At Bedwell Primary School, we want all our pupils to experience deep, sustained understanding so that they become happy and confident mathematicians. Through a positive, practical approach, we will nurture confidence in the subject and a love of mathematics, enabling every child to reach their full potential. We promote a ‘can do’ attitude to maths without a fear of making mistakes. Children will be given time, support and resources to develop a depth of understanding where children can express ideas fluently, and talk about the subject using mathematical language. Using a spiral maths curriculum, we circle back to key concepts, in order for the children to retain more knowledge. This ‘sticky learning’ is embedded within the teaching of maths at Bedwell. 

Our key aims are to: 

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, through varied and frequent practice, so that pupils rehearse conceptual understanding and become confident in recalling and applying knowledge rapidly and accurately. 
• use age-appropriate mathematical vocabulary to reason effectively, and solve problems by applying their skills to a variety of problems with increasing challenge. 
• communicate, justify, argue and prove points using mathematical vocabulary through discussion. 
• develop their character (learning superheroes including resilience, confidence and independence, so that they contribute positively to the life of the school, their local, national and international community.

In order to do this, we base our teaching around the Herts for Learning Essential Maths planning tool. This ensures constant links are made between concrete,  pictorial and representations, so that all children can make rapid progress towards mastery of the curriculum. You can find out more about how we teach maths throughout the school in our Maths Policy.

Learning guides

Below you will find links to documents explaining what learning looks like in each year group:

• The Year 1 Learner
• The Year 2 Learner
• The Year 3 Learner
• The Year 4 Learner
• The Year 5 Learner
• The Year 6 Learner

This term's learning

Year 1 & 2 - We have worked on many skills within maths this term and are now confident counting to 100 and saying what a two digit number is made of. We have learnt about halves and quarters and used this knowledge to say whether a cup is half full, a quarter full or at full capacity.

Year 6 - Once SATs were out of the way our attention turned to problem solving and some practical challenges. We have carried out surveys and presented our findings using pie charts, extended our understanding of algebra, explored nets for complex 3d shapes and investigated scaling by creating a one-tenth scale model of our classroom!