Our approach to the curriculum in more detail Maths

Using the sensorial equipment, children at the PelicanNursey will have gained a physical impression of size and quantity long before they begin to manipulate numbers by handling number rods, counting out beads, counting spindles into boxes and arranging coloured counters in patterns - odd and even numbers. Numbers are built up using glass or wooden beads and their sandpaper symbols traced with the fingers. Pie-shaped frames with inset pieces give concrete grounding in fractions which the child can refer back to for years to come.