Earlham Primary School

• We believe that maths is not just a subject, it is a life skill;

• Maths is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment;

• Our high-quality maths education provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject;

• Our aim is that children are numerically fluent, and  able to problem solve and reason mathematically; 

• We follow the national curriculum. Learning is sequenced to build on the knowledge acquired in previous years;

• We follow the White Rose Maths schemes of learning, including their end of unit assessments;

• Our daily maths lesson is divided into two sessions. The first session involves the teacher teaching the concept to all the children followed by an independent task and self-assessment carried out by the pupils. The second session follows up on the first one involving differentiated activities (Reteach, Practice and Mastery). This prompt assessment and the opportunity to act upon the feedback supports rapid progress; 

• We conduct weekly times table tests to support fluency;

• We know that maths matters in everyday life, for household budgeting and economics, employment and general financial literacy, and pupils are given real world challenges to manage a budget during our whole school Money Money Money project.

Covid adaptations to our maths curriculum: We regularly sanitise the maths manipulatives and resources we use in class.