Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School

At Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, we want children to be fluent in the key numeracy skills of Maths and be able to apply these skills to a range of problem solving situations. We want pupils to know the ‘why’ in Maths and we want them to be able to have a deep understanding of Mathematical methods so that they can pull it apart, reason and apply. To this end we follow a maths mastery approach to learning and teaching. We strive to achieve this by allowing opportunities for all to reach the same outcome; displaying and using relevant vocabulary; focusing on delivering high quality provision through resources and key questioning and by using concrete resources for children to manipulate, before moving onto using pictorial representations and writing the abstract. We begin each lesson with a range of arithmetic questions to enhance fluency of mathematical basic skills and regularly provide children with a variety of reasoning and problem solving activities 

At Corpus Christi we link Mathematical learning cross-curricular (where possible) to give our children opportunity to extend their learning beyond the classroom. We provide children with opportunities to discuss their thinking without worrying about the correct answer which enables deepen thinking.

At Corpus Christi we follow the Mastery approach to the teaching of Mathematics. Our teachers adopt strategies to ensure all children access the whole curriculum. We strive to ensure that all teachers and children emphasise number facts, precise mathematical language and full sentences. Our teachers plan maths lessons by mapping key mathematical concepts in a topic, then breaking them down into small steps that aim develop children’s fluency and reasoning together.