Numeracy

At Langley Hall, we strongly believe that developing an understanding of how maths is used in everyday life, gives children the opportunity to fulfil our school motto ‘preparing for life’. We are committed to ensuring that they are also able to use their mathematical skills and knowledge confidently in a range of real life contexts. We aim to make maths lessons enjoyable and for our children to experience success in the subject including the ability to reason mathematically. We also aim to develop the children's curiosity about the subject giving them plenty of opportunities to investigate and solve problems in various ways.

The school follows the White Rose Mathematics scheme of work. Each year group has its own dedicated course of learning, which enables the children to progress through topics whilst continuing to hone and develop their existing mathematical skills. The WRM encompasses all of the objectives stated in the National Curriculum, ensuring full coverage of the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculums. Within Reception, our EYFS cohort work towards their Early Learning Goals using a hybrid combination of WRM activities and their own bespoke activities.

As times tables are a vital part of mathematical development, we have one half hour lesson per week focusing on times tables and make use of the fantastic Times Tables Rockstars platform. We promote mixed-ability learning, giving children the chance to share their ideas and working methods - an approach that had very positive results.

• Our maths lessons consist of distinct sections designed to develop the different facets that form a confident mathematician: Starter tasks (Tables, Arithmetic and Reasoning) - designed to recap the basic mathematical operations and processes and develop confidence.
• Fluency - repetition of methods to embed calculation methods.
• Reasoning & Problem Solving - multi-step worded problems that require decoding.
• Challenge/Test-style activities
• Assessment

Each week, we have a purely practical lesson built into our double maths lessons, giving the children time to practise practical maths. We have a wide array of practical resources to support this, with each year group having its own bespoke range of practical items linked to the key activities that their cohort will complete during the year.

Annually, our children have the opportunity to participate in the UK Junior Maths Challenge - in which we have a very good record - alongside participating in a variety of external maths challenge events. The children are selected from our KS2 challenge group. Additionally, we have a number of after-school clubs dedicated to maths too.