Fluency

At St Helen's, children's mathematical fluency is developed through high quality teaching and elements of fluency are included in every lesson. 

To help children memorise and quickly workout  number facts, all children have access to Times Table Rockstars and Numbots.

Fluency time is timetabled for each class and gives teachers opportunities to develop skills needed for upcoming lessons or hone skills from previous lessons.

In Early Years children have continuous provision set out for learning. Children learn to understand, counting and cardinality, comparison, composition, patterns, shapes, space and measures.

In image above children were focussing on their counting and cardinality.  

In KS1 children are learning to about number bonds up to 20, how to bridge to 10, and odds and evens. Children learn to add and subtract up to 20. Teachers provide pupils with different resources, such as counters, rekenreks, number lines, ten frames and cubes. Children are encouraged to independently choose resources based on their needs. 

In KS2 children learn to do long divison and multiplication. Pupils have access to resources during lessons to help them problem solve.