Our Curriculum – Maths

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Winchelsea’s Mathematics Curriculum Intent

We aim to provide a high-quality mathematics education for our children which aims to ensure that all pupils: 

• become fluent in the fundamentals of maths through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
• 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.

At Winchelsea, we intend to develop confident mathematicians through the following means:

• We promote a lasting interest, appreciation and enjoyment of mathematics
• We enable each pupil to develop, within his/her capabilities, the mathematical skills and understanding required for further study
•  We encourage pupils to make links between different areas of mathematics in order to understand the full picture
• We foster and develop imagination, intuition, creativity and logical thinking
• We make each pupil aware that mathematics provides a powerful means of communication
• We develop independent learning skills in mathematics
• We challenge the common misconceptions that may appear in maths learning 
• Children self and peer mark in order to assess how successful they have been and what their next steps will be to take ownership of their own learning and progress

  

Curriculum Implementation

The Winchelsea Maths Curriculum follows the main concepts of fluency, reasoning and problem solving.

We plan from the 2014 mathematics curriculum, which can be viewed on the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study

We follow White Rose Maths to support the teaching of maths at our school.

Our Maths Mastery curriculum has been developed to ensure every child can achieve excellence in mathematics. Maths Mastery 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 and abstract approach so that pupils understand and embed concepts. 

We are members of the East Midlands Maths Hub, participating in a variety of projects and opportunities to develop Maths Mastery throughout the school.

Home learning

Children are encouraged to learn their basic number facts and times tables. We enjoy using TTrockstars.

We use Mathletics, an online platform to use and apply our maths skills as part of our home learning.