Our Maths curriculum is designed to cover all of the knowledge and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum. Our intent in Maths is for children to experience a high-quality maths education that provides a foundation for understanding the world and a genuine interest and curiosity about mathematics. Our aim is that children develop a deep understanding and knowledge of number sense and become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics.
We want all of our pupils to:
- Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practise with increasingly complex problems over time, so that children have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately.
- Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
- Solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
Core Elements of Maths Teaching
- Engaging and inspiring lessons that promote critical thinking and curiosity.
- High quality instruction and questioning with teachers providing carefully planned sequenced lessons that build on knowledge, skills and understanding.
- Retrieval of previous learning and explicit links through concepts that connect new learning with what the children already know.
- Carefully chosen resources that support development through the concrete, pictorial and abstract.
- Regular and robust opportunities for deliberate practice and assessment.
- High quality talk providing children with opportunities to use precise mathematical vocabulary in context.
- Carefully chosen and planned lessons and activities that are scaffold and adapted to ensure all children meet the intent of the maths curriculum.
Curriculum
To ensure children develop secure knowledge to build upon, our curriculum is delivered as a cyclical / progression model that outlines the knowledge, skills and vocabulary to be taught in a sequentially coherent way from Reception to Year 6. Learning is carefully ordered to build upon prior learning in small, manageable steps.
Number fact fluency is practised during daily fluency sessions and regularly through activities such as, discrete timestable teaching and mental starters.
Cultural Capital
Children are offered a wide range of enriching and engaging experiences which are designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them and the concepts taught within mathematics. Regular enrichment opportunities such as Science Day and Work Week provide opportunity to learn in context. Cross-curricular learning experiences provide a variety of opportunities to practise and explore the same skills and understanding in different subject areas such as computing, science and geography.
Home Learning
Home learning resources are provided including access to Times table Rock Stars and Mathletics.
Accessibility for all children
Our expectation is that the majority of children will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace through supporting children with additional inputs, interventions, peer support and resources.
For more information on our approach to teaching Mathematics, please look at our coffee morning timetable for the next available session or make an appointment in the school office to speak with our Maths subject leader.
