What is the Liverpool Counts Quality Mark?
The quality mark aims to promote a positive attitude to maths and numeracy as an essential life skill. It has been set up by Liverpool learning partnership alongside School Improvement Liverpool.
'The aim of the Quality mark is to tackle the negative attitudes in society towards numeracy and mathematics. We want to promote a culture where people understand the impact good numeracy skills and mathematics qualifications can have on the social, health and employment aspects of their lives. We also aim to support adults in schools to encourage pupils to make connections in their lessons to real life contexts and with other areas of their school experiences.'
Liverpool Learning Partnership & School Improvement Liverpool 2016
School achieved SILVER in May 2019 in recognition of the high profile of maths across the school. Strengths included the whole school commitment to raising and maintaining the profile of maths across all key stages. The hard work and leadership of the Maths Champion (Mrs Gelling) has been pivotal in the school’s success.
"The case studies on parental engagement show that this has been a huge success. Feedback from parents has been completely positive. There was a vast amount of evidence of real-life maths across the school with children, staff and parents talking about it with enthusiasm and engagement."
Our three main aims:
Encourage everybody to have a Positive Attitude to Maths. Let’s forget about the… ‘I can’t’ or ‘I hate attitude’ and focus on…’with support I can’, ‘with practice I will!’
Point out the maths in everyday life. Look at arrays in supermarkets, weigh ingredients for meals and cakes, pay for shopping and look at receipts, work out time tables for buses and trains.
Praise your child. Effort is key. Always remind your child how well they are doing and that it is okay to make mistakes.
Please tweet photographs (@Blueberryparkuk) of real life maths you are enjoying with your child adding in #LCQM in your comments.
Thank you
Mrs K Gelling
(Maths Lead)
