At Stoke Prior First School, all children experience a progressive, structured mathematics lesson every day. Throughout each lesson, children take part in mental, oral and practical learning, whilst reasoning about their thinking and solving problems to deepen their understanding. We aim for all of our children to enjoy maths and to give them the opportunities to become numerate, confident and competent learners, who can use and apply their mathematical skills and knowledge in a broad range of scenarios and make connections across their mathematical ideas.

Maths activities are planned to promote and extend knowledge of number, geometry, measures and statistics. Lesson sequences follow the award-winning ‘White Rose Maths’ scheme of work, supplemented with additional computer software and practical games. Children at Stoke Prior find mathematics exciting and thoroughly enjoy practical, ‘hands-on’, lessons.

Practitioners continue to embed a ‘mastery’ approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics, based on the ‘Five Big Ideas’:

Coherence – A coherent learning progression throughout the curriculum, providing a deep and connected understanding of maths that they can apply in a range of contexts.

Representation and Structure – Careful selection of how mathematics is presented to children in different ways, such as through diagrams, images and practical apparatus, e.g. counters, cubes and Numicon etc.

Fluency – Efficient and accurate recall of key number facts, such as number bonds and times tables, and being able to use them to solve problems.

Mathematical Thinking – Looking for patterns and making mathematical connections through reasoning and conjecture.

Variation – Drawing close attention to a mathematical concept by varying and changing parts of questions.

Further information about our maths curriculum can be found below, in documents that support teaching and learning, including our ‘Calculation Policy’, which gives details and examples for parents of the calculations we use to teach the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

There are also termly overviews, showing what is taught each term, in each year group from Reception to Year 4.