Mathematics

At Warley Town School, we are fully committed to developing and ensuring a balance between children’s procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. As a school, we follow the White Rose documents to ensure that we have the breadth and depth across our mathematics curriculum. In addition to this, the teachers also use a range of other resources, including Number Sense and NRich. The sequence, which is followed, ensures that we are building on the children’s depth of understanding when teaching each mathematical skill. At the beginning of each maths lesson, our children consolidate their prior knowledge with ‘retrieval practice’. This is to ensure prior knowledge is constantly drawn upon.

We have high expectations of all of our children and we expect most of them to move through the curriculum at broadly the same pace, with appropriate challenges at each stage that encourage problem-solving and reasoning for all children. For those children who are not sufficiently confident, the pitch and pace of the work will be adapted to their stage of learning, ensuring that progress is made by all.

Our whole school maths vision is to:

• Encourage and foster positive attiudes and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity through the teaching and learning of mathematical concepts.
• Develop a ‘can do’ attitude in our children so that they see themselves as mathematicians, especially when problem solving.
• Broaden our children’s knowledge and understanding of how maths is used in the wider world by making rich and varied real life connections.
• Enable our children to confidently reason about their mathematics, using a range of accurate mathematical language.
• Use a wide range of models and visual/concrete manipulatives to develop deep conceptual understanding.
• Build upon and strengthen our children’s knowledge and accuracy when recalling number facts.
• Implement the current legal requirements of the EYFS and National Curriculum 2014.

Calculation Policy (Addition & Subtraction)

Calculation Policy (Multiplication & Division)

Our approach to teaching in maths is one that is based on concrete, pictorial and abstract use of number which children can then use confidently to reason and solve problems.

We encourage children to develop their mathematical thinking as well as their knowledge of maths.

Children regularly practice mental recall and key skills in addition to maths lessons where new skills are introduced and children have the opportunity to apply and consolidate their learning in a variety of ways.

We follow the White Rose Maths scheme:

Class W - Reception

Class A - Year 1 & 2

Class R - Year 2 & 3

Class L - Year 4

Class E - Year 5

Class Y - Year 6

Children are expected to consolidate their learning of times tables at home (3 - 5 times a week) and complete workbooks at the end of each block of learning.