Maths
The 2014 Maths National Curriculum is followed from Years 1-6 and the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum is followed in Nursery and Reception. Big Maths and Little Big Maths supplement these curriculums and form part of the daily Maths session with a focus on learning, recalling and applying number facts with increasing speed. A number of strategies, for example the use of Times Table Rock Stars and Speed Grids, are used to support children’s recall of times table facts in order to prepare them for the Multiplication Tables Check. At the heart of our Maths curriculum is the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract) approach, where all children experience maths practically and pictorially before applying knowledge and skills to more abstract concepts. Aspects of the Singapore Maths approach (Bar Modeling) are used to support this. As a school, we focus on deepening learning through applying skills and knowledge to a variety of application and reasoning tasks.