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
10th Sept - Thanks to the support of their year 6 buddies, our EYFS pupils have had fun exploring the outdoor area alongside all the other classes at break and lunchtime today.
10th Sept - Today, Rowan and Yew class took park in a day of team building activities. Working together, they completed a variety of fun challenges.
9th Sept - Thank you to our year 6 buddies who, much to the delight of Reception, enjoyed played with our new EYFS children at lunch time today.
8th Sept - Welcome to Monday! Apologies, the MCAS app is currently not working nationally. The company assure us they are working to resolve this. We will send the Learning Links as soon as we have access to the system.
3rd Sept - Well done to our eldest pupils who completed their playleader training today. The trainer was very complementary about your team work and skills which you can now use as you offer play opportunities to all our pupils at break times.
3rd Sept - A very warm welcome to all our new pupils and their families joining our school today. You settled in brilliantly, making friends and joining in with the learning. Well done!
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