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Millom Infant School
Every child a learner, we all learn together
Maths
Our Vision
Mathematics is a tool for everyday life. It is a whole network of concepts and relationships, which provide a way of viewing and making sense of the world. It is used to analyse and communicate information and ideas and to tackle a range of practical tasks and real life problems. It also provides the materials and means for creating new imaginative worlds to explore. It is integral to all aspects of life and with this in mind we endeavour to ensure that children develop a healthy and enthusiastic attitude towards mathematics that will stay with them to encourage economic wellbeing.
Our Mathematics curriculum has been developed to ensure every child can achieve excellence in mathematics. Children can discover different solutions and make links between different areas of mathematics. It provides pupils with a deep understanding of the subject through a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach. This ensures pupils fully understand what they are learning.
Our Aims
- To implement the current legal requirements of the Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum
- To foster positive attitudes, fascination and excitement of discovery through the teaching and learning of mathematical concepts
- To ensure pupils become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, developing conceptual knowledge and an ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
- To ensure that pupils can reason mathematically and solve problems
- For our children to develop a ‘can do’ attitude and perceive themselves as mathematicians.
- To broaden children’s knowledge and understanding of how mathematics is used in the wider world
- For our children to use and understand mathematical language and recognise its importance as a language for communication and thinking.
Our Curriculum
At St. Bridget's, our Maths curriculum places emphasis on the cumulative mastery of essential knowledge and skills in mathematics. It embeds a deeper understanding of maths by utilising a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach so that pupils understand what they are doing rather than just learning to repeat routines without grasping what is happening.
The key features of our Mathematics curriculum are:
- High expectations for every child
- Fewer topics, greater depth
- Number sense and place value come first
- Focus on mathematical thinking and language
- Using concrete apparatus and resources to support learning
- Problem solving is central
- Calculate with confidence' – understand why it works
Planning for our Mathematics Curriculum
At Millom Infant School, we use the White Rose Maths resources to support us in our planning:
- Long term plans map out the units to be covered each term, during each Key Stage.
- Medium term plans identify learning objectives and outcomes for each unit, as well as indicating the skills being taught.
- Short term plans prepared by each teacher, highlight the skills and objectives of the lesson, and identify resources and appropriate differentiation.
- 'White Rose Maths' forms the core of all our planning and teaching in maths in year 1 and year 2. Reception follow mastering number for place value and White Rose for the others areas.
- This is a mastery approach to maths, which encourages in-depth coverage of concepts over the year and over the school life of your child.
- White Rose Maths enables the children to move from concrete to pictorial to abstract understanding of mathematical ideas and concepts.
- It also develops deep-learning in maths, so that children can apply the skills they have learned in a range of 'real-life' and problem-solving contexts, as well as in other subjects across the curriculum