December Catch Up!

Here at SPS, we can't believe December has arrived. We're only three days in to December and we're already counting down the days until the big day! Are you counting too?

Our post today, titled, 'December Catch Up' is just to sum up what we've been doing in the past couple of weeks, and what is to come for the What you say COUNTS! project. 

Croeserw CEC's Christmas Craft Fayre 

Yesterday, Emily and Hayley attended Croeserw CEC's Christmas Craft Fayre to promote the WYSC scheme, and raise awareness of what we do as an organisation. The day was very successful, and Hayley and Emily thoroughly enjoyed promoting the scheme in the area. 

Developing our services 

We mentioned in an earlier post that we are in the process of working with students of the University of South Wales to develop our services.

 The students have worked closely with us to not only analyse our services to improve them, but they are also in the process of creating and developing new services for us too e.g., creating a maths app, moodle, flash service. 

We are very excited to incorporate the new advancements into our workshops! 

Evaluation results

We posted a few weeks ago about our Finance for Life workshop that we ran in Ysgol Maessyderwen, and today we'd like to share some of the results we received from the pupils that took part. 

As you can see from the table below, 37 pupils claimed that our workshop changed the way they considered maths, with 38 pupils stating that the Finance for Life workshop helped develop their understanding of maths. 

This is exactly what we aimed to achieve. Our workshops strive to change attitudes towards maths, and our ultimate aim is to get 100% positive feedback from students, and we are working hard to attain this result! 

We have more maths workshops booked for 2015 with various schools around Wales, and we can't wait to deliver our services, and change attitudes! 

Have you seen the Education Begins at Home tv advert? 

As you know from our aim, (which is to change attitudes towards maths) we believe that education does begin at home. If a parent states "I can't do maths" in front of their child, their child will begin to adopt the same belief, consequently not being able to achieve the results they deserve in life. 

Below is the Education Begins at Home advert. By clicking the image you can watch the advert now. 

Let us know in the comment box below what you think of the advert! 

If you want to change your child's attitudes towards maths, do it today and request a FREE LEARNING ACTIVITY PACK that is filled with both maths and Christmas work sheets! Simply fill in the contact form on the left hand side of the blog, (remember to state your child's age). 

'5 ways in which' series 

Have you read our previous blog posts that feature 5 ways in which maths is used in various jobs? Below are the links to a few of our '5 ways in which' blog posts so you can strive to attain your dream job! 

Beauty industry- http://steampoweredstories-janro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/5-ways-in-which-maths-is-used-in-beauty.html 

Fashion- http://steampoweredstories-janro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/5-ways-that-maths-is-used-in-fashion.html 

Hairdressing- http://steampoweredstories-janro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/hairdressers-need-maths-too.html 

Sports- http://steampoweredstories-janro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/did-you-know-that-maths-is-used-in-sport.html

Thanks for reading!