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Every Child Counts

For children that need help with literacy and mathematics

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Every Child Counts helps schools to raise achievement through:

  • A range of interventions to support children who struggle with literacy or mathematics
  • Developing teaching standards to sustain high achievement for all children

Every Child Counts provides professional development, training and resources for school leaders, teachers and teaching assistants in and beyond the UK. It is run by Edge Hill University on a not-for-profit basis and was set up with support from the Department for Education (DfE).

Edge Hill University’s Every Child Counts interventions have been good investments and have helped our pupil premium pupils to make enhanced progress. Parkfield Community School, Birmingham- Winner of the National Primary School Pupil Premium Award 2015.

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Intervention in the mastery context

Many schools are beginning to adopt a mastery approach to teaching mathematics and for many of them this will require that they reappraise their approach to the ways in which they support their struggling learners. Intervention in the mastery context is a comprehensive professional development course for a teacher and a teaching assistant together.

For further information visit the Every Child Counts website.