Intent of Mathematics at Maryvale

Our intent at Maryvale, is to develop a deep understanding, confidence and competence in Maths for all our pupils. A culture that produces strong, secure learning with real progress. We take the mastery approach to Maths teaching by following the White Rose Maths motto of ‘Everyone Can Do Maths: Everyone Can!’ and there is no such thing as anyone who can’t do Maths. We aim to give children the right support, guidance and resources so that all children can become confident and skilled in Maths and no child is left to fall behind.

We follow the White Rose Scheme of work. This scheme maps out the topics throughout each year group into blocks. The White Rose Scheme shows clear progression between the year groups, but it is also a cumulative curriculum, meaning that once a topic is covered, it is met many times again in other contexts. Each block of knowledge is divided into small learning steps and together these small steps cover all the curriculum content the children need to learn. By learning Maths in small, related chunks, children will remember more.

Our lessons at Maryvale focus on the three main elements to Maths in the National Curriculum; to be fluent, to reason and to problem-solve. All children will be exposed to these three areas throughout their Maths lessons, by using an enabling and extending approach. The majority of the children are working on the age-related content for their year group and marking is used to indicate which children need to have a specialised curriculum to suit their needs. Children are working on their retention of previous knowledge through the use of Can I stills. These are used as starters in lessons to assess the children on something they learnt last lesson, last week, last term and last year.

SEND

Our maths curriculum is designed support inclusive maths teaching and allow all learners to access the maths curriculum. This is achieved through the use of resources within lessons.

Some children will need extra support and this may be provided in booster sessions or through specific programmes such as: First Class Number or Power of 2.

Home learning

Activities will be set on mymaths to:

- Consolidate any learning from the week

- Introduce new mathematical learning 

- Recall opportunities of key learning 

Children should spend a minimum of 15 - 20 minutes completing these tasks weekly to secure their mathematical knowledge. All children have their logins for this:

https://login.mymaths.co.uk/login 

Children can also have lots of Maths fun on the following...