Maths
At Holy Spirit, we value maths as an important subject area in life inside and outside the classroom. We provide the children with engaging lessons as we want all children to access, enjoy and achieve in the maths curriculum we offer here so that they are fully equipped to access maths in their secondary school.
Our curriculum is based on the updated 2014 national curriculum and a model by the White Rose Maths Hub. The updated maths curriculum encourages a study of fewer skills in greater depth – this is what we call mastery. We ensure children gain an in depth understanding of maths by teaching fluency, reasoning and problem solving across each unit of our maths curriculum. We follow an approach called CPA – where children use Concrete apparatus and Pictorial representations to gain a secure understanding of Abstract mathematical concepts. All stages of CPA should be taught simultaneously whenever a new concept is introduced or the teacher wants to build further on a particular concept.
For more detailed information on the structure and content of our maths lessons across the school please see the attached documents:-
website mathematics policy holy spirit draft updated april 2020.pdf