Maths
Leadership of Maths at Grove Primary School.
Accountable & Responsible: Miss Lucy Fayers
Curriculum Intent
Curriculum Implementation
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Children acquire and practice key skills including; arithmetic, times tables etc.
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Have opportunities to develop fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills..
We also strongly believe children learn best when there is a shift from short term memory to long term memory. For this reason, our Maths curriculum includes opportunities to ensure depth of learning through regular planned retrieval opportunities.
When possible and appropriate, curriculum links are developed. Maths will be explored and applied across the whole curriculum and children will be able to apply knowledge and skills across the curriculum.
As such, our whole school environment enables children to use a range of resources and encourages independent reasoning and problem solving. All children (from Nursery to Year 6) are encouraged to use concrete and pictorial representations to show, prove and explain their abstract thoughts and mathematical working. This also develops a conceptual understanding that enables children to transfer their mathematical skills into real life contexts.
Curriculum Impact
We aspire for children to leave Grove Primary with a skill set that enables them to reason and problem solve in a technologically evolving world, ensuring they are confident to tackle any mathematical challenges they may face.
Long Term and Medium Term Plans
Our teachers use our Long Term Plans to plan and teach lessons which are well sequenced and enable all pupils to build on their prior knowledge to develop a conceptual understanding of key mathematical principles. They use our Medium Term documents to identify key steps within each unit to allow full coverage of the Primary Mathematics curriculum. Our highly skilled teachers use these resources to plan differentiated lessons that meet the developmental needs of each child, allowing them to progress to their next stage of learning. Grove Primary works closely with Westwood Primary to share skill sets and subject knowledge to ensure lessons are always of the highest quality.
Maths Long Term PlanYear 1 and 2 Mixed Maths Example Medium Term Plan
Our calculation policy outlines a structured progression model designed to develop children’s mathematical reasoning, problem-solving skills, and numerical fluency. It supports children in advancing through each stage at a pace suited to their individual needs, building on familiar models and representations from prior learning. This approach fosters deeper conceptual understanding and promotes lasting fluency in mathematics. It is underpinned by the idea of introducing children to new mathematical concepts first with concrete resources, followed by pictorial representations, moving to abstract methods when they are ready.
At Grove Primary School, we value the importance of children's times table knowledge. We understand that a secure understanding of multiplication facts will support children's arithmetic skills by developing their fluency and will enable them to access other areas of the curriculum more readily.
Because of this, we follow a LTP to map out the teaching of times table facts to support the children's understanding and automaticity of recall.