The purpose for teaching Mathematics
At Eastfield Primary School, maths is a core element of our curriculum where all children are challenged. Through our maths teaching, we provide opportunities that enable all pupils to make progress. The maths curriculum aims to provide children with the confidence and thinking strategies to tackle practical and problem-solving situations in everyday life. It has been constructed to reflect the Teaching for Mastery approach, which we believe will allow children to achieve high standards.
The teaching and learning of Mathematics
Our children’s learning journey starts in pre-school and reception, where a number sense approach is taken for children to master number. For each number, we follow the number trajectories for counting and cardinality, comparison and composition. Across the age range, one number will be focused on by looking at different representations, positioning on a number line and number bonds. Children will use this knowledge of number to solve problems and to apply these skills to their own investigations in the continuous provision. NCETM trajectories are also used for shape and space, measure and pattern and the provision and resources are open ended, giving lots of opportunities to explore these.
The Key Stage 1 and 2 maths curriculum is taught and supported by using and adapting White Rose Maths, which works alongside the National Curriculum as it breaks objectives down into small steps. The structure to a maths lesson at Eastfield is consistent across the Key Stage phases. Each lesson follows the same lesson design:
- Skills and Drills
- Thinking deeper question
- Introducing new vocabulary
- I
- We
- Hinge question
- You
- Exit ticket
This structure allows children to embed their knowledge and for teachers to use formative assessment throughout the lesson to make each lesson responsive to meet each child’s need.
The outcomes of our Mathematics curriculum
By the time children leave Eastfield, we want all pupils to be confident and competent mathematicians. They will be able to work with numbers and also develop the ability to reason, use known mathematical facts and explain their reasoning to a mathematical problem.
Our long term overview
Continued Professional Development
We understand and value the need for continued professional development within our teaching team and so we have built links with other schools through the Bradgate Education Partnership, the NCETM and the local Maths Hubs. This ensures staff are well-supported and that they can support all children effectively.