We believe that every Ireland Wood pupil is a mathematician.  In our Maths lessons, each session is dedicated to achieving mastery of a single objective. Lessons are structured to build on children's existing knowledge, using a variety of concrete and pictorial representations to support understanding of abstract concepts. Manipulatives such as Numicon, Base 10 blocks, and Cuisenaire rods are utilised to aid learning. Teachers clearly model mathematical procedures and reasoning, providing ample guided and collaborative practice before children work independently.

Our curriculum is designed to develop fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills. Our daily fifteen-minute sessions called "Early Bird Maths" focus on practicing key arithmetic skills, helping children recall and apply essential procedures for accuracy and success in more challenging problems.

• Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics.
• Develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly.
• To reason and problem solve by applying mathematics to a variety of increasingly complex problems.
• To build upon children’s knowledge and understanding, firstly from Reception, then from Year 1 to Year 6.
• To develop resilience that enables all children to reason and problem solve with increased confidence.
• To know that it is acceptable to make mistakes: it is through mistakes we often learn.

• To ensure full topic coverage, the school follows the White Rose Maths scheme, but teachers keep a careful eye on their year group's national curriculum objectives, to ensure full coverage. Using the WRM scheme creates continuity and progression in the teaching of mathematics.
• Daily maths lessons include fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
• Adaptive teaching is used to ensure there is appropriate challenge for all learners.
• Concrete resources, manipulatives and pictorial representations are used to support conceptual understanding and to make links across topics.
• Children are individually assessed and rewarded for rapid recall of number bonds and some times tables (KS1) and times tables (Years 1-6).
• Children complete a unit pre and post learning task to ensure progress is being made through their maths journey.
• Children are assessed on a termly basis.

Impact

• Most children reach end of year expectations.
• Children’s progress is tracked
• Well planned sequences of learning support children to develop and refine their maths skills.
• Children are able to independently apply their knowledge to a range of increasingly complex problems.
• Children are reasoning with increased confidence and accuracy.

  

We follow the National Curriculum (2014) in all year groups, using the White Rose Maths Scheme to support our teaching, whilst ensuring our content builds on the skills of Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving. All children,whatever their capability, will experience mastery in their Maths learning.

• Maths Policy.pdf

• To share a love of maths with your given class.
• To celebrate achievements in the school/your classTo explain how we see maths at IWPS to visitors
• To lead activities relating to maths.
• To give the pupils in your given class a voice: to help them share ideas.
• To support other members of the school.
• To introduce competitions and new ideas.
• To raise the profile of maths in school.

On a Friday in February, the children (and staff!) were invited to 'Dress as a Digit' and contribute £1 towards the NSPCC, a charity close to our hearts at IWPS. Maths Ambassadors led 'In a Minute' activities in their assigned classes and Marshmallow challenges, among others, were held throughout the day. We all had a lot of fun exploring maths too, including two Maths Trails around KS1 and KS2.

Because National Number Day clashed with another event at IWPS, we decided to celebrate over two days. We invited the Happy Puzzle Company in to deliver some fun maths workshops and spent the rest of our days doing maths! Teamwork was definitely the order of the day!

Iveson Primary School model how to add larger numbers using the 'column' method.

Adel St John Primary School model how to subtract larger numbers using the 'column' method.

Cookridge Primary School model how to multiply larger numbers using the 'grid' method.

Our very own mathematicians model how to use the 'bus stop' method to divide larger numbers.