Maths
Vision Statement
At Hornsea Burton & Skipsea Federation, our maths curriculum is designed to provide children with the opportunity to expand upon and develop their mental maths skills, and prepare them for the wide variety of problem-solving opportunities that they will encounter in their lives.
Our Whole-School Maths Vision is:
To foster positive attitudes, fascination and excitement of discovery through the teaching and learning of mathematical concepts.
To develop a positive attitude in our children, especially when problem solving and pattern sniffing.
To broaden children’s knowledge and understanding of how mathematics is used in the wider world by making rich and varied real life connections.
To enable our pupils to confidently reason about their mathematics, using a suitable range of mathematical language, recognising its importance for communication and deep thinking.
To use a wide range of models, visual manipulatives and practical resources to develop a deep conceptual understanding alongside procedural fluency.
To implement the current legal requirements of the Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the National Curriculum.
As a school, we have sequenced our curriculum to build children's depth of understanding when teaching each mathematical skill. At the beginning of a Maths lesson, our children complete a pre-assessment. This is to ensure prior knowledge is consistently drawn upon. Our curriculum supports children with abstract mathematical concepts and concrete representations that they can manipulate and draw up. In addition to this, teachers use White Rose Maths Hub scheme designed in small steps to ensure that we have both breadth and depth across our maths curriculum.
Through our maths vision, we are passionate and fully committed to developing a balance between the children’s procedural fluency and a conceptual understanding.
Intent Statement
At Hornsea Burton and Skipsea Primary Schools, we believe that Mathematics is important as it is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology, and engineering, and necessary for most forms of employment. A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.
Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which children need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. The programmes of study are, by necessity, organised into apparently distinct domains, but children should make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning, and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. They should also apply their mathematical knowledge to other subjects. The expectation is that most children will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of children’s understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Children who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems to develop a deeper understanding rather than acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding, including through additional practice, before moving on.
Our mathematical curriculum aims to ensure that all children:
Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that children develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and developing and 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
