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St Augustine's CofE Primary School

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Our Vision (Intent)

At St Augustine’s CE Primary School, mathematics is taught discretely in a daily lesson as well as forming part of a lessons. We aim to provide a mathematical curriculum that contributes to the acquisition of life-long skills and promotes enjoyment and enthusiasm for learning through practical activity, exploration and discussion.

We believe that Mathematics at St Augustine’s Primary should be creative and engaging. It should be presented through a context which is meaningful and stimulating for all children at their own level. Children should be confidently able to apply their skills and knowledge to imaginatively solve problems. Lessons include whole class, group, paired and individual work. Problem solving and reasoning are an important part of every lesson.  Learning through a clear progression of mental and written methods, children develop understanding and the skills to carry out calculations independently.

Mathematics is a creative and highly interconnected discipline that has been developed over centuries, providing the solution to some of history’s most intriguing problems. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.

Aims
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 and accurately
  • 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

Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. The programmes of study are, by necessity, organised into apparently distinct domains, but pupils should make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. They should also apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects.

The expectation is that the majority of pupils will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of pupils’ understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems before any acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding, including through additional practice, before moving on.

What does this look like in our school? (Implementation)

At St Augustine’s CE Primary, we follow an approach to teaching mathematics that involves using concrete materials, pictorial representations and abstract representations in every year group. This ensures a understanding of mathematical concepts during individual lessons and over time.

 

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Our spiral curriculum builds up knowledge over time, enabling all children to become confident mathematicians.

Throughout the school, maths lessons promote discussion and exploration, with a strong emphasis on mathematical language, speaking in full sentences, and reasoning (by children consistently being required to explain how they know).

Maths lessons include specific questions, which draw out children’s understanding and identify and misconceptions immediately. Examples of these questions include:

  • How do you know?
  • What do you know?
  • What do you see?
  • What is the relationship between…?
  • Say it in a full sentence
  • What if…
  • Prove how you know
  • Talk to me in fractions/measure/ shape properties (correct Maths vocab)
  • Is there another way?
  • Use resources to explain your thinking
  • Tell me about…
  • Show me another way
  • If you know that, what else do you know?
  • What is the same and what is different?
  • Can you be more specific?
  • Does that always apply?
  • What makes you think that?
  • How does that fit in (with)?
  • What is happening?
  • What is likely to happen?

What difference does this make? (Impact)

How are children assessed?

Each child is assessed daily, through assessment for learning and teaching is tailored to meet the needs of the children. 

Children will take a test at the end of each term.

Children take SATs tests at the end of year 2 and year 6 and a times tables test at the end of year 4.

What's been going on in Maths across school this term?