To build in our pupils, a long-term motivation towards learning and doing maths.  Pupils in Croyland demonstrate a can-do attitude and enjoy mathematical challenge.

Maths at Croyland

Mathematics is a creative and highly inter-connected discipline that has been developed over centuries, providing the solution to some of history’s most intriguing problems. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.

The national curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language

• can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including working systematically, pattern spotting, making predictions, generating rules and showing their thinking.

At Croyland Primary School we follow the White Rose Maths programme, teaching across three terms in blocks to deepen understanding. Teachers draw on a range of resources we have available to create the best possible learning environment for our pupils, moving the children from the stages of concrete to pictorial and lastly to abstract. Consolidation weeks are also built into each term to revisit outcomes that have been identified as needing further development.

Fluency, reasoning and problem-solving form the basis of our maths provision. Pupils practice their fluency through the lens of 'Be a Learner', they reason and demonstrate their understanding through the lens of 'Be a Teacher', while problem solving and deepening their learning through the final lens of 'Be an Investigator'.

Mathematics lessons are delivered in Key Stage 1 and 2, 4 times per week following the White Rose schemes of learning. There is also an additional hour encompassing mental maths and written method practice. Mental maths is delivered through termly Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRF) termly objectives.

Home learning of mathematics is supported through the provision of Numbots for KS1, TT Rockstars for lower KS2 and Doodle Maths for upper KS2.