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Mathematics
At St Paul’s, we want children to establish an appreciation and love of reading at all stages of their learning journey. We are committed to sharing high quality and vocabulary-rich texts across the curriculum so that children may develop knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live. We encourage our pupils to discover new information and develop their comprehension skills by reading widely using both fiction and non-fiction texts which (where possible) are linked to their topics across the curriculum. We are lucky to have a wide range of books in school and class teachers select books to read aloud based on personal choices or suggestions from pupils. By the time our pupils leave St Paul's, we envisage that they will be competent readers who can recommend books to their peers, seek out books from a range of different genres including poetry and engage in discussion about authorial choices or impact on the reader. Once our pupils have unlocked the key to reading here with us at St Paul's, it is our intention that they will be able to apply their reading skills in order to access any subject in their secondary education and beyond.
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Teachers teach daily maths lessons.
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White Rose informs curriculum planning however it is tailored to best suit the needs of our children.
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At the start of each unit, children in Key Stages 1 and 2 complete a pre-test so that teachers can assess what the children already know and what they need to know. From this information, teachers plan a sequence of learning to ensure that children know more and remember more. Children who need more support will receive rapid support through interventions to ensure that they keep up with their peers.
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Each lesson is built around our mastery approach to mathematics. Children will be introduced to concepts using a range of concrete resources (dienes, bead strings, place value counters, etc) before practise their skills pictorially and abstractly. Once they have developed fluency in this area, their understanding is deepened through questions, which will test their ability to reason, before they move on to solving rich and complex problems.
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At the end of each unit, children in Key Stages 1 and 2 will complete a post-test so that teachers can assess what the children have learnt and tailor future provision.
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Each lesson will begin with ‘Flashback 4’ so that children have the opportunity to recall horizontal knowledge (within year group) as well as vertical knowledge (from previous year groups).
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Throughout the week, children will have opportunities to recall number facts and times table facts through our ‘Numbot’ programme and through ‘Times Table Rockstars’.
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Each week, children in Years 1 to 6 will take an arithmetic practise test; class teachers will use the results as formative assessment and plan ahead to close gaps in knowledge and skills.
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Children who enjoy mathematics.
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Children who are fluent mathematicians.
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Children who can recall number facts speedily and competently.
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Children who are independent learners and can choose resources to help them to learn, when they need them.
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Children who know more and remember more.
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Children who can apply mathematics skills confidently to a range of problems in a range of contexts.Children who can talk about how mathematics is important to the world around them and to their future employment.
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Children who achieve high attainment, in line with the national standard or better!
The 99 Club is a mental-oral starter at St Paul’s C of E Primary School which aims to raise standards in maths through encouraging pupils to improve their mental calculations when attempting quick-fire multiplication and division problems.
The idea is that with repeated practice, the scheme should result in increased speed and confidence when tackling mental maths problems, without relying on written workings and methods.
All pupils will begin at the 11 Club and work their way up, having one opportunity per week during the start of one of their maths lessons to answer all calculations at their current level unaided and within the allotted time of five minutes.
If all of the calculations are answered correctly twice in a row, the child moves up to the next level!
The initial 11 Club involves eleven problems which involve doubling numbers up to ten ie. 5+5, 8+8. The 22 Club then adds eleven further questions involving repeated addition for numbers from one to ten ie. 3+3+3+3, 5+5+5+5+5, while the 33 Club begins to introduce times tables.
Division facts are added by the time a pupil reaches the 77 Club, and in the 88 Club and 99 Club, pupils will be tackling a range of mixed multiplication and division problems.
The full breakdown of The 99 Club levels is as follows:
11 Club - 11 questions involving doubling numbers from one to ten
22 Club - 22 questions involving repeated addition of numbers from one to ten
33 Club - 33 questions introducing the 2x, 3x, 5x and 10x tables
44 Club - 44 questions adding the 1x, 4x and 6x tables
55 Club - 55 questions adding the 7x and 8x tables
66 Club - 66 questions adding the 9x, 11x and 12x tables
77 Club - 77 questions consisting of inverse division facts
88 Club - 88 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts
99 Club - 99 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts
The ultimate challenge is to complete all 99 questions of the 99 Club unaided, with no errors and within five minutes!
Can you get onto the Bronze, Silver and even Gold Clubs which include over one hundred problems to complete in the five minutes, including some very tricky problems involving squares, square roots and cubed numbers?
The 99 Club is not designed for the Foundation Stage, but if staff feel that children are ready to attempt it, they will be given the opportunity to enter the 11 Club!
You can support your child by finding out which level they are working at and helping them to practise the relevant times tables.