Maths
Intent
At Summercroft Primary School, we believe that maths plays a fundamental role in our everyday lives and strive for our children to share our appreciation and passion for the subject. We aim for all children to experience an inspiring, number-rich and challenging maths environment through a maths curriculum that meets the needs of all learners. We want all children to develop a positive ‘can do’ approach to maths and support them to become confident and able mathematicians.
Our intention is for every child to leave Summercroft as able and independent mathematicians with the confidence and skills required to calculate fluently, reason confidently and apply learnt skills effectively to solve a range of problems. They will be thoroughly prepared in all aspects of mathematics and fully equipped for the next step in their educational journey.
Implementation
Our maths curriculum at Summercroft Primary School is delivered across the school with the guidance of the White Rose Maths scheme. The scheme supports teachers to deliver well-structured and engaging mathematical lessons that enable our children to learn, revisit and progressively develop their skills in maths at an age-appropriate level.
The EYFS team develop our children’s early number sense through daily activities that are practical, engaging and contextualised and accessed alongside adults and independently. This approach encourages an early love of maths and provides our children with the foundational skills needed to solve mathematical problems.
In key stages one and two, maths lessons are planned to follow the small-step mastery approach to acquiring maths skills, with number at the heart of our approach. Teachers plan and deliver lessons which provide sufficient time to develop children’s fluency of number, before applying this knowledge to effectively reason mathematically and solve sophisticated problems. In addition to these sessions, all classes deliver daily maths fluency sessions that provide varied and frequent practice of calculation and previously taught concepts. This ‘little and often’ approach consolidates learning and supports children in recalling and applying knowledge rapidly.
During all maths sessions, teachers promote and model the effective use of mathematical language, regularly encouraging the children to work collaboratively and to justify, reflect upon and reason their mathematical thinking.
Year Group Coverage Overview
Curriculum Map
Addition and Subtraction Calculation Policy
Multiplication and Division Calculation Policy
Pupil Voice
‘Maths is fun. We get to learn lots of different things.’ - Isabella-Mae, Year 1
‘I like maths at Summercroft because the teachers make it fun and exciting.’ – Sai, Year 3.
‘In maths, we can reflect back to our old learning and we keep remembering what we have done.’ – Charlie, Year 4
‘I like the different questions and tasks. I think that is a good thing. Our brains are all different.’ – Joseph, Year 5
‘We can learn from each other. Others may know different methods to us.’ – Yana, Year 6
‘The teachers talk through the maths with us to make sure we understand it more. They explain different methods to help us.’ – Dulcey, Year 6
‘Fluency is the stage where you practice and you can work it out. Apply and reasoning is explaining what they are asking. Challenge is a challenge and you want to complete it!’ – Arda, Year 6
Maths at home
Top Marks
This website contains interactive and fun maths games and resources for a range of maths topics for all ages.
Times Table Rocks Stars / Numbots
Every child in KS1 and KS2 has a login to access this resource. There are interactive games for learning times tables and key number bonds.
White Rose One Minute Maths
This resources has 1 minute interactive games that will build number confidence and fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and subitising.
BBC Bitesize - Maths
This resource contains interactive videos, quizzes and games for all areas of maths.
Times tables - Rolling numbers video
In school, we use the catchy Rolling Numbers songs to help recall times tables in an interactive and fun way. This video contains a recording for each songs from the 2 to 12 times tables. Below is a breakdown of the times in the video for each times table.
Timings:
2s - to 21s
5s - 21s to 43s
10s - 43s to 1m
3s - 1m to 1m 18s
4s - 1m 18s to 1m 39s
8s- 1m 39s to 2m 7s
6s - 2m 7s to 2m 32s
7s - 2m 32s to 2m 59s
9s - 2m 59s to 3m 23s
11s - 3m 23s to 3m 45s
12s - 3m 45s to end
Times tables - MC Grammar videos
MC Grammar has recorded his own catchy educational rap songs for the 2, 4, 6, 7,8 and 11 times table. The below links will direct you to his times tables playlist on Youtube.