Maths
Growing Stronger Together in God's Love
Love 
In every class, we promote a love of maths through creative and fun teaching. Children’s love for maths results from exciting learning and tasks where we encourage deep thinking, investigation and problem solving. Maths is a priority and is something we love and celebrate at All Saints’.
Compassion 
In maths, we support each other in different ways and show compassion during maths lessons. We teach children to show compassion towards each other, especially when they make mistakes. Children are supported by their adults and peers; they are shown patience and kindness.
Koinonia
At All Saints’, we give children many opportunities to work together. We promote the sharing of ideas, which we believe deepens children’s learning and thinking. The collaboration between children also develops their language and ability to work with a range of different children, with differing strengths.
Endurance 
Everyday, we challenge children and actively promote that mistakes are there to be learnt from. We promote the idea that learning makes us better mathematicians. We believe it is not just about knowing the answer; it is about the journey and hard work that got you there!
As in all of our subjects, as children work through the maths mastery unit in hand, they will be given opportunities to explore and be immersed in the learning, be explicitly taught skills and learn to apply, and critique, them through our All Saints' Approach: Engage, Skill-Build and Create-Evaluate.
The All Saints’ approach allows children to engage in mathematics and understand, first off, why is maths relevant to them? Where do we see it in our everyday life? How will maths help us in our future career choices? What famous mathematicians inspire us?
When skill-building, we have developed a well-sequenced mathematics curriculum in order for our learners to build upon their prior knowledge, and previously taught, and learnt skills. The children develop a deeper understanding of the new concepts being taught. Lessons are taught in small steps to ensure that children participate in learning that is sequential and builds on their skills.
It is our intent to create an interactive and engaging learning environment where every child is given opportunities to explore and deepen their knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts. We aim to teach children to become fluent in the fundamentals of maths; reason mathematically and solve problems by applying mathematics. Children are able to master a range of mathematical concepts through their reasoning and problem-solving. Once confident, children will then be able to apply skills learnt to create their own reasoning and problem-solving questions as well as self, and peer, evaluating these. Further teacher evaluations and assessments are used to plan further and continue to skill-build over time.
The maths curriculum is designed to increase children’s sense of number and become fluent using the four operations to solve problems within a range of different concepts. Lessons are taught in mixed ability classrooms where children develop the Christian Value of Koinonia by working together, learning from one another. We aim for our children to also show compassion in their maths lessons as they are encouraged to develop the skill of collaborating with others using peer support.
By the end of their All Saints’ journey, the children will become confident, proficient and curious learners. These attributes will allow them to develop into resilient mathematicians showing endurance when faced with a challenge. In addition, our maths curriculum improves the verbal and written communication skills of our pupils, by encouraging them to verbalise their explanations and reasoning using appropriate mathematical vocabulary, which is taught throughout the units of work. All of these skills are those that can be transferred into other curriculum areas and build upon previous knowledge and skills that have been taught in prior year groups.
