We want all children to leave Year 6 ready for the challenge of Key Stage 3 and for life in Leicester as a young person.
In Years 3 and 4, there is a maths lesson once per week with a focus on developing multiplication/division. Rekenreks are used to provide a strong concrete and visual representation of repeated addition and number sense.
In Years 5/6, there is a maths lesson once per week with a focus on arithmetic. Each lesson has a particular focus that the teacher demonstrates before children are given the opportunity to practise.
Children are encouraged to practise on the Times Tables Rock Stars platform at home. We encourage children to practise for ten minutes at home each day. The ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition is used to reward classes with the highest average correct answers each week. Teachers use the ‘set the tables’ function on TTRS to ensure that children in their class can access appropriate tables questions in the ‘Garage’ mode.
B-Squared – This is for children who need additional support. National curriculum targets are broken down into smaller steps to enable children to build confidence and make progress.
The calculation methods that we teach children are taken from Power Maths. Please click the links below for more information:
This week we invited Liz Gibbs into school to provide additional challenge to our higher attaining children across all year groups. Children were asked to complete tasks using a range of manipulatives including playing cards, dominoes and pieces of paper. They were tasked with the job of completing a maths investigation using these manipulative and were always given a challenge. The children enjoyed their sessions and when asked gave us these responses.
I liked the part where we got to make things with cards.
I prefer this session because I get to use objects to solve the questions.
We are really enjoying it. We love all of the activities.
They worked really well in pairs and small groups and enjoyed the challenges. Using the manipulatives and concrete resources really helps the children to gain a better understanding of the maths problems.
We welcomed many parents to our open door maths lesson today. Our children always enjoy when their parent comes into school, so thank you to all our parents who were able to attend. We hope you found it useful.
“I like it, the teacher spoke nicely and I can see my daughter working well.”
“The teaching is very good, the children enjoy their lesson and learning. I would like more of these sessions.”
“Great workshop, I learned as well.”
“Very helpful and very nice.”
“I found this maths workshop very useful and Mrs Shaukat explained it in an interesting way.”
“We loved to come to this type of workshop, we get more information about children’ learning so we can teach them more at home.”
“It was very interesting and helpful to know the method. Healthy, happy and energetic classroom. I hope to attend more sessions like this.”
“We would like more interactions with the teachers and parents.”
