Mathematics
Our current federated mathematics team, has worked hard to ensure that staff use an agreed approach to 'maths methods' and use creative and practical ways to deliver mathematics lessons. The use of a ‘Mastery’ approach where all children are expected to articulate and explain their thinking runs through the whole federation. The introduction of ‘Power Maths’ across the whole school (Y1-Y6) has developed the ‘Mastery’ approach further. The school has embraced ‘Numicon' and other practical resources to provide a practical and visual understanding of early number. The use of practical resources throughout the whole school and using the NCTEM website have developed approaches to practical maths across the school.
Foundation Stage (Nursery and reception)
Early Years have a range of fun mathematics activities linked well to topic work. Through a balance of teacher-led and child-led learning, children experience a range of opportunities to learn about and play with numbers , ensuring that all children are on track to meet their Early Learning Goal' for number. Using the school’s strategies for transition, along with the recent publication ‘Bold Beginnings’ a more formal structure is adopted in the second half of the summer term to support pupils in their ‘school readiness’ and move to year 1.
Key Stages 1 (infants) and 2 (juniors)
Our maths leader is also an NCETM accredited lead practitioner has worked to develop our approach to a ‘mastery’ style of lesson. Within the maths structure, pupils have the opportunity to draw upon prior learning to make links from and to the new learning; use the rich language of mathematics along with different representations of the concepts being taught; discrete teaching of the mini-steps toward mastery and deepening reasoning opportunities within every lesson. Opportunities to explain, reason, justify, prove are common elements across key-stages one and two. Pupils use, bar- model, dienes, part-part whole, Numicon all support mastery of the subject. Times-tables are supported through the teaching of arrays before standard recall to allow joined up processing of known facts. Abbey subscribes to ‘Times Table Rockstars’ an on-line games-based system to promote learning at home with healthy, sensible (anonymous) competition. Alongside this is the powerful package ‘Conquer Maths’ that enables home-school learning.
Fluency sessions/Same Day Catch up
At Abbey we have fluency sessions across our schools whereby children practise recalling and using their number bonds and multiplication facts. Using a range of resources (Number Fun etc) children will play games and take part in engaging activities to practise key skills and concepts. Children have opportunity to ensure they have understood the mathematical concepts with further small group work during same day catch up.
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