Maths
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t Grangehurst, we recognise the significant role that maths plays in everyday life, and we aim to provide a high-quality maths curriculum, rich in skills and knowledge, to enable children to make sense of the world around them.
The National Curriculum outlines the main objectives for maths:
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Fluency – helping pupils become confident with numbers, facts, and methods so they can work things out accurately and efficiently.
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Reasoning – teaching pupils to explain their ideas, spot patterns, make connections, and think logically about maths.
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Problem-solving – giving pupils the skills to use their maths in real and unfamiliar situations, choosing effective strategies and persevering with a task to find a solution.
Our Approach
We aim to promote positive attitudes towards maths and to ensure that learning is accessible to all pupils. We achieve this by sequencing learning so that pupils can build securely on their prior knowledge, and by providing scaffolds and extensions when needed. Across the school, we use a variety of concrete, pictorial and abstract representations to help pupils understand mathematical ideas and make meaningful connections between concepts.
The White Rose Scheme of Learning organises objectives from the national curriculum into teaching blocks, as seen below. We use resources from this scheme to support the teaching 
and learning of maths throughout the school.
Morning Maths Tasks
To reinforce learning and develop confidence and fluency, teachers provide pupils with additional opportunities to revisit and practise concepts taught in lessons. Throughout the week, as morning tasks, pupils across the school engage in a range of problem-solving, recall activities and fluency practice to strengthen the skills taught within our formal lessons.
Times Tables
We recognise that times tables facts underpin many of the core foundations in mathematics. It is important that pupils are taught their times tables through explicit lessons in school and are then given plenty of opportunities to practise and strengthen their recall, both in school and at home. Our TTRS Leaderboard highlights the classes that are most active in practising these essential skills.
Additional Resources
At Grangehurst, we have access to a number of tools to support our teaching, assessments and interventions within maths, ensuring that our pupils are given the opportunity to become confident and competent in the subject.
