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. Each Friday, the maths lessons are known as 'Fluency Friday' and these lessons place an emphasis on revisiting the vital sticky knowledge in each year group. The aim of these weekly lessons is to develop children's ability to quickly and accurately solve age-appropriate maths problems and to recall math facts and concepts without thinking which will in turn support children's progress in maths from their starting points to when they leave East Ward at the end of Key Stage Two. To support the teaching of reasoning and problem solving, we use bar models. 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. We place a high focus on children gaining a secure understanding of place value and calculation.