Maths curriculum
At Faber, we use Power Maths resources throughout the school from Reception to Year 6 with our Nursery children use 'Ten Town'.
We use TTRockstars to support the children with their times-tables. Times Tables Rock Stars is a maths programme that takes all the worry out of learning times tables and has a proven track record of boosting children’s fluency and recall in multiplication and division.
Ten Town is an award winning maths resource that helps build strong basic numeracy skills up to 10. In Nursery we use the Ten Town characters and rhymes to teach children number recognition and formation.
Power Maths uses a Maths Mastery approach and creates consistency ensuring each child builds secure foundations before building their mathematical understanding as they progress through the school.
The Power Maths characters grow as they move through each Key Stage, sharing a range of growth-mindset characteristics that our children identify with as they continue their own Maths adventure.
At The Faber Catholic Primary School we want every child to be happy and enthusiastic learners of mathematics, and to be eager to achieve their very best in order to fulfil their God-given talents. We firmly believe that the recipe for success is high quality first-wave teaching in mathematics, which is central to the life of our happy, caring school.
Intent – What we are trying to achieve?
- Our principal aim is that children leave The Faber Catholic Primary School with a wide range of happy and rich memories in Mathematics formed through interesting and exciting experiences that enhance a child’s awareness of their own abilities and strengths as a learner; thus ensuring that children see learning in mathematics as an ongoing process not a one-off event.
- Children will meet the National Curriculum expectations in mathematics, which will be taught by highly- enthusiastic qualified staff who will support children to develop mastery of concepts and inspire enthusiasm and interest in mathematics.
- Children will study a high quality maths curriculum that is both challenging and enjoyable.
- Children will be develop into independent learners with inquisitive minds who have secure mathematical foundations and an interest in self-improvement.
- All children will study mathematics for 6 hours per week in Key Stage 2 and 5 hours in Key Stage 1.
- Opportunities will exist for children of all ages to experience learning beyond the classroom. This will allow them to enrich their knowledge by, for example, undertaking maths investigations outdoors, applying maths skills to other areas of the curriculum and engaging parents in home application of skills.
- Children will develop a deep understanding of the mathematics they are studying. They will increasingly use their prior knowledge to solve problems and develop the sophistication of mathematics. This will be done through teacher input as well as independently.
- Children will be provided with a variety of mathematical opportunities which will enable them to make connections in learning leading to greater depth learning, ensuring they are confident mathematicians who are not afraid to take risks.
- Children will understand how Catholic virtues and British Values relate to mathematics.
- Children will develop a real understanding and appreciation of the world learning from the best that has been developed and said. Galileo himself stated ‘If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.’
- A high quality mathematics education will be taught providing a foundation for understanding the world, developing the ability to reason mathematically and encouraging a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about mathematics.
- Mathematical skills will be applied to other subjects including science, technology and engineering.