Maths

Thank you for visiting our Maths page, please watch the videos below to see the great work we’re doing

Spring 2024

Autumn 2023

More videos of our great Maths work can be seen at the bottom of the page.

Maths

Maths at The Academy at St James

At The Academy at St James, we are totally committed to providing the children with a Mathematics curriculum which will help them to become numerate, independent, inquisitive, enquiring, and confident problem solvers. We also aim to provide them with a variety of experiences and a stimulating environment in which to develop their Mathematical skills, whilst developing a love of learning.

The teaching and learning of Mathematics at our school involves the use of concrete materials, pictorial representations, and abstract calculations; children are encouraged to use reasoning to make links between them all, and to explain how they have worked things out.

The school prides itself on children also have access to high quality, daily morning Maths work which concentrates on developing mental arithmetic skills; it also revisits key knowledge and skills daily to help the children to develop their long term memory and rapid recall.

Curriculum Learning Guide – How Maths is taught at The Academy at St James.

Our curriculum learning guide for Maths outlines our Intent, how we Implement it and what Impact it will have. It includes our Long Term Plans, Mental Maths progression documents, our Learn by Heart document, our Progression in Calculations document, our Expectations for Reasoning and Problem Solving, and our Vocabulary Progression Document. This document sets out the expectations for all staff when teaching Maths and it ensures consistency.

Click this link to view the Learning Guide

Our Calculation Progression Document – click here

You can view the Calculation policy here on it’s own.

The school calculation policy is a guide to the progression of written methods that teachers will teach for the four number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as for Place Value and Fractions. The policy’s purpose is to ensure that methods are taught consistently across school. It guides teachers and parents to visual models and resources that can be used to scaffold children’s understanding of concepts.

Long term Plans

At The Academy at St James, we have recently developed new long term plans to support the children in embedding key skills and concepts into their long term memory. Learning is revisited throughout the year to deepen understanding.

Sumdog

At The Academy at St James, we have subscribed to Sumdog to help the children develop their skills as well as deepen their understanding of Maths in all aspects of the Maths curriculum. The children are able to log in and play both in school and at home. There are over 30 different games available to play and the teachers can set specific tasks related to the children’s learning in class. Sumdog is also a great tool for helping the children to practice their timetables with fluency and speed.

Enrichment Clubs

In order to provide our children with as many Mathematics learning opportunities as possible, we incorporate maths into as many curriculum and forest school lessons as possible. We have also included Maths clubs into our enrichment time. We play tag rugby with Maths. (Tagtiv8)

To see our involvement with Tagtiv8 click here and view our Tagtiv8 video!