Curriculum Intent:

At Oakdale Junior School, we recognise the importance of mathematics throughout each pupil’s everyday and future life. It enables children to understand relationships and patterns in both number and space in the world around them. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. We intend to give each child the self-confidence and resilience to reach their full potential by ensuring that they have the tools to calculate fluently, reason logically, problem solve and think in abstract ways.

Intent – What are we trying to achieve?

• Children become confident, competent and independent mathematicians 

• Build a deep conceptual understanding of maths and its interrelated content so that children can apply their learning in different situations

• Develop children’s ability to articulate, discuss and explain their thinking using appropriate mathematical vocabulary 

• ‘Mistake friendly’ classrooms where children see mistakes as learning tools - there is an emphasis placed upon developing the power to ‘think’ rather than just the ‘do’

• Instil the mind-set in every child and staff member that everyone can do maths and that maths is for everyone…EVERYONE CAN!

• Children develop into resilient and inquisitive learners - skills needed to become life-long mathematicians

Maths scheme of work:

Teaching for mastery:

At White Rose we use a mastery approach to maths teaching. This is a research-driven teaching and learning method that meets the goals of the National Curriculum.

What does it mean in practice? In summary, a mastery approach.

Puts numbers first: Our schemes have number at their heart, because we believe confidence with numbers is the first step to competency in the curriculum as a whole.

Puts depth before breadth: we reinforce knowledge again and again.

Encourages collaboration: children can progress through the schemes as a group, supporting each other as they learn.

Focuses on fluency, reasoning and problem solving: it gives children the skills they need to become competent mathematicians.