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Maths

At St Joseph's, we believe that Mathematics is a powerful tool for social mobility, giving children the knowledge, communication skills and critical thinking skills to be productive citizens in every aspect of life. It is a creative and highly interconnected subject underpinned by the three statutory aims of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.

We wish for children to gain rich experiences during their time with us using their God given talents purposefully, knowing that they can be anything they want to be. As such, we aspire for every child to achieve daily success in maths, leaving each lesson not only with new knowledge but with a love of the subject.

At St. Joseph’s, we intend to deliver the National Curriculum in an engaging and exciting way. We use Power Maths resources to do this throughout our school.

Power Maths uses a Maths Mastery approach and creates consistency, ensuring each child builds secure foundations, allowing them to progressively construct and extend their mathematical understanding as they move through the school.  Every lesson is divided into sections that involve and encourage discovery, sharing, collaboration, practice and reflection. Children are encouraged to solve problems each day through the use of concrete resources, pictorial representations and abstract thinking.

Power Maths is written specifically for UK curriculum classrooms by leading mastery experts from around the world and recommended by the UK’s Department for Education.  You can find out more about the pedagogy of Power Maths at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnN0yPKNchE

As well as engaging and exciting Maths lessons, children also complete daily fluency homework. This gives children the opportunity to take greater responsibility for their learning as well as developing more efficient and fluent calculation skills.

Through our carefully planned and delivered curriculum, children are enthused and prepared to be the next generation of mathematicians, engineers, designers and problem-solvers.