East Ward Community Primary School

Our Maths curriculum provides coverage of the National Curriculum objectives in a cyclical approach to embed each aspect and deepen understanding. This approach promotes upside down and inside out mathematics for each year group. We place an emphasis on revisiting the vital sticky knowledge for each year group to embed fluency skills. To support the teaching of reasoning and problem solving, we have recently had a whole school shift towards the bar model. We recognise the importance of revisiting to ensure learning is embedded into long-term memory, particularly for the children we teach.

Across school, we use an 'I do, we do, you do' lesson model which follows Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction, including daily, weekly and monthly reviews in the form of a 'Random Recap', introducing material in small steps, modelling and scaffolding learning and providing pupils with independent practice. Teachers provide children with 1,2,3 tasks to ensure all children are challenged appropriately. In Key Stage Two, many of our lessons use the online platform, LbQ (Learning by Questions) which also supports the model of tasks 1,2,3. In addition to LbQ, teachers plan using White Rose Maths resources and those from Third Space Learning.

All teachers follow a Long-Term Plan for their year group. This is organised in an interleaved structure, with pupils dipping in and out of topic areas throughout the year until all content is taught by the end of the Summer Term. This organisation promotes pupils with making connections between topics and supports knowledge retention as topics are continuously revisited.