Maths

Maths in the Bible

Children become familiar with the use of mathematical references in the Bible. They use their number understanding to find references and immerse themselves in scripture.

Intent

Our curriculum has been developed to meet the national curriculum, and we have selected some of our programmes of study that we recognise to be challenging, age progressive and reflective of preparing children for their next key stage of study.

In developing maths skills, we will:

Provide children with a common and progressive maths language used throughout the school.
Engage all learners in the enjoyment of maths and enable them to speak with increasing confidence about their maths understanding using an extensive and age appropriate vocabulary consistently modelled by adults.
Systematically use concrete, pictorial and abstract resources to support learners across the school.
Children make good or better progress in their maths learning as they progress through school. Where this is not happening, we will work with the SENCO and other agencies to identify any support that your child needs help from.
Books are marked using in compliance with our Feedback and Marking Policy and marking has impact on future learning.
Provide a learning environment communicates a love of maths.
All children make good or better progress.
Train all our staff to be confident teachers of maths.
Plan our teaching to challenge all children to make good progress.
Maths Mastery skills are taught to all children in school.

Implementation

We teach maths to KS1 using

Progressive teaching in line with our Calculation Policy
Use of our school wide maths vocabulary
Mastering number curriculum
White Rose Maths curriculum
Familiarisation with problem-solving
Workbooks to support daily problem-solving
Introduction of maths exercise books to familiarise children with use of book layout on squared paper and to introduce our whole-school expectations for presentation to learners.
Quality first teaching
Maths interventions for identified children to close learning gaps and respond to identified learning needs
Regular half-termly reviews of progress in maths learning through teacher assessment, formal testing, leadership monitoring and pupil review meetings

We teach maths to KS1 using

Progressive teaching in line with our Calculation Policy
Systematic teaching in an agreed and synchronised lesson sequence
Use of our school wide maths vocabulary
White Rose Maths curriculum
Focus on problem-solving
Workbooks to support daily problem-solving where a need is identified
Use of maths exercise books using book layout on squared paper and teaching whole-school expectations for presentation to learners.
Quality first teaching
Maths interventions for identified children to close learning gaps and respond to identified learning needs
Regular half-termly reviews of progress in maths learning through teacher assessment, formal testing, leadership monitoring and pupil review meetings
Confidence building strategies to build independence in maths
Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS) to support children to learn their times tables
The Plus One curriculum scheme to develop confidence and basic number skills for children with identified learning needs
PiXL therapies and other interventions with teachers and support staff to accelerate learning and close any learning gaps
Workbooks for children with identified learning needs
Problem-solving and other extensions for more able learners
Tailored support and adapted learning in lessons for those with identified need
TTRS competitions to incentivise and reward learning
Well-resourced classrooms with working walls, concrete manipulative and other scaffolds to support learning
Parental engagement to support understanding of how we teach maths
Videos to support home learning for parents and carers (under development)
Homework to reinforce what has already been taught
Setting end of key stage targets 2022 2023 Targets

Impact

Parent Support Videos

EYFS
Subitising - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7qa8xObXCc

KS1

UKS2
Short Division - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ88Ym2VAxU
Multiplying a 2-digit number by a decimal number - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jjs-eiXzqk
Multiplying a 4-digit number by a 2-digits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jjs-eiXzqk
Multiplying a 4-digit number by a 1-digit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJd1ef2sdYA
Multiplication Grid Method - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-apwiGBHEU