Kingsway
Primary School
Maths
Intent
At Kingsway Primary, we have adopted a mastery approach in order to deliver the three aims of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Underpinning this pedagogy is a belief that all children can achieve in maths. We believe in promoting sustained and deepening understanding by employing a variety of mastery strategies, with teaching for conceptual understanding at the heart of everything we do. Our approach aims to provide all children with full access to the curriculum, enabling them to develop independence, confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ in mathematics in order to be independent mathematicians who are well equipped to apply their learning to the wider world.
Aims
We aim to develop lively, enquiring minds encouraging pupils to become self-motivated, confident and capable in order to solve problems that will become an integral part of their future. Every child should be able to progress and excel in maths – ‘Every Child, Every Chance, Every Day’.
The National Curriculum 2014 for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
- become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems
- reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
All children shall benefit – Every Child, Every Chance, Every Day.
“I like it when we talk to our friends in maths as it helps me practise my maths words.” Charlie – Year 1
“I like using lots of different methods to help me calculate in maths.” Elisa – Year 4
“I love using angle measures to help me investigate angles. I can now identify obtuse, right-angles, reflex and acute angles.” Oliver – Year 4
“I really like maths at Kingsway because we get to investigate new ideas. It gets me thinking a lot.” Ruby – Year 6
“I like the challenging lessons in maths, especially times tables.” Marcel – Year 6
“I love the skeletal geo sets to create new 3D shapes. It helps me to visualise and draw them on paper.” Sophie – Year 6
“Using polydron has helped me learn all about nets and their properties.” Dawid – Year 6
Implementation
Maths Vocabulary
Click on the year group specific lists. There you are able to view a list of vocabulary that pupils are Kingsway are expected to use and understand on a daily basis within their group.
MathsBeat
The following documents outline the Maths Long-Term Plans for each year group:
- Reception Numeracy Long-term Plan
- Year 1 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
- Year 2 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
- Year 3 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
- Year 4 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
- Year 5 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
- Year 6 Numeracy Long-Term Plan
At Kingsway each year group has a set of non-negotiables which the children use and regularly self-assess themselves against. These are the skills which we expect all the children to achieve in maths and which should be consistently evident in their work. Click on the following links to view these:
As well as non-negotiables, you can also download the "I Can....." target sheets for each year group:
Please click on the following documents to see "How we do maths at Kingsway". These documents explain how each of the four maths functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) are taught in each year group. Examples are also given to show how these different methods work.
Click on the following link to access Kingsway's Maths Policy.
Timetables Rockstars and Mathletics are two online learning portals that may be used both in class and at home.
