Maths

Enjoy Maths and study it with a sense of confidence and achievement.
Achieve a high standard in numeracy and gain a secure foundation of knowledge, skills and concepts.
Be fluent and have secure mathematical skills and knowledge accompanied by a quick recall of basic number facts.
Use and apply these skills with confidence and understanding in real life problems and within mathematics itself.
Have an awareness of the use of maths in the world outside the classroom.
Develop understanding through a process of enquiry and experience.
Develop persistence and a growth mindset through sustained work over a period of time.
Develop an ability to think logically and to use mathematical language to problem solve and reason with confidence and understanding.
Have a positive attitude towards mathematics as an interesting and creative subject.
Display a Growth Mindset attitude and understanding that mistakes help us learn.

Embedding the Mastery Approach across the school, using White Rose Maths, in line with the National Curriculum.
Introducing key vocabulary at the start of new learning.
Incorporating the use of objects, pictures, words and numbers to help children explore and demonstrate mathematical ideas, enrich their learning experience and deepen understanding at all levels.
Organising, challenging and encouraging children to take part in challenges such as Primary Maths and First Maths.
Monitoring progress closely and consolidating understanding through additional practice and support where necessary.
Spending longer on topics and teaching the children step-by-step to ensure that they develop conceptual understanding along with procedural fluency.
Scaffolding questioning and by engaging learners through varied reasoning and problem solving tasks.
Using skilled TAs to address any learning gaps through interventions (eg: Power of 1 and 2).
Creating cross-curricular links (eg: counting balls in hoops in PE for EYFS).