IMPLEMENTATION

 

Our school follows the National Curriculum and the White Rose Maths program from EYFS into Key Stage 1, and continues into Key Stage 2.  Each year group has a programme of study that outlines how long each area should be taught for.

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In Nursery Maths is planned from development matters and 2 formal teaching sessions are taught each week followed by a directed activity. Continuous provision activities reinforcing the week's teaching are planned for both indoors and outdoors. The children have access to number and shape linked activities as well as planned Maths activities both indoors and outdoors. Mathematical vocabulary is constantly reinforced and the use of counting songs and rhymes help to reinforce numbers and shape. 

 

In Reception Maths is formally taught 5 days a week following Development Matters and the White Rose Maths Program. Maths teaching is planned for all children to access. This involves a short input by the teacher and children completing a mathematical task. Different independent activities are planned from the lesson and implemented into the Continuous Provision both indoors and outdoors which each child accesses during the week.

 

Year 1 follow the National Curriculum and the White Rose Maths program. They use the EYFS format of teaching Maths until the second half term of Autumn. This enables a smooth transition from EYFS into Year 1, and gradually moves from a Continuous Provision approach to a semi-formal, then more formal approach used by Year 2 and above by the Spring Term.

 

At the end of each session teachers will put a smiley face on children’s work using the traffic light system, red – the child has not understood, amber – beginning to understand and green the child has understood. An I for independent or S for support is put on the child’s work with a relevant comment relating to the objective. Purple pen is also used to show corrections and progress as soon as the child has finished their work and verbal feedback given so it is immediate and relevant.

 

From Year 2 and above Maths is timetabled each day and lasts for 1 hour each day.  Lessons are planned for so that children of all ability groups are accounted for. Learning intentions and steps to success are shared with the children and all link to the national curriculum objectives. All teachers carefully plan their lessons to include a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to the subject.   Each child evaluates their work at the end of the session using the traffic light system. Their books go in boxes that match the colour they have put in their book. The teacher will mark the books then plan the next Maths lesson from their findings. In the afternoon Learning mentors in Year 2 – Year 6 will do an extra maths session with a group of selected children to help bridge learning gaps that have emerged in their maths learning. As part of the children’s self-evaluating process, they begin most of their lessons recapping on their last lesson with a review, this could be a question or sum. This is done in purple pen so you can see corrections and progress made. The lesson ends with a reflect which allows pupils to consolidate their learning from the lesson. 

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In EYFS children are baselined using Development Matters in both Nursery and Reception and given a teacher judgement. At the end of Reception a judgement based on the Early Learning Goals is given and submitted to the LEA. Summative assessments are given each half term and based on tests (All Year 2 and Year 6 children take compulsory SATs) Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4 and 5 use Non Statutory assessments).

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