The maths curriculum at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School is designed to ensure that pupils have a passion for learning, achieve well and have high aspirations. It strives to ensure that academic success, creativity, problem solving, reliability, responsibility and resilience, as well as well-being, are key elements that support the development of the whole child and promote a positive attitude to learning, supporting pupils for their next stage.

Pupils become fluent in the fundamentals of written and mental calculations and techniques, through varied and frequent practice.

The curriculum for mathematics reflects the importance of spoken language in pupils’ development across the whole curriculum – cognitively, socially and linguistically.

The quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak are key factors in developing their mathematical vocabulary and presenting a mathematical justification, argument or proof.

Pupils are assisted throughout school in making their thinking clear to themselves as well as others, supporting pupils to build secure foundations by using discussion to probe and remedy their own misconceptions. A range of approaches are used such as sentence stems, whole sentence oral rehearsal, vocabulary banks, working walls, worked examples, teacher modelling, edit and improving time, teacher questioning, and generalisations.

Retrieval practice is planned for through a ‘memory jogger’, and daily sessions enable pupils to independently recall knowledge from previously taught material. 

Our pupils understand that mathematics is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. Connections are made and opportunities provided to recall, develop, use and apply knowledge across the wider curriculum and pupils know the purpose and use of mathematics in the real world and their everyday lives.

We give children the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.  Therefore, lessons have a focus on developing reasoning skills with regular opportunity linked to mathematical problems and puzzles and how mathematics has helped to create and shape the world around us.

List of Maths Websites for Parents and Carers

• National Numeracy Parent Toolkit has a wealth of tips and advice for parents. http://www.nnparenttoolkit.org.uk/

• Maths for Mums and Dads explains some of the milestones children make between the ages of 3-and-11 years old. http://www.maths4mumsanddads.co.uk/index.php

• Nrich offers a range of maths games, problems and articles on all areas of maths. http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage

List of Maths Websites for Children

• http://amathsdictionaryforkids.com

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/

• http://www.ilovemathsgames.com/

• http://www.mathsisfun.com/index.htm

• http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

 • http://www.multiplication.com/

• http://www.primarygames.co.uk/

• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/