Bar model & CPA training · 214 lessons · every teacher
Bar model training that
makes your teachers
brilliant at your scheme.
Bar model training for primary schools, EYFS to Year 6: a whole-school membership at £399 a year, unlimited staff. We don't replace your scheme. Your teachers watch the lesson they need, the week they need it — no INSET day, no supply cover, nothing stops.
The ECT
Watches the lesson
the night before
The Year 2 teacher
Finds the one bar model
her class keeps missing
The EYFS lead
Ten-frame games,
no printing
The maths lead
Runs staff meeting
straight off the video
The supply teacher
Same method,
first morning
The head
One invoice,
no cover budget
Schools and organisations we’ve supported
The difference
Three ways in. All of them reach every teacher.
Training only changes practice if it reaches every teacher and lasts beyond one day. The question isn't whether training works — it's how many of your staff it ever reaches, and how long it lasts once the trainer has driven home.
One INSET day
Booked, delivered, done
Trains the people in the hall that morning. Everyone else waits for next year.
£399 a year
Unlimited staff, EYFS to Year 6
Trains the teacher who joins in June, on the Sunday before they need it. Nobody covers a class.
A bar model INSET day for your whole school
A full day in your building with our founder, Mohi Uddin Ahmed, for every member of staff — and everything below comes with it, including the whole-school membership free for the year.
£1,299
All of this, for one price
One day · whole school · one invoice. The £399 membership is inside that number, not on top of it.
Whichever you pick, nobody re-books
All three cover every teacher for the full year, including the ones who start in September.
One invoice
Not per teacher, not per day, not per key stage. One line on the budget.
The day pays for the year
Book the training day and the £399 membership is simply included — there is nothing else to buy.
Scheme-agnostic: your scheme stays
We teach into whatever scheme you already own. Nothing gets replaced.
What's inside
What exactly are you
paying £399 for?
£399 a year gives every teacher in your school 214 bar model videos, lessons and webinars, plus 29 downloads. Everything below is already made, already filmed, already used in real classrooms. The bigger the tile, the more it matters — read this section the way you'd read a bar model.
63
Animated videos
The bar built in front of the class, one concept at a time. A printed page shows the finished model; these animate the thinking.
140
Course lessons
The full Bar Model Course and the EYFS Ten Frames Course, chapter by chapter, EYFS to Year 6.
214
Videos in total
Every one of them made for teachers, not pupils — and all of it in the one price.
11
Webinars
Longer sessions for maths leads and INSET.
29
Downloads
Worksheets, lesson plans and answers — tagged by topic and year group.
New staff included, automatically
Your September starters get the same training as everyone else, on their first week — without booking anything, and without paying again.
What's inside
Not a library to browse.
A week to get through.
Teachers use bar model CPD in short bursts, not all at once: one thing, on one evening, because of one child. This is what that actually looks like.
Sunday
Planning fractions for the first time in three years. Where does the bar even start?
Course lesson
Chapter 6, start to finish — 12 minutes
Tuesday
Half the class can draw it. The other half are counting on their fingers.
Animated video
Show the bar being built — 90 seconds, on the whiteboard
Wednesday
A parent asks why you're drawing rectangles instead of doing sums.
Download
The one-page explainer, sent home that night
Thursday
New teacher starts Monday. Nobody has time to induct them.
Already included
Same login, same library, no re-booking
Friday
Twenty minutes of staff meeting to fill, and no time to prepare anything.
Webinar
Press play. That's the CPD done.
140
course lessons, chapter by chapter
63
animated videos for the whiteboard
11
webinars, ready for a staff meeting
29
downloads — worksheets, plans, answers
See it work
It isn't a video. It's Monday morning, ready to go.
Each bar model lesson is a video plus the worksheet, homework and answers that go with it. Everything a teacher needs for that lesson is in the same place — nothing to hunt for, nothing to build from scratch.
In the same place
The worksheet
The same problem, ready to print, with room to draw the bar.
The homework
Same picture, different numbers — so it's practice, not a new method.
The answers
Worked through as a bar, not just a number — so you can mark the thinking.
One lesson — four parts of the same whole
Video, worksheet, homework, answers. Multiply that by 214 lessons and that is the membership.
Proof · headteachers, local authorities and class teachers
What teachers wrote after the training day.
These are teachers' own words, from feedback forms completed at the end of our training days and from messages sent afterwards. Quoted from our own feedback records.
The Bar Model Company wowed our staff. Tricky maths problems seemed to become simple, as if they were 2+2. Mohi is an excellent communicator and has produced some of the best maths CPD in my career as a teacher.
Mark EllisMaths & Computing LeadIt was very engaging & challenging. It really made you think about our teaching approach to mathematical concepts. All staff were engaged — teaching & support staff. You knew straight away that the training would have a big impact on pupil progress.
Kate CrawfordHeadteacher, Milford on Sea PrimaryA lot was covered, giving us a very good grounding in the underlying principles of bar modelling. Inspirational in terms of practical ideas, modelled questioning & use of resources.
Alison TimmingsHeadteacher, William Gilpin Primary SchoolIt was great to see how engaged the staff were — talk was focussed on maths & there were many light bulb moments and peer-on-peer explanations too. I also quite liked that ‘I got it’ in front of my colleagues — always great to lead by example.
Sandra VoiseyHeadteacher, Laurel Lane PrimarySo useful to understand how bar modelling can help children — and then practically how to introduce it, build it, the language which accompanies it, the different bar models, and where you can take it. So much to be thinking about, thank you.
Jane Scott-GallDeputy Headteacher, Marner Primary SchoolThe content was spot on — in terms of the pitch for the audience, and in terms of objectives for the day.
Jennifer BurnHampshire CouncilI felt the trainer and training was outstanding. A good balance of practical exercises and theory.
- “Everything we were shown was great. I will be using his strategies in class. Language and questioning — excellent.”Annie Panesar, Highfields Primary
- “Refreshments. But the course was BRILLIANT!”Asked what could be improved
- “I feel more confident to present CPD myself, because the examples were clear.”Maths lead
- “A long day — but it hasn’t felt like it. The trainer is lively, informative and fun.”Rebecca Andrews, Sparkenhoe Primary
- “A lovely session with great resources and visuals — EYFS appropriate, good pace, and time to talk with colleagues.”Zainab Master, Sandfield Close
- “The questions utilising the ‘Bar Model’ method were a real eye opener. The session was well delivered.”College INSET
- “Great delivery — good timing, not overloaded with information. A great maths lesson!”Year 4 teacher
- “A really useful and inspiring afternoon, thank you.”Susie Tonks, Braunstone Frith Primary
- “I really enjoyed the guidance on drilling down to check children’s understanding — and bar models!”Niki Hill, Parks Primary
Why we train the whole school, not one phase
It's the same picture.
Eight years apart.
A Reception child comparing toy cars and a Year 8 pupil solving for x draw exactly the same thing. Switch between them — the bars never move.
Reception · Year 1
Alex has 4 cars. Sam has 1 car. How many more cars does Alex have?
Count the cars that stick out. That's the difference — no subtraction needed yet.
Year 7 · Year 8
Alex has 4 times as many cars as Sam. Together they have 45. How many does Alex have?
5x = 45 → x = 9 → Alex = 36. Identical bars. The child who could see “3 more” at five can see “3x” at twelve.
Now try it yourself
Manipulatives you can pick up with your hands.
The CPA approach (concrete, pictorial, abstract) in three steps: cubes first, then a drawn bar, then the numbers. Get that order right and it sticks. We train every teacher in your school to run it — and give your pupils the videos to match.
Drag them to
Jack & Jill
Give Jack 3 more cubes than Jill.
- 1Drag cubes from the tray
- 2Make Jack’s bar 3 longer
- 3Press Mark my work
Free resources
Free · no sign-up to watchBlooming
Bar Models.
A free ten-episode bar model training series, already made — the fastest way to find out whether this is for your school.
And in the free pack
The Bar Model Guide
Ten-frame printables — EYFS & KS1
Progression documents, EYFS to Year 6
18 free resources in total
- 01 Using Bar Models in Year 6 SATs 10:01 ▶
- 02 Show your class the meaning of DIFFERENCE 4:47 ▶
- 03 Using the Bar Model approach to understand Subtraction & Difference 13:25 ▶
- 04 Can we teach Bar Modelling in EYFS? 8:39 ▶
- 05 Using Bar Models as a Teaching Tool 6:45 ▶
- 06 To Algebra or Not to Algebra, THAT is the question! 5:08 ▶
- 07 Can we be MEAN with Bar Modelling? 5:31 ▶
- 08 Bar Modelling in Multiplication 7:57 ▶
- 09 Showing Equivalent Fractions with a Bar Model 7:34 ▶
- 10 How do you use bar modelling to teach ratio? 10:09 ▶
Pricing
399
a yearper school
Unlimited staff. Every year group.
WasNot per teacher, not per key stage, not per day. One line on the budget that covers everyone on your staff list — including whoever starts in September.
What the £399 covers
214 videos
140 course lessons, 63 animated videos, 11 webinars.
29 downloads
Worksheets, homework and answers, tagged by topic and year group.
Every teacher you employ
No seat count, no upgrade tier, no locked chapters.
New starters, automatically
Nothing to re-book when your staff list changes.
Want bar model training in your building? A whole-school INSET day includes this membership free for the year.
£1,299
and after all that…
Problem Solved!
One bar model method your whole staff can hold, for £399 a year — and not a single day out of the timetable to learn it.
£399
a year, unlimited staff
214
videos, EYFS to Year 6
84%
rated our training Excellent (2016–17)
No INSET
day, no supply cover