Bar model training and CPD · EYFS to Year 6
Bar model training for schools
The Bar Model Company trains primary teachers and support staff in the bar model method, working alongside the scheme your school already uses. Choose an in-school training day, an EYFS ten frames half day, maths lead support or the whole-school membership — or talk to us about something shorter.
Works with the scheme you already use
EYFS to Year 6, in your building or online
Every teacher and TA, not one nominated attendee
The membership included free for the year with the training day
Training at a glance
- ✓In-school training day: £1,299, whole staff
- ✓EYFS ten frames half day: £599
- ✓Whole-school membership: £399 a year, unlimited staff
- ✓Half day, twilight or team teaching: book a call
Travel included for mainland UK on the in-school day.
Ways to train
Pick the format that fitsyour school’s calendar.
Every format teaches the same method and works alongside your scheme. Where a price is shown it is for the school, not per teacher.
£1,299 · whole staff
In-school training day
Every teacher and TA in your school in one day, with EYFS, KS1 and KS2 strands, modelled in your classrooms with your children.
- The whole-school membership free for the year
- Travel included for mainland UK
- A maths lead session at the end of the day
£599 · EYFS team
EYFS ten frames half day
A hands-on half day for the people who teach four- to six-year-olds, on ten frames. Not a whole-school session with an EYFS bit bolted on.
- Six hands-on tasks, worked by every teacher
- Printables for every task, to take away
- Nursery staff and TAs included
£1,299 · whole staff
Maths mastery training
Singapore maths and teaching for mastery CPD: a whole-staff day on concrete, pictorial and abstract (CPA), taught as one sequence.
- EYFS to Year 6 in a day, in your building
- Scheme-agnostic: we do not replace your scheme
- Whole staff, one invoice, no supply cover
Maths leads
Maths lead CPD
Training for maths coordinators who need one good idea to survive in rooms they are not standing in.
- Eleven webinars, ready for a twenty-minute staff meeting slot
- New starters get the same library in their first week
- £399 a year covers unlimited staff
£399 a year · unlimited staff
Whole-school membership
One login for every teacher you employ, EYFS to Year 6, working alongside the scheme you already own.
- Not per teacher, not per key stage
- September starters included automatically
- Watch the lesson the night before you teach it
Book a call
Half day or twilight
Up to 2.5 hours of training, either in the morning or as a twilight session. Ideal for schools with no whole-day INSETs left in the calendar.
Book a call →Book a call
Team teaching
A morning of team teaching in KS2, from 8:30 to 12, covering up to three lessons on bar modelling or on visualisation and maths mastery.
- Recommended as a pair of half days
- Day one: meet the classes and plan together
- Day two: we lead the teaching, then send a written summary to the maths lead or headteacher
Included in the membership
Online courses
The Bar Model Course and the EYFS Ten Frames Course on video, for every teacher on your staff list: no cover, no date to find.
See the online courses →What the training covers
From the first barto the hardest problem.
You set the focus beforehand. These are the topics we train on, and the shape of each session is agreed on the call.
Core
Essentials of bar modelling
Starts with the core essentials: why a bar, and where it starts. Then moves on to the more challenging aspects.
Mastery
Teaching to mastery
Visualisation and mastery: concrete, pictorial and abstract taught as one sequence, including the pictorial stage that is so often skipped.
EYFS and Year 1
Five and ten frames
Five and ten frames for number in EYFS and Year 1, before any bar gets drawn.
Advanced
Advanced bar modelling
Harder questions, including “before and after” problems.
Secondary
Secondary bar modelling
Bar modelling for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
Parents
Parent workshops
Workshops that help parents use bar models and visual approaches.
How a training day works
It isn’t a lecture.Your staff do the maths.
A full day typically runs from 9am to 3pm, with about five hours of training. Teachers spend most of the time working problems themselves, because that is the only way the method survives contact with a real class.
Before
A twenty-minute call
We agree what the day is actually for — the year groups you are worried about, the topic that keeps going wrong, whether your TAs are joining.
Morning
Why a bar, and where it starts
Whole staff together, with manipulatives in hand and the CPA approach as the thread.
Mid-morning
Split into strands
EYFS and KS1 in one room, KS2 in another, each working on examples that fit its children.
Afternoon
In your classrooms, with your children
Modelled live rather than described. Staff watch the questioning, then take a group themselves.
After
The library goes live
Every teacher on your staff list gets the membership that afternoon.
Timings are indicative — the shape of the day is agreed on the call beforehand.
How booking works
Three steps fromfirst call to training day.
We plan the training together, so it fits your school rather than a generic session.
- 1
Book a discovery call
Twenty minutes to discuss your school’s needs and plan the training together.
- 2
Confirm the package and dates
Agree the format and a date that suits your calendar.
- 3
We send the materials in advance
So you are ready for a hands-on day.
What schools said afterwards
Feedback from schoolsthat trained with us.
From the feedback forms teachers completed at the end of our in-school training days.
★★★★★
It was very engaging and challenging. It really made you think about our teaching approach to mathematical concepts. All staff were engaged — teaching and support staff.You knew straight away that the training would have a big impact on pupil progress.
Kate CrawfordHeadteacher, Milford on Sea Primary
★★★★★
A lot was covered, giving us a very good grounding in the underlying principles of bar modelling.Inspirational in terms of practical ideas, modelled questioning and use of resources.
Alison TimmingsHeadteacher, William Gilpin Primary School
Not sure which format?Talk it through first.
Tell us about your school and we will tell you which format fits — or whether a day is the wrong thing for you.
£1,299 for the in-school day, whole staff, travel included for mainland UK — and the whole-school membership free for the year.