How to communicate about Number Confidence Week
Tweak or tailor these templates for your emails, newsletters, internal comms, social media and more.
Our tone of voice is always friendly, inclusive, empowering and supportive, never patronising or competitive. We also recognise that external context matters, so messaging can be flexed where needed. If you have any concerns about promoting Number Confidence Week, please do get in touch.
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• Promoting your involvement
• Encouraging other schools
• Getting parents and carers involved
• Email template for your school community
Promoting your involvement
Short (for social media)
- We're taking part in Number Confidence Week! Join us from 2-8 November as we help children feel positive and confident about numbers. Find free activities and resources at www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numberconfidenceweek
- It's Number Confidence Week! We're celebrating all the ways children use numbers in school, at home and in everyday life.
- Numbers are everywhere – and everyone can build their confidence with them. We're proud to be taking part in Number Confidence Week this November.
- We're celebrating Number Confidence Week from 2-8 November with fun activities designed to help children see numbers differently and grow their confidence.
Long (for newsletters, parent emails or your school website)
This November, we're taking part in Number Confidence Week, the UK's only week dedicated to improving confidence with everyday maths.
From 2-8 November, we'll be helping children explore the numbers they use every day and showing that maths isn't only something that happens in the classroom – it's all around us.
We'll be using free activities and resources from National Numeracy to encourage positive conversations about numbers and help children build their confidence.
Find out more at www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numberconfidenceweek
Encouraging other schools to sign up
Help us recruit nurseries, schools and children’s community groups to get involved.
- Calling all teachers! Sign up for Number Confidence Week and get free activities and resources to help children feel positive about numbers.
- Could your school join us for Number Confidence Week? Sign up for free resources, activities and ideas to help build children's number confidence: www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numberconfidenceweek/school-sign-up
- We're taking part in Number Confidence Week from 2–8 November – and we'd love other schools to join us! Sign up for free, engaging resources designed to help children build a positive relationship with numbers.
Getting parents and carers involved
Short
- We're celebrating Number Confidence Week! Why not ask your child where they've used numbers today? You might be surprised by how many they can spot.
- Maths is everywhere – from cooking dinner and checking the time to sport, shopping and games. This Number Confidence Week, we're encouraging families to notice and talk about the numbers they use every day.
- You don't need to be a maths expert to help your child feel confident with numbers. Talking positively about maths and exploring numbers together can make a difference.
Long
We’ll be celebrating Number Confidence Week from 2-8 November – the UK's only week dedicated to improving confidence with everyday maths.
Helping with children’s maths homework can sometimes bring back our own worries or insecurities about maths. If that sounds familiar, take charge of your own number confidence too. National Numeracy's free adult toolkit is packed with simple, practical ways to build confidence with numbers – helping you feel more comfortable when homework time comes around.
Sign up here www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numberconfidenceweek/adults-sign-up
Email template for your school community
We’re taking part in Number Confidence Week from 2–8 November, and we’d love our whole school community to get involved.
The way we talk about numbers can make a real difference to children’s confidence. By using numbers positively at home and showing children how useful they are in everyday life, parents and carers can help children feel more confident too – and you don’t need to be a maths expert to help.
Simply noticing the numbers you use together – while cooking, shopping, travelling, playing games or following sport – can help children see that maths is useful, relevant and something they already use every day.
Number Confidence Week is also a chance for parents, carers and staff to build their own confidence too! National Numeracy’s free and confidential National Numeracy Challenge lets you brush up on everyday maths skills in your own time and at your own pace – whether you want to feel more confident helping with homework or simply using numbers in everyday life.
Want to get involved at home? Take a look at the Number Confidence Week page and sign up for free resources, practical tools and ideas to help you and your family feel better about numbers.
Get involved in Number Confidence Week: www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numberconfidenceweek
