School Workshops
Primary Maths Workshops Manchester
Primary School Workshops in Manchester for KS1 and KS2 pupils.
Each year we deliver maths workshops in hundreds of schools across Manchester and Greater Manchester.
Our Creative Maths workshops use drama and storytelling to explore the primary maths curriculum. Lots of our programmes can be delivered to the whole of a two-form entry primary schools over just one day. They also all start with a whole-school assembly, providing excellent value for money!
Our downloadable Maths teaching resource packages have recently been shortlisted for both a Teach Primary and Bett Award in the STEM category!
MANCHESTER Maths Workshops
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!
CSI: Maths
A series of challenging mysteries to engage your students and get them thinking logically.
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 Race into Space (Secondary Schools)
The search is on for the UK’s next astronaut – and Major Tom wants your pupils’ help in selecting the best person for the job!
Wild About Maths
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
The Benefactor
Money-based maths fun for up to 420 pupils in a single day!
The Race into Space
The search is on for the UK’s next astronaut – and Major Tom wants your pupils’ help in selecting the best person for the job!
Times Tables Trattoria
Times’ Tables Trattoria gives pupils opportunities to use their times tables in context.
Wild About Maths Teaching Resource
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Acclaimed Egyptologist “Dr Colorado Smith” needs your pupils help to solve a 3,000 year old puzzle!
Number Patterns: The Bunker
A fast-paced workshop contextualising sequencing and making connections between maths and other subjects!
Murderous Maths
School Workshops Interactive problem solving for up to 180 pupils (with follow-up workshops for up to four classes,…
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.
Maths: CSI: Christmas Bake Off!
A festive Bake Off turns into a maths mystery, as pupils use fractions, percentages and measurements to catch the culprit.
The Captain’s Conundrum
A pirate-themed whole school maths challenge.
Sensory Maths
Students harness a system of binary questions and handleable resources to explore in concrete ways quantity, dimensions, capacity and texture.
Historical Maths
School Workshop Historical Maths These uniquely cross-curricular programmes see children using a range of age-differentiated mathematical skills to…
Family Maths
Uncover the meaning and importance of the three keystones of the Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Captain Morgan and the Maths Monster
Using understanding and knowledge of shape to beat a creature from the deep!
Creative Approaches to Maths CPD
Explore a range of proven, highly engaging, creative methodologies for teaching and learning maths!
Maths: The Santa Challenge
With the clock ticking away to Christmas Eve, Santa’s lost the combination to the key that unlocks his sleigh!
Maths: CSI: Christmas Storyland
In Christmas Storyland, Rudolph’s nose can’t shine. Pupils must use data handling, sequencing and numeracy skills to track down the thief!
Outdoor Maths
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds.
Maths: Christmas Crackers – Teaching Resource Pack
Elton Elf is stranded in New York – and won’t be able to make it back to the North Pole in time without your pupils’ support.
Manchester School FEEDBACK
“Just to say the kids had a fabulous time today – thanks so much! The teachers said they learnt a lot too. Thanks again!”
“5A have had a great morning working with Benny Factor on various money activities. We helped work out what was needed for a new restaurant in the village then were set lots of money challenges too!”
“We just wanted to thank As Creatives and in particular, Chris for the fantastic workshop that we had this week. The children absolutely loved it and Chris expertly managed to keep them all engaged for over an hour which is a challenge in itself! we will look forward to booking more workshops with you in the future and will highly recommend your workshop to colleagues. Thankyou for making it such an easy process to enquire and book a workshop – we really appreciate this!”
“Thank you again for today! I had so many positive comments from the teachers and all the children were really engaged, had lots of fun and you made sure the day ran very smoothly! Would love to have you again at some point!
Maths Manchester
Our creative maths programmes prove extremely popular with Manchester primary schools – who place a particular value on our ability to engage children by putting maths in context. Years 3 and 4 at St Wilfrid’s, for example, have been enjoying our historical maths workshops (CSI: Ancient Greeks and CSI: Vikings) for a number of years now – while pupils at Bridgewater and Higher Lane love our whole-school character-led programmes!
Maths Week England
Maths Week is a week-long celebration of all things maths! Maths Week sets out to raise the profile of and change the conversation around maths.
Celebrate Maths Week England by taking part in one of our whole-school workshops!