Maths For Parents
At Petersfield, we aim to inspire a love of mathematics in all our children while ensuring they develop the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to succeed. Our curriculum is carefully designed to meet the needs of every learner, offering the right balance of support and challenge based on each child’s starting point..
We use a small steps approach, ensuring children are secure with key concepts before applying them to more complex problems. Through a mastery approach, we focus on deepening understanding, building fluency, developing reasoning and enhancing problem-solving skills.
To help children communicate their ideas clearly, we place strong emphasis on the use of precise mathematical language. Learning is further supported by concrete resources and visual representations, enabling children of all ages to develop a deep and lasting understanding of mathematical ideas.
At Petersfield, we follow the White Rose Curriculum as the core structure for our maths teaching, adapting it where needed to suit the needs of our children and school community. This provides a clear and systematic framework, ensuring progression and coherence across year groups.
Our Maths Curriculum
Moving On Up
Our maths curriculum is designed to:
• Provide all children with a strong foundation in mathematics.
• Nurture a passion for the subject by making learning engaging and meaningful.
• Equip children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed both in school and beyond.
We deliver our curriculum through:
• A mastery approach, using step-by-step progression to secure understanding.
• A consistent structure, ensuring concepts are revisited and built upon systematically.
• Inclusive teaching, offering support and challenge to meet individual needs.
As a result of this approach, children at Petersfield:
• A focus on mathematical vocabulary, helping children explain and justify their thinking.
• Develop confidence and fluency in mathematics.
• Are able to reason mathematically and solve problems in a variety of contexts.
Mathletics
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Ready for next year!
Latest News
24th Oct - School is now closed for the half term holiday. During this time, wellbeing information can be found on the 'Pupil Welfare' page under the Safeguarding menu above. We look forward to welcoming our pupils, parents and visitors back to school on Monday 3rd November after the clocks change!
24th Oct - We ended this half term with a fantastic celebration of learning for Black History Month. Classes shared photos, facts and learning tasks about some really inspirational individuals. What a wonderful way to end our half term. Well done everyone!
16th Oct - Today. Mrs Penrose met with our Ely Diocese Regional Advisor (EDRA) to celebrate the Petersfield successes so far this term.
15th Oct - Thank you to everyone who attended the FOPs AGM and to the outgoing committee for their work to fundraise over the last year. If you have any time to spare to help, please do get in touch.
15th Oct - Thank you to everyone who attended the book look this afternoon and enjoyed sharing and celebrating the children's work.
15th Oct - Well done to everyone who had their flu vaccine today. Also, well done to those people who reassured their friends if they were a bit nervous at first.
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