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Kidgate Primary Academy

‘Growing Kind Hearts and Curious Minds’

‘Growing Kind Hearts and Curious Minds’

Maths

INTENT - With Maths, every problem has a solution.

 

INTENT STATEMENT

At Kidgate Primary Academy, we intend for children to become life-long learners, where they can use their skills to solve everyday maths problems now and in the future. We intend to provide children with a foundation for understanding number, reasoning and problem solving with resilience, and a belief that anyone can be a mathematician.

 

IMPLEMENTATION

Since October 2020, Kidgate Primary Academy have implemented the DfE recommended Power Maths scheme. ‘Power Maths is a UK curriculum mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and nurture confidence in maths’ (Pearson, 2020). Power Maths follows the concrete, pictorial, abstract (CPA approach). Further fluency and challenge is supported, if needed, using White Rose resources. Interleaving and retrieval tasks are provided by teachers to ensure key knowledge is embedded and consolidated. All staff are supported by research based teaching strategies, such as EEF and Walkthrus. This ensures high quality teaching raises outcomes and attainment. Targeted interventions are delivered effectively, ensuring that no child is left behind and closing gaps between all groups of children. Children are given opportunities to explain their answers, which allows the children to run through the process they used to solve a calculation, supporting metacognition. ‘Metacognition and self-regulation approaches to teaching support pupils to think about their own learning more explicitly, often by teaching them specific strategies for planning, monitoring and evaluating their learning’ (EEF, 2022).

 

IMPACT

  • Children are engaged and enthusiastic mathematicians
  • Children will be able to demonstrate mastery skills and use mathematical language to explain their ideas.
  • Children have a sense of the size of a number and where it fits into the number system.
  • Children have a strong knowledge of number facts, such as number bonds and multiplication tables to aid fluency.
  • Children are able to explain (reason mathematically) and demonstrate a range of formal methods used to solve mathematical problems.
  • The ‘testing’ of concepts and procedures are in a low-stakes manner, providing essential retrieval practice experience.
  • Termly summative assessments are completed; the outcomes of this are used by the teacher (and maths subject leaders) to ensure that any identified gaps in understanding can be addressed.

Maths Long Term Plan

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