Maths at Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy
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Here at Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy we are passionate about ensuring all children leave school with the necessary skills to succeed in all areas of Maths. On this page you will find useful information such as the Maths Curriculum, Time Table Rockstars Information and Ideas to Help your Children with Maths At Home.
Intent
At Wilshere Dacre Junior Academy, we strive to make maths exciting, enjoyable and stimulating for all pupils. We provide high quality maths teaching, which is engaging, interactive and builds upon children’s prior learning. As a school, we have invested in the White Rose Maths Scheme which offers a framework to teach the Mathematics Programme of Study as laid out by the National Curriculum. Every resource has been carefully designed to ensure it addresses the three key aims of fluency, reasoning and problem solving and follows the principles of teaching for mastery. We want to ensure that pupils gain a deep understanding of the subject, so we use concrete, pictorial and abstract resources to enable pupils to fully understand what they are learning.
Implementation
Maths is planned using the White Rose schemes of learning as a basis. Learning is organised into units, which have been sequenced to ensure that one unit of work develops to ensure consolidation and the opportunity for progression. White Rose Maths has produced long term plans to support year groups. The overviews are designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning and have been designed to support the aims and objectives of the new National Curriculum. Our approach ensures progression whilst also valuing teacher’s professional judgement to extend learning opportunities for problem solving and reasoning by using resources from Nrich.
Maths is taught five times a week at Wilshere Dacre with four of the five lessons being focused on the White Rose programme of study and one being a fluency arithmetic based lesson recalling previous learning gaps that have been identified in summative and formative assessments.
At Wilshere Dacre Junior Academy, we use the ‘My Turn’, ‘Our Turn’ and ‘Your Turn’ approach. This allows the teaching to show the children how to tackle questions in ‘My Turn’. It promotes talk partners and discussion in the ‘Our Turn’ part so that the teacher is able to identify any misconceptions. Finally, in the ‘Your Turn’ part, children are able to use the previous learning and shared learning opportunities to show their own personal understanding.
A typical lesson would include:
In each classroom, you would see a ‘Maths Working Wall’ display; they are a place to support current and future learning in maths. The working wall is purposeful, helpful, relevant and above all useful. In each class, you will see a maths vocabulary display for the current unit of learning, a list of lessons in the small steps unit of learning and a working example from recent and relevant lessons. Having the vocabulary on display on the working wall and constantly referring to it helps the children to both remember and use it. This vocabulary will also have pictorial representations alongside it when appropriate to deepen children’s understanding. The small steps display allows children to understand how the previous lessons and future lessons connect. The working examples allow children to see their previous learning to recall key methods to ensure that they can be successful.
Impact
By the time children in Year 6 leave us, we want them to have the appropriate knowledge and skills to continue to flourish in maths. Alongside this, we want children to leave our school with a love of learning maths. Termly formative assessments allow teachers to measure the progress pupils are making and ensure that any gaps are identified, and those children are supported through first quality teaching and interventions.