Greenfield Primary School
Maths
Coverage in each year group
The national curriculum for mathematics covers skills in the areas of number, calculating, measurement, geometry and statistics. It’s overarching aims are to ensure that all pupils:
- become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems
- reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
Structure of our Mathematics Lessons in KS1 and KS2
All of our maths lessons begin with a toolkit time. This is a short session which is focused on previous learning. It enables children to revisit prior objectives and apply them quickly - a little like revision.
Following the toolkit, the children are taught a new objective (or the same objective from a previous day is developed further).
Children start their independent work by doing a 'Do It' task. This checks that they can actually 'do' the skill or understand the key concepts.
They then move on to do a 'Secure It' task which involves application of the skill to a problem.
Finally, children do a 'Prove It' task which requires them to think carefully and reason with facts to explain an answer.
What is taught in each year group?
We use the White Rose maths programme. Objectives covered can be seen below.