Maths is everywhere…
I wonder which mathematical skills you have used today without even realising?
At Holy Trinity, children develop the foundations of mathematical understanding as soon as they start with us in Nursery and develop these skills day by day to ensure that they can be successful mathematicians in their lives beyond our school.
Our maths curriculum is taught using a range of mastery approaches to develop resilient mathematicians, successful problem solvers and mathematical thinkers with the ability to reason and problem solve.
Maths Lessons
Our maths lessons are structured to ensure that as well as extending new learning, children are continually revisiting previous learning across different strands of the curriculum. To embed the automatic recall of number facts, children count in multiples out loud every day and vocabulary related to each lesson is explicitly taught.
CPA
Our children’s learning of maths follows a CPA approach. Children are taught using Concrete manipulatives (C), Pictorial representations (P) and, when they are confident with a secure understanding of a concept or skill, Abstract (A). This approach develops a depth of learning and flexibility of understanding before the abstract methods such as formal calculations.
Retrieval
Retrieval Maths is an important part of our curriculum ensuring that all children are regularly given opportunities to retrieve and apply previous learning as the foundation and building blocks for new learning. Specific retrieval lessons with low stakes testing are planned into our maths curriculum in addition to retrieval-based questions at the start of every lesson.
Fluency
Fluency of number is the ability to recall key number and times tables facts accurately and at speed. Knowledge of these number facts with automaticity allows our children’s brains to think more deeply about and apply this knowledge to mathematical concepts and problems. Through work in class, homework and regular practise, our children develop their fluency skills.
Reception, Y1, Y2, Y4 and Y5 take part in daily Mastering Number sessions. Mastering Number in Early Years and Key Stage 1 builds on the children’s mathematical knowledge to develop further confidence in calculations and flexibility of number. In Years 4 and 5, the programme develops and extends the children’s multiplicative understanding and fluency of multiplication and related division facts. Our children develop automaticity in multiplication and division facts through regular practise which they will then be able to apply to more complex mathematical procedures and problems.
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| Year 1 | Number bonds to 10 and 20. Count to and across 100 forwards and backwards beginning with 0 or 1 or any given number. Count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s starting from 0 and extending to starting from different multiples. |
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| Year 2 | Number bonds to 20 x2, x5, x10 with fast recall Counting in multiples of 3. |
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| Year 3 | x2, x5, x10, x3, x4, x8 with fast recall and related division facts | |||
| Year 4/5/6 | Fast recall of all times tables up to 12 x 12 including related division facts. | |||
Maths in Early Years
Maths is everywhere within our Early Years provision. Maths areas and other areas involving maths including outside are enticing and interesting almost like a ‘magical emporium of maths activities’. Approaches for teaching for Mastery including stem sentences and vocabulary are evident in our delivery of maths right through Early Years to upper Key Stage 2. The children are taught discrete maths lessons and in Reception, daily Mastering Number sessions are delivered too.
Below, you will find our Maths Intent Statement and Curriculum Overview.