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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