Maths

Intent

At Brentnall Community Primary School, our intent is to allow the children to develop their mathematical skills through the journey of maths mastery. We intend to follow the national curriculum aims by developing fluency and number sense as well as learning reasoning and problem solving skills.

We intend for all children to enjoy maths and to experience success in the subject through a curriculum that is creative and engaging and allows them to explore maths in depth using mathematical vocabulary to explain and to justify. Children are exposed to procedural and conceptual variation in question types as well as being encouraged to make connections across mathematical topics to allow for coherence in the subject.

To achieve our intent, we provide a rich, balanced and progressive curriculum which caters to the needs of all pupils and allows the children to explore the mathematical skill at a depth that is most appropriate for them. We ensure our learners all go on the same mathematical journey and take small steps in order to achieve the expected outcome.

We encourage children to respect and recognise the importance of Maths in the wider world and give each child a chance to believe in themselves as mathematicians. The children learn to develop their mathematical vocabulary when developing reasoning skills and justifying their responses whilst recognising that mathematics underpins much of our daily lives.