Landywood Primary School

Maths

Subject Lead - Miss Roobottom

Here at Landywood we strive to help our pupils grow into problem solvers who rise to any challenge they are faced with. We promote a love of Maths through hands on experiences where Maths is given a real life context. All children are immersed into a broad and balanced Maths curriculum where they are able to master each aspect through small steps. As well as Maths being taught explicitly through direct lessons, it is also underpinned through a broad range of foundation subjects. We provide children with opportunities to demonstrate their skills in Foundation subjects such as Science, Design and Technology, Computing and Geography to give their learning meaning and provide a context.

Mastery of Maths ensures pupils have the opportunity for academic success in the future. Obstacles they may face along the way are overcome through problem solving and solution building skills they have developed as young Mathematicians. Right from Early Years we provide our pupils with a strong basis for reasoning, estimation and logical thinking which they carry with them into later life. We instill the love of challenge into the children here at Landywood by developing a resilient, can-do attitude. Challenge is evident right from Early Years where we have ‘Challenge Tables’- this is developed through KS1 and KS2 through problem solving and reasoning. As well as this we have rolled out the Early Years model of the use of concrete apparatus throughout KS1 and KS2 where we have maths boxes available on each table for all children to access and build upon to create pictorial and eventually abstract based learning.

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