Maths

Maths at Yeading Infant and Nursery School

At Yeading Infant and Nursery school we encourage children to enjoy Maths from an early age. It is our aim to provide a learning atmosphere which gives children the opportunity and confidence to discuss, investigate and develop a good understanding of Maths.

During the teaching of Maths, learning is focused on specific objectives. There is a balance of practical and written activities to develop and consolidate areas of learning and enable every child to reach their full potential and prepare them for life.

Parental Involvement

‘Maths is Fun’ – one morning a week between 8.45 -9.00, parents are encouraged to join in the classroom to support the children with their Maths. The focus is on the objectives taught in the class during the week.
Parents of all year groups are invited to curriculum meetings where they are informed of the expectations in Maths. Information is given of the key objectives covered during the year.
Workshops are held for parents to share strategies of how they can support their child at home

Monitoring & Assessment

Maths learning walks are carried out every term in EYFS and KS1.
Monitoring of books is carried out once a term
Moderation of Maths happens in year groups and as a whole school during insets. Year 1 and 2 teachers also moderate together to ensure consistency across KS1.
Pupil Progress Meetings are held with the headteacher every term to track children’s progress and provide appropriate intervention
Planning is monitored by the SMT regularly

EYFS

Early number concepts are part of everyday learning during the early years.

Some objectives include: children are able to count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20. They can add and subtract two single digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, position, distance, time and money. Also, they recognise, create and describe patterns.
Parents are encouraged to support their child’s learning by playing games, asking the child to help with daily activities and encouraging the use of mathematical vocabulary- please check website for more information.

KS1

Key objectives include:

All children have a daily Maths lesson with clear learning objectives and success criteria. The guidelines in the National Curriculum are followed whereby every child receives quality maths teaching.
Weekly maths homework in KS1 is sent every Monday.
Computing is used to support the development of Maths skills. There are a number of programmes which children can access on the computers in their classroom including Computing games/ Espresso.
As much as possible, lessons are linked to cross curricular topics and everyday life.

The children in Year 1 and 2 follow the guidelines in the National Curriculum. It is divided into 4 areas across the key stages:

Using and applying mathematics
Number
Shape, space and time
Handling data