Maths Intent Statement
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new"
- Albert Einstein
Mathematics helps us to make sense of our world. It is a universal language used to explain, predict and represent events and tackle everyday problems. Mathematics is important to our modern society. It is an essential part of everyone’s daily life and critical to science, technology, finance, and engineering. Mathematics is necessary for independent living.
At Holly Spring, we aim to develop and nurture our children so that they become confident, independent and fluent mathematicians, who can reason mathematically. We want all children to enjoy Mathematics and to experience success in the subject. We are committed to developing children’s curiosity about maths, as well as an appreciation of the beauty and power of Mathematics.
At Holly Spring, our curriculum drivers, knowledge, aspiration and experience, are fully embedded in our maths curriculum. Within these values we aim to:
Knowledge:
- Build the children’s understanding and skills in maths through a mastery approach and by following the White Rose scheme of learning to ensure there is a progression of skills and a coverage of all small steps.
- To aid the pupils conceptual understanding through the use of pictorial, concrete and abstract representations.
- Provide pupils with access to knowledge organisers for each mathematical concept to support their understanding and help develop independence.
- Allow children the time to develop fluency though ‘maths musts’ steps.
- To develop the mathematical language of learners across the school with the use of stem sentences to articulate their own ideas.
Aspiration:
- For all pupils to become confident and successful in mathematics.
- For pupils to develop the perseverance needed to tackle new challenges inside and outside school.
- Build all pupils resilience in maths
- For all pupils to develop a positive attitude towards mathematics
Experience:
- Provide access to wide ranging resources to enable learners to explore and to support their growing understanding.
- Provide children with opportunities to apply their knowledge in real life situations.
- Ensure pupils have opportunities to apply their mathematical knowledge across the curriculum.
Subject Overview Map
Progression of Skills
Maths lessons at Holly Spring Primary
All Maths lessons at Holly Spring Primary follow the same struture to ensure consistency and allow children to reflect and retrieve previous learning.
Maths Musts at Holly Spring Primary School
To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we ask them to learn one step of their Maths Musts each half term. We expect children to practise their Maths Musts at least 3 times a week in the classroom.
These lists of Maths Musts align with the national curriculum. They are intended to be challenging and it is intended that children will be taught the necessary maths in lessons beforehand.
White Rose overviews
