IMPLEMENTATION
At English Martyrs’ Primary School for maths, our long term planning follows the National Curriculum 2014. To ensure full topic coverage, lessons follow Southwark medium term Mathematics planning support framework and calculation policy. Daily maths lessons include fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Lessons are engaging and follow a cycle of planning, to ensure that we can evidence progress over short and long periods of time. Maths lessons are designed with a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach, providing our pupils with the scaffolding required to access the learning at all levels. Lessons are differentiated to ensure there is appropriate challenge for all learners.
Feedback is given on children’s learning in line with our feedback policy. Formative assessment within every lesson helps teachers to identify the children who need more support to achieve the intended outcome and who are ready for greater stretch and challenge through planned questioning or additional activities. In order to support teacher judgments, children are assessed using current and reliable tests in line with the national curriculum for maths. Analysis of any tests that the children complete is undertaken and fed into future planning.
At the end of the academic year, summative test are completed and help influence the overall judgement reported to parents in the end of year report.
IMPACT
The impact of the curriculum is monitored through book looks, lesson observations, formal and summative assessments.
The impact can be seen when a child can show a mathematical skill or concept in multiple ways, using the mathematical language to explain their ideas, and can independently apply the concept to new problems in unfamiliar situations. That a child can demonstrate recall of facts and procedures. This includes the recollection of the times tables.
Children who not making the required progress are given extra support through booster sessions and support in class in order to meet our intent of developing pupils academically.
The intent of our mathematics curriculum is to provide children with a foundation for understanding number, reasoning, thinking logically and problem solving with resilience so that they are fully prepared for the future. It is essential that these keystones of Mathematics are embedded throughout all strands of the National Curriculum. We intend for our pupils to be able to apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects.
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