Mathematics at St Paul's

At St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, children are encouraged to enjoy Mathematics and become enthusiastic mathematicians by developing skills, knowledge and understanding through practical experiences which have relevance and purpose in everyday situations. It is important that children develop skills to become lifelong learners. They should be able to apply these skills in different situations across the curriculum and in daily living outside school.

• In Early Years the children work towards achieving the Early Learning Goals through practical and fun activities. Activities are adult led and support children of all abilities.
• Throughout EYFS, KS1 and KS2 we follow the White Rose Hub mastery planning. We ensure children have the opportunity to use the CPA (concrete, pictorial and abstract) approach to learning.
• We use KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) to develop the quick recall of key mathematics facts which can be found below.

Our aims are:

• All children to become fluent in the fundamentals of Mathematics through varied and frequent practice of increasingly complex problems over time.
• All children develop the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
• All children develop the ability to solve problems through decision making and reasoning in a range of contexts.
• All children develop mathematical language through speaking and listening, practical activities and recording work.
• Children are monitored through termly assessments against the National curriculum standards.

Children are given opportunities to reinforce their mathematical knowledge and make links through the whole curriculum, particularly science, history and geography.  Teachers also try to link the children’s problem solving to their current topic where appropriate.  To support the learning of times tables Year 2 – 6 have access to Times Table Rockstars.

The results from both the formative assessment and summative assessment is then used to determine children’s progress and attainment.

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