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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Latest News
14th Nov - Thank you to everyone for supporting Children In Need today with non-uniform day. You can still donate online on the BBC Children In Need website.
12th Nov - Thank you to Elm class for the tasty cakes enjoyed at today's successful FOPS cake sale.
12th Nov - Thank you to Hazel class for leading their class assembly so confidently today as they enjoyed sharing their learning so far this term with pupils and parents.
11th Nov - Thank you to the Royal British Legion for their welcome and the Standard Bearer for our escort to mark Remembrance in the village today. Our eldest pupils remembered alongside the local community whilst the rest of the school marked the 2 minute silence together.
10th Nov - As we continue to implement our Emotions for Learning (E4L) curriculum, staff training today focused on supporting pupils to identify their emotions and problem solve.
10th Nov - We were delighted to welcome our County Primary Advisor into school today to comment on the calm learning environments, clear routines and expectations, pupils who were on task and able to talk about their learning and the curriculum materials which clearly set out the intended learning.
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