We use a mastery approach to the teaching of Maths at Chapel St Leonards Primary School.
We follow the National Curriculum for Maths and fully believe that, “The expectation is that the majority of pupils will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of pupils’ understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems before any acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding, including through additional practice, before moving on.” (Mathematics programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 National curriculum in England 2013).
Using a ‘mastery approach’ means acquiring a deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding of the subject. At any one point in a pupil’s journey through school, achieving mastery is taken to mean acquiring a solid enough understanding of the maths that’s been taught to enable him/her move on to more advanced material. Below are ‘The 5 Big Ideas’ for mastery maths teaching.
At Chapel St Leonards Primary School we use Power Maths (Pearson) and White Rose Maths to support our mastery approach to teaching maths. Through these schemes of work, we are able to provide a range of opportunities for each of The 5 Big Ideas, supporting children in their mathematical understanding. These schemes are adapted carefully to ensure the needs of learners are met. When smaller jumps between objectives are needed, we use NCETM spine points to break learning down in to smaller steps and provide further practice.
In order to develop fluency skills further, we partake in the NCETM’s Mastering Number programme in EYFS, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4 and Year 5. In EYFS and Key Stage 1, the programme focuses on understanding number and subitising. In Key Stage 2, this focus is on using sentence stems to support problem solving and exploring multiplication and division. In addition to this, children from Year 2 upwards have access to Times Tables Rockstars, which supports learning of times tables facts to automaticity (learning by heart). All children in Year 2 upwards are given a log in code so that they can access Times Tables Rockstars at home.
Maths Overviews by Year Group
| EYFS Overview |
| Year 1 Overview |
| Year 2 Overview |
| Year 3 Overview |
| Mixed Year 3 and 4 Overview |
| Year 4 Overview |
| Year 5 Overview |
| Year 6 Overview |
Power Maths Documents
Calculation Methods
Here you can see our whole school policy on calculation, as well as the progression of each individual method:
| CSL Whole School Calculation Methods |
| CSL Addition Methods |
| CSL Subtraction Methods |
| CSL Multiplication Methods |
| CSL Divison Methods |
The documents below show the progression of methods in each year group. It may be useful to look at the year group prior to where your child is to see the methods that they are familiar with:
| Year 1 Methods |
| Year 2 Methods |
| Year 3 Methods |
| Year 4 Methods |
| Year 5 Methods |
| Year 6 Methods |
