Intent

At Kenton Bar Primary School, we place a great emphasis on the importance of Maths within our curriculum.  Mathematics introduces children to concepts, skills and thinking strategies that are essential in everyday life and support learning across the curriculum.

In our Early Years Foundation Stage, we aim to:

• Develop children’s understanding of numbers to 10.
• Develop mathematical language to verbally count, compare and explore and represent patterns.
• Develop the capacity to problem solve
• Support parents and carers in their child’s development in mathematics.

In Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, children study the National Curriculum for Maths and aim to: 

• Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems
• Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, justification or proof using mathematical language
• Solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication and resilience
• Engage, inspire and challenge pupils 
• Support parents and carers in their child’s development in mathematics.