Mathematics

Purpose of study 

• Maths is taught across Norton St Nicholas to ensure that children have a good understanding of number in their everyday lives and to prepare themselves for their future.
• It supports children in developing their number knowledge and reasoning skills.
• We teach a full curriculum that is essential to our pupils’ everyday life and critical to science, technology and engineering.
• Our high-quality mathematics 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.

Aims

When children leave Norton St Nicholas they will:

• Be successful and fluent mathematicians.
• Have developed an interest in maths.
• Be able to use their sound knowledge of maths to relate to everyday scenarios and experiences.
• Have a deep understanding of number.
• Be able to calculate efficiently and use a range of methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Be able to talk about their mathematical learning, using correct vocabulary and terminology.

What we teach

• At Norton St Nicholas School, we teach the statutory maths curriculum using NCETM Maths Mastery.
• NCETM Maths Mastery follows a clear path of progression with a great emphasis on having a deep understating of number and being able to reason mathematical pathways. 
• The learning sequences ensure that there is a high expectation for learning and applying mathematical knowledge and skills.
• There is also a consistent use of the same representations across year groups help to connect prior learning to new learning.
• In short, our teaching is about ensuring children really understand the subject as a whole and can explain their reasons and justify their mathematical knowledge and choices.

Early Years

Nursery

In Nursery, children are taught a range of underpinning knowledge and skills in short teaching sessions, as well as through their play and discover. This focuses on:

• Using finger numbers up to 5.
• Subitising to 5.
• Identifying more and less.
• Exploring length, mass and capacities.
• Finding and continuing patterns.
• Selecting shapes for different purposes.

Reception

In reception, there is a significant focus on mastering the basic skills of number up to 10 as outlined below. More detail of what this looks like from week-to-week can be found here.

In Reception children also explore:

Pattern (more details here)

• Continuing, copying and making their own AB and ABC patterns.
• Continuing patterns that end mid-unit.
• Making their own ABB and ABBC patterns.

Shape and Space (more details here)

• Developing spatial vocabulary (e.g. in, under, up, down).
• Developing shape awareness through construction.
• Identifying and describing properties of shape.

Measures (more details here)

• Comparing longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, more/less.
• Making estimates.
• Sequence events.

Year 1

 See our overview of year 1 learning below. For more detail follow this link.

Year 2

 See our overview of year 2 learning below. For more detail follow this link.

Year 3

  See our overview of year 3 learning below. For more detail follow this link.

Year 4

   See our overview of year 4 learning below. For more detail follow this link.

Year 5

    See our overview of year 5 learning below. For more detail follow this link.

Year 6

    See our overview of year 6 learning below. For more detail follow this link.