Mathematics
Rationale
At St. Paschal Baylon, we believe that every child can master an understanding and love of maths with the right kind of teaching and support. Mathematics teaches children how to make sense of the world around them through developing their ability to calculate fluently, reason and solve problems as well as enabling them to understand relationships and patterns in both number and space in the world around them. We want to build our pupils’ cultural capital so that by the time they leave us in Year 6, they are ready for the next stage of their future education, employment and everyday life. Through our curriculum, we instil a mathematical respect and understanding in all our pupils so they are deeply aware of the essential role of maths to everyday life, particularly financial literacy, as well as its critical relationship with science, technology and engineering.
Furthermore, the design of our maths curriculum allows pupils to develop and embed meta-cognition, problem solving and co-operative learning skills, all of which are essential for sustainable, successful future learning across all subjects. Our curriculum provides a rich variety of mathematical opportunities to explore, take risks and take the lead in exploring mathematical concepts thus ensuring all our children develop into confident, inquisitive mathematicians who are not afraid to take risks and who have secure mathematical foundations with an interest in self-improvement. Every classroom provides a safe environment in which mathematical thinking is valued and encouraged so that pupils can follow a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
Our curriculum directly supports the following intent of the National Curriculum, in particular the belief that all pupils deserve the same high-quality, ambitious curriculum:
- All pupils become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
- All pupils reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- All pupils 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.
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Mathematics Policy
Calculations Policy
Five a day Policy
Maths No Problem Y1 – Y6 Overview
Maths No Problem Spiral Approach
At St Paschal Baylon we follow the Maths No Problem plans for the planning and teaching of Mathematics.
The plans are divided into year groups; which are in half termly sections. All Staff use the plans to write their weekly short term plans which are differentiated for all learners. This ensures all objectives are covered across the academic year and there is continuity and progression in all aspects of Mathematics. Objectives are broken down into steps that are suitable for the requirements of each class.
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Early Years
EYFS overview
EYFS Statutory Framework
Year One
Y1 overview
Year Two
Y2 overview
Year Three
Y3 overview
Year Four
Y4 overview
Year Five
Y5 overview
Year Six
Y6 overview
