Taking a "mastery" approach:
Our vision at Kingswood Primary School is for all children to become fluent mathematicians, with a deep and secure understanding of concepts, enabling them to reason and solve problems in a range of contexts. We have adopted a Teaching for Mastery approach to our mathematics curriculum. Children are guided along a coherent, small step journey together, using concrete, pictorial and abstract representations to explore concepts and build connections, with opportunities to both support and challenge thinking and reasoning. As a school we work closely with the GLOW Maths hub. One of our teachers is a Primary Maths Specialist in Teaching for Mastery and supports other local schools to develop this approach.
Conceptual understanding is developed through concrete (physical) and visual representations and children demonstrate their learning through "Do it" tasks which are carefully prepared by teachers. Children are given the opportunity to explain their reasoning as part of "Twist it" tasks in the daily maths lessons. They are also challenged by being exposed to a variety of rich and sophisticated problems, labelled "Solve it" challenges. Through daily assessment and observation, we are able to support and accelerate learning for each pupil.
Classes in Key Stages One and Two hold review sessions which enable the children to practise, embed and therefore become fluent in their number facts and working with number and the four operations (+, -, x and ÷). We encourage a positive mindset in our children and believe that all children are able to succeed in mathematics.
In years 1-6 we follow the CanDo Maths small steps to provide our children with a coherent journey through their learning in mathematics. Please see below for more information about what this looks like in each year group.
Teachers make use of progression documents when starting a new unit of work and to help identify gaps in learning. Here is an example showing the progression in Place Value, which has been taken from the knowledge organisers available for each year group (please see maths content under class pages to view these):
Number:
Children at the expected level of development will:
Numerical patterns:
Children at the expected level of development will:
Progression into KS1 and KS2
Our work in the Early Years flows into our KS1 and KS2 curriculum, which follows the National Curriculum for mathematics: