Maths

Intent:
At Woodchurch Road Academy, our intent is to provide all children with a deep understanding of mathematics, allowing them to develop critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a lifelong appreciation for the subject. We aim to create confident mathematicians who can apply their skills in real-world contexts. By following the White Rose Maths scheme, we ensure that learning is carefully sequenced, promotes fluency, and fosters a growth mindset. Our goal is for every pupil to meet the expected standard in mathematics, while also inspiring those who can achieve greater depth in their understanding.

Implementation:
We implement our intent through the White Rose Maths scheme, which follows a mastery approach to teaching mathematics. Our curriculum is designed to be cumulative, with each lesson building on the previous ones to deepen understanding over time. 

1. Daily Maths Lessons: Teachers deliver daily maths lessons that incorporate fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving, ensuring a balance between conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.
2. Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) Approach: We use manipulatives and visual representations to help students grasp abstract mathematical concepts. This approach ensures that all learners can access the curriculum, regardless of their starting point.
3. Differentiation: Lessons are adapted to meet the needs of all pupils, with appropriate scaffolding and challenge. Pupils who grasp concepts quickly are given rich and sophisticated problems, while those who need more time to consolidate their understanding receive targeted support.
4. White Rose Assessments: Regular formative and summative assessments, aligned with White Rose Maths, allow us to track progress and identify areas for intervention.
5. Mathematical Language: Emphasis is placed on the correct use of mathematical language to develop communication and reasoning skills.
6. Cross-Curricular Links: Maths is integrated into other subjects where appropriate, helping pupils to see its relevance in different contexts.

Impact:
The impact of our approach is seen in the confident, resilient, and capable mathematicians that emerge from Woodchurch Road Academy. By the end of each key stage, our pupils will have:

1. Strong Mathematical Foundations: Pupils leave each year group with a deep, coherent understanding of mathematics, enabling them to progress confidently to the next stage of their education.
2. Achievement: Pupils meet or exceed national expectations in mathematics, as evidenced by internal assessments and national test results.
3. Problem-Solving Skills: Pupils can apply their mathematical knowledge in a variety of contexts, demonstrating their ability to tackle unfamiliar problems with creativity and persistence.
4. Positive Attitude:Pupils enjoy mathematics, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and are eager to continue their mathematical journey in secondary school and beyond.

Information about White Rose Maths:

White Rose Maths is a highly respected teaching approach that is designed to help every child master maths. The scheme breaks down concepts into small, manageable steps to ensure deep and sustainable learning. It follows the mastery approach, which emphasizes problem-solving and fluency. The White Rose Maths curriculum is aligned with the National Curriculum and provides teachers with comprehensive lesson plans, resources, and assessments.

At Woodchurch Road Academy, we value the structured yet flexible framework that White Rose Maths offers. It supports our commitment to delivering high-quality mathematics education by ensuring consistency and progression across all year groups. The program also allows for flexibility, enabling teachers to tailor lessons to the needs of their pupils while maintaining high expectations for all.

Through White Rose Maths, we are not only teaching pupils how to calculate but also why those calculations work, fostering a deep and enduring understanding of mathematics.

Maths lessons are engaging and well-resourced with the pupils acknowledging that the journey to finding an answer is the most important factor. Children demonstrate a quick recall of facts and procedures. This includes the recollection of the times tables. Children show confidence in believing that they will achieve and are keen to attempt a range of problems and demonstrating flexibility and fluidity to move between different contexts and representations of maths.

Children are developing skills in being articulate and are able to reason verbally, pictorially and in written form. Children are able to make connections between mathematical topics. Formative and summative assessments (NFER tests) are used to inform judgements.

Our Curriculum: EYFS

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