‘Bedrooms’), reward credits, games, toys, plants and many other features motivate, reward self-discipline and boost confidence. |
“[Maths-Whizz Tutoring gives] confidence growth without the children actually knowing; they were learning as they participated. I personally think it's fab!! Anything that gets my own son who, incidentally, is one of our class pupils, to play Maths rather than Star Wars must be good.”
Philippa Ramage, Gwinear Community Primary School
| Teacher: | “How can I meet the government’s universal access requirements?” |
| Students can log in anywhere and at any time – usage is not confined to term time. Students start with a simple interface that provides clear visual and written feedback and requires no training to use. Parents can subscribe to Maths-Whizz® Tutoring for Schools Xtra for a small monthly fee, and give their students the benefit of the full student online ‘bedroom’ experience, normally provided in Maths-Whizz® Tutoring Plus . |
“Tutoring for schools makes homework fun! Our parents are having to limit the time children are logged on to it! We have had 100% positive feedback, parents are happy, children are enjoying learning and we are providing personalised learning and strengthening home/school links. Margaret Taylor, Head of High Hesket CE Primary School
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What Maths-Whizz offers
Teachers, students and parents have access to dedicated Maths-Whizz® Tutoring Plus account pages, where they can track student progress with clear charts and detailed usage <reports>. Teachers can manage Students from a control panel, in which they can track school, year, class and individual performance at a glance, and use report data to plan teaching schedules and prepare for parents’ evenings. The student environment, or ‘bedroom’, can be personalised with toys, characters and games bought from the Whizz shop with credits earned in lessons. Students can log in anywhere and at any time. The use of voice-over enhancement in nearly all Key Stage 1 lessons, and many of the Key Stage 2 lessons, is very useful for children with disabilities e.g. dyslexics. |
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