Myself and a fellow TA are just about to start this, has anyone else used it ? If so any good / bad points to consider ?

Thanks

Sorry not heard of this one. what year group is it aimed at?

I haven't heard about it either. Can you tell us more Helen

Yipee, I have a computer that talks to the world again !

Maths Recovery “emphasizes ongoing assessment, careful observation, hypothesizing about the student's current knowledge and strategies, and building on them to increase the student's knowledge, ability and self-confidence in math”
and
"The assessment interview for the Maths Recovery Programme places a child in one of five sequential stages of early number development, based on the various numerical strategies which successful children adopt at different developmental stages. The Programme was devised and developed by Bob Wright - now a professor at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia - and it has been widely tested in the New South Wales school system.
The strength of the Programme is its ability to comprehensively assess children's early numerical knowledge and strategies. The assessment covers children's counting strategies; their knowledge of number words and sequences; their ability to reason in terms of tens and ones; and their developing strategies for multiplication and division."

In other words, the programme teaches TAs how to assess children's maths abilities. You then decide what level they are and follow teaching strategies for that level.
The major plus for the child I work with is that its fun ! There is no written work, its all games and talking about how you work things out.

The training I received was well delivered and my fellow TA and I came back very enthusiastic and ready to start, unfortunately due to circumstances the 20min daily teaching slot has not always materialized. Both the children we teach though keep asking when they can do maths games again so I think they are enjoying it.
It is a ten week programme after which you re-assess the child to see if / how much they have improved.

what age range is it Helen?

Got to be good if the children want to do it

Anywhere from Yr 1 - Yr 6.

Basically you make the games to suit the age and ability of the child in question.

On the training course they did say it is one of the two possible strategies that will be rolled out to all schools very soon.

I believe the trainers training was accredited by Liverpool Uni.

Make or, erm , borrow on a , er , erm , semi permanent basis from Reception.

(Reception Teacher = SENCo = Person who sent me on the course in the first place, so I think that's only fair )

I bet you ended up making some in your own time.

Absolutely !

The girl I support is mad on dogs, so I made a number bond to ten game where you had to match the dog to the bone and make ten, she loves it.

We've made sequencing caterpillars, 'spotty feet' for spatial recognisation, printed number cards from Sparklebox and the like.