Maths

Two Moors Primary School's Mathematics curriculum has been designed with the intent that our children will become resilient, independent, confident and fluent mathematicians. Our children will develop and apply the mathematical knowledge and skills that they will need in their daily lives beyond the classroom. We personalise and use White Rose Maths Schemes of Learning to ensure effective delivery of the maths curriculum. We will deliver a curriculum that:

• Allows the children to learn new skills which build year on year through our school.

• Allows children to use, and choose from, a wide range of manipulatives to assist learning.

• Allows children to access a range of mathematical models and images to support the learning of new concepts.

• Inspires learning through consistent and outstanding teaching practice firmly embedded in a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach.

• Builds on individual starting points and is aspirational for all children throughout the academy.

• Is inclusive and scaffolds learning to enable all children to access learning.

• Encourages our children to be self-motivated, independent and resilient by being fluent in the basic skills.

• Encourages our children to feel confident to make mistakes and learn from them.

• Challenges our children to master the maths curriculum by becoming fluent and reason about the range of methods that they choose to apply.

The maths curriculum is led and overseen by the subject leaders. A regular cycle of monitoring, evaluation and review ensures consistency of outstanding practice in our school. The teaching, learning and sequencing of the curriculum follows:

• A clear mastery approach through White Rose Maths Schemes of Learning which ensure coverage, repetition and progression in all areas of maths.

• A clear learning sequence which builds on prior learning and the development of new skills and knowledge, which is repeated within the year and beyond.

• Lessons which allow for repetition, and therefore mastery, of learning. Our maths coordinator, and other teachers across the school including ECTS, have been participating in a mastery TRG and mastery courses throughout the year. 

• Times tables are taught regularly in all year groups from the end of Year One to ensure that our children have met the curriculum objectives by the end of Year Four.

• Fluency Friday allows children to rehearse their quick recall of number facts, times tables, arithmetic skills and so on.

• A design which ensures that the needs of individual and small groups of children can be met within the environment of high quality teaching, supported by targeted, evidence based intervention where required.

Our maths curriculum will create:

• A positive impact on children’s outcomes at the end of each key stage, with an increasing percentage of children achieving the greater depth standard year upon year. 

• Enjoyment of the maths curriculum that inspires and promotes achievement and confidence.

• Children who are resilient and able to make mistakes and learn from them.

• Children who will become fluent in all basic skills and work towards mastery.

• Children who will leave Two Moors Primary ready for the next phase of learning.

• Children who will have the maths skills to solve problems beyond their classroom environment.