MATHEMATICS  

INTENT 
​At The Promise School, our mathematics curriculum aims to create learning opportunities that are accessible and motivating to all our pupils. We intend to maximise the development of all children’s mathematical ability and their academic achievement.  
 

We want our pupils to understand that maths is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for all further education and all forms of employment. Our maths curriculum does not limit children to the beliefs of their capabilities; it invites challenge and helps them to understand how maths can create life opportunities.  
 

We intend for our pupils to have the ability to reason mathematically, to explain their mathematical understanding using images, manipulatives and precise mathematical language confidently and to apply their knowledge to the wider curriculum and the world.   
 
AIMS 
The national curriculum for Maths 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 develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.  

• 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 breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions. 

We use the White Rose Maths scheme and resources across years 1-6. 

Implementation  
At The Promise School, we will follow the White Rose Maths programme to ensure coverage and progression across year groups. 

 
We will deliver daily lessons that are creative, engaging and applicable to life and drive children to make independently rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning, understanding of mathematical language and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems.   

 
The use of concrete resources and pictorial representations, to develop understanding, are implemented throughout the school. Children are actively encouraged to explore their mathematical ideas and to explain what they have learnt from them.   

 
Impact  
At The Promise School, we want every child to develop a sense of enjoyment from maths and to understand its importance in everyday life.   
 

We want our children to grow in confidence, be able to explain their mathematical understanding, using images and precise mathematical language and to solve increasingly complex problems.   
 

We hope to nurture a sense of appreciation, enjoyment and curiosity for the subject that or pupils will carry with them throughout life.