School Workshops
Maths Workshops for Special Schools
Alongside our work in mainstream education, we have been working with Special Schools since 2008, tailoring workshops to meet the huge range of needs catered for by the sector.
All of the workshops below have been delivered with great success in Special Schools.
Maths Workshops for Special Educational Needs Schools
Outdoor Maths
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds.
Family Maths
Uncover the meaning and importance of the three keystones of the Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Sensory Maths
Students harness a system of binary questions and handleable resources to explore in concrete ways quantity, dimensions, capacity and texture.
CSI: Maths
A series of challenging mysteries to engage your students and get them thinking logically.
Maths Around the World – Teaching Resource
Phileas Fogg has pledged to travel around the world in just eighty days – but he needs your pupils’ help with the calculations!
The Pirate’s Challenge!
One of our most popular maths workshops – allowing up to 60 pupils at a time to have some piratical fun with numbers and shapes!
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Acclaimed Egyptologist “Dr Colorado Smith” needs your pupils help to solve a 3,000 year old puzzle!
Times Tables Trattoria
Times’ Tables Trattoria gives pupils opportunities to use their times tables in context.
The Extraordinary World of Pirates – Pirate Day Teaching Resources
Host your own whole school, cross curriculuar Pirate Day with our wide range of activities exploring the topic of pirates.
Wild About Maths – Maths Week Scotland 2025
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
Working with children and young people with a huge range of needs
We recognise that your schools are incredibly diverse, working with children and young people with a huge range of needs – and that each school is special in its own right, delivering high quality learning experiences designed to meet the individual needs of each and every pupil.
With the experience that we’ve gathered over the last ten years, we’re able to tailor a range of tried and tested creative maths programmes to complement and supplement the work you do.
Particularly in secondary settings, we make explicit links between what we do and the life skills the students will be wanting to acquire.
Our approach is to work with you to:
- Identify the most appropriate workshop (or workshops) for the pupils we’ll be working with.
- Tailor the content and delivery to meet the needs of those pupils (including those with SEMH needs).
- Ensure that the workshop (or workshops) are appropriately challenging.
