Maths

We strive towards shaping assured, happy and resilient mathematicians who relish the challenge of maths.  Our aim is for our children to become independent, reflective thinkers, whose skills not only liberate them in maths but also support them across the curriculum. Mathematics is important in everyday life. It is integral to all aspects of life and, with this in mind, we endeavour to ensure that our pupils develop a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards Mathematics that will stay with them. The Mathematics curriculum equips pupils with a powerful set of tools to help them understand and change the world. These tools include making connections, logical reasoning, and the ability to think in abstract ways.

The national curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
• can 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

Children will be taught maths for at least 5 hours a week, usually daily. Throughout the year, they will focus on the key number skills of place value and the four operations and fractions, to secure the conceptual understanding necessary to enable generalisation and reasoning. Alongside this, they will learn about measures, geometry and statistics.

Mathematics Lead: Mrs Rowley