Shakespeare Primary School

Where all achieve greatness

Whole School Priorities - I.C.E

Improving

Improving standards for all children. 

Closing

Closing gaps in attainment for all children, regardless of their background or staring points.  

Embedding

Embedding knowledge and developing skills in all curriculum areas for all children. 

Intent

At Shakespeare Primary School, we are passionate about our children's learning. We aim to teach our children a rich, progressive and sequential maths curriculum which develops their ability to calculate, reason and solve problems, enabling them to make sense of the world around them. We aim to provide high quality mathematical learning experiences in order to develop children's mathematical skills and understanding. Children are encouraged to explore maths through practical experiences and investigative work, building a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.

We aim to give all of our pupils. particularly the most disadvantaged, the knowledge, experiences and 'cultural capital' necessary to become educated citizens and to succeed in life. We do this at a minimum by covering the aims of the National Curriculum for maths, which ensures that all children:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
• can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.