Maths
At Lightwater Village School we use the teaching for mastery approach in Maths throughout the school. We believe that all pupils should be fluent in the key skills of mathematics and have the opportunity to deepen their understanding through regular practise of this fluency and by providing problem solving and reasoning opportunities for them.
In Key Stage 1 teachers will use the GLF/ NCETM scheme of learning to support their planning of lessons and small step progression for children. Regular opportunities for children to consolidate their prior learning will be given, to ensure that key skills are embedded.
Curriculum Intention
At Lightwater Village Infants our Maths curriculum; using the GLF/NCETM spines; we plan and teach lessons through a maths mastery approach to allow for children to deepen their mathematical understanding by being fluent in the key skills in Maths. They will be confident and have quick recall within factual fluency. Children will be able to reason mathematically and solve problems by applying their mathematics. All learners will be able to access the curriculum and children will be confident mathematical thinkers by the time they leave Key Staqe One.
Curriculum Implementation
In EYFS, teachers will use small step progression to teach the foundations of Maths and focus on the 6 areas of early mathematics learning. Children will have discrete Maths inputs throughout the week; sessions to enhance their factual fluency and additional maths opportunities through enhanced provision to build their mathematical skills.
In Key Stage One, teachers will use the NCETM/GLF teaching spines and Maths overviews to plan their lessons to ensure that children have coherently sequenced lessons. Teachers can access the teacher guides to support their own subject knowledge and ensure that potential misconceptions can be planned for and clear teaching points will be accessible for all. Staff use the calculation policy to support representations used in each year group and resources appropriate for each stage of learning.
To develop factual fluency within the school, all year groups have access to NCETM Mastering Number and children have 4x weekly sessions to build on their recall and key fact skills.
Lightwater Village School is currently part of a Maths Mastery Hub teaching development group to provide continued professional development about teaching for mastery approaches within the Maths curriculum. This is then fed through to other teachers following working group sessions to ensure all staff have the opportunity to learn about the key fundamentals of Math mastery. Other CPD opportunities to develop subject knowledge include professional maths discussions with other schools using the teaching spines and looking at collaborative planning opportunities. There are trust wide Maths hub meetings once a term and we have support from a maths consultant within the trust as well.
Curriculum Impact
In order to measure the impact that the Maths curriculum at our school has to support pupils to know more, remember more and do more the following methods are used:
• Termly assessments
• Opportunities planned for children to articulate key concepts verbally and written
• Ready to progress assessments are used to plan opportunities to determine if children are ready to move on to a new concept or to identify gaps.
• Lesson reflections on planning and feedback opportunities in the lesson.
• Assessment grids
• Pupil voice
• Book Looks
• Learning Walks
• Data Analysis
Maths Lead - Mrs C Humphries
At Lightwater Village School we follow a teaching for mastery approach in Maths. We believe that all pupils should be fluent in the key skills of mathematics and the opportunity to deepen their understanding through regular practise of this fluency and by providing problem solving and reasoning opportunities for them. In Key Stage 1 teachers will use the GLF/ NCETM scheme of learning to support their planning of lessons and small step progression for children. Regular opportunities for children to consolidate their prior learning will be given, to ensure that key skills are embedded.
Children are taught through a mixture of concrete, pictorial and abstract resources to fully embed concepts. Concrete and pictorial representations of mathematics are chosen carefully to help build procedural and conceptual knowledge together. Key concepts; representations and STEM sentences will be recorded on Maths Working Walls in each classroom to provide clear reference points for children to refer back to. Independent exercises are structured with great care to build deep conceptual knowledge alongside developing procedural fluency. Our one hour daily lessons have a mix of whole-class teaching and practice, independent and group work. During these lessons we encourage children to ask and answer mathematical questions. These lessons are also alongside additional 15 minute factual fluency practice sessions, which allow children to embed key mathematical facts.
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KS 1 Year 2 Maths Curriculum Overview
