Intent, Implementation and Impact

Intent 

At Frenchwood Community Primary School we aim to inspire all children to reach their full academic potential. In Maths, this means ensuring a curriculum that is fully inclusive and: 

• promotes enjoyment and enthusiasm for learning through practical activity, cross curricular learning, exploration and discussion; 

• develops competence and confidence in mathematical knowledge, concepts, skills and vocabulary in line with the National Curriculum Programmes of Study; 

• develops the ability to think mathematically, solve problems through decision making, to reason, to think logically and to work systematically and accurately; 

• develops communication skills and the ability to work independently and in co-operation with others; 

• explores features of shape and space, and develop measuring skills in a range of contexts; 

• understands the importance of mathematics in everyday life and promote mathematical thinking as a life skill. 

Implementation 

Throughout school, we use Red Rose Maths Mastery as our core scheme. This ‘mastery’ curriculum rejects the idea that a large proportion of people ‘just can’t do maths’ (NCETM 2016) and instead focuses on the idea that all pupils can achieve depth in their learning which can be accomplished by using key principles including: 

• representation and structure (effective pedagogies for modelling, concrete-pictorial-abstract approaches, effective use of manipulatives and transition between them) 

• coherence (curriculum design, progression of objectives, sequencing learning, small steps, contextualising learning between different areas of mathematics) 

• mathematical thinking (effective questioning, identifying patterns and relationships, deep understanding through reasoning and problem solving, supporting children to achieve 

• deeper learning where appropriate) 

• variation (progression through representations using conceptual variation, progression through questioning using procedural variation) 

• fluency (efficiency, accuracy, flexibility, developing unconscious competence) 

These elements of effective mathematics teaching are supported in both the National Curriculum and the Ofsted Inspection Framework. 

The scheme provides teachers with comprehensive planning materials for each lesson including teaching resources, detailed planning guidance and children’s task sheets, including deeper learning tasks to challenge more able mathematicians. 

Impact 

The expected impact of following our Red Rose Maths scheme of work is that children will:   

• help children develop a growth mindset and a deep understanding of mathematical concepts. 

• help children succeed in math by using a variety of teaching strategies and assessment methods. 

• Help children to develop fluency by learning key number facts and to practice them regularly. 

• An ability to solve problem, to reason, to think logically and to work systematically and accurately. 

• Initiative and an ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others. 

• An ability to communicate mathematics and mathematically. 

• An ability to use and apply mathematics across the curriculum and in real life. 

• An understanding of mathematics through a process of enquiry and experiment