Shooters Grove Primary School
Maths
In Maths, we want all children to enjoy learning and build confidence, resilience and a passion for the subject. We aim for a high-quality Maths mastery curriculum which means ensuring pupils have all the essential skills and knowledge they need year on year to succeed.
At Shooters Grove Primary School, we believe mathematics is an important part of children’s development throughout school, right from an early age. We intend on delivering a curriculum which:
· Allows children to be a part of creative and engaging lessons that will give them a range of opportunities to explore mathematics following a mastery curriculum approach.
· Gives each pupil a chance to BELIEVE in themselves as mathematicians and develop the power of resilience and perseverance when faced with mathematical challenges.
· Recognises that mathematics underpins much of our daily lives and therefore is of paramount importance in order that children ASPIRE and become successful in the next stages of their learning.
· Engages all children and entitles them to the same quality of teaching and learning opportunities, striving to ACHIEVE their potential, as they belong to our school community.
· Makes rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems.
· Provides equal opportunities for children to apply their mathematical knowledge to other subjects (cross-curricular links).
In Nursery, all activities are planned in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. They are based around our themes and the children’s current interests and needs. We use Ten Town to encourage early number recognition and counting, and a range of one-to-one and small group activities to develop mathematical thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills, including activities from nrich. We also focus on developing the children's mathematical language skills, laying the foundations for children starting Reception.
From Reception to Year 6, we use the White Rose Maths Schemes of Learning, which are designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning, as well as achieving the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum.
In Reception, children learn the counting principles and learn about cardinal numbers, classification, quantities, conservation of number, how to write numerals, ordinal numbers, partitioning and subitising. We also use resources from Numberblocks, nrich and nctem where appropriate.
EYFS Development Matters - Children in Reception
In KS1 and KS2 each teaching block is broken down into Small Steps which link to the National Curriculum objectives. Children develop fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills within four key concepts:
Number (place value; the four operations (+ - x ÷); fractions, decimals and percentages; algebra and ratio)
Statistics (data handling)
Measurement (time; money; reading scales; area, perimeter and volume)
Geometry (properties of shape; angles; position and direction).
An overview for each year group can be seen below. By clicking on an overview image it will direct you to the home learning videos linked to each topic.
Reception:
Key Stage 1:
Year 1
Year 2
Key Stage 2:
Year 3:
Year 4:
Year 5:
Year 6:
We ensure that opportunities for reasoning and problem solving are built into every lesson.
We also use a range of other teaching resources alongside White Rose Maths, including NCETM, Numberblocks, Mathssense and NRICH to develop the children’s mastery skills.
In addition to the main lesson objective, children complete a 10-15 minute Maths Fluency session daily. These cover taught content (from the current and previous year groups) to aid long term memory and are focused on oral recall, fact retrieval and fluency.
All children (Y1-Y6) have a username and password which allows access to both Times Tables Rockstars (to aid times tables fluency), and Numbots (to aid number skills). Click on the images below to access the login page for the relevant site.
Please contact your child's class teacher if your child can not access these for any reason. Note that the same username and password is used for both sites.
Please click here to access the subject policy for maths.
Please click on the links below to access the calculation policies: