Maths Mastery
At Featherstone Wood we are proud to be enrolled on the NCETM Maths Mastery Course.
Here at Featherstonewood Primary school, we follow a Maths Mastery approach to teaching. This means spending greater time going into depth about a subject as opposed to racing through the things that all children should know. Previously, racing through content lead to some children having large gaps in subject knowledge because the concept they had just learnt was either too big or learnt too quickly.
As a primary school, it is our duty to ensure that children have an absolutely solid, concrete understanding of subject knowledge and skills as well as being emotionally resilient for secondary school. With calculation strategies, children must not simply rote learn procedures but demonstrate their understanding of these procedures through the use of concrete materials and pictorial representations.
Now, we have the confidence to take learning at a steadier and deeper pace, ensuring that no child is left behind, as well as providing deeper and richer experiences for children who are above the national expectation for their age.
In short, this means working towards:
-Teach less, learn more: less teacher talk and more evidencing learning and progress
-No child left behind: all children are enabled to keep up every day.
-Space and time to experience and apply, with all children entitled to additional support to ensure they do not fall behind or to go deeper
-Understanding real life applications wherever possible to make learning relevant and not abstract; nothing should be taught without a purpose.
All of this means that you may see a change in the way we teach and assess your child, most notably will be in how we organise your child’s learning and how we report their progress to you.
We will be doing more of this:
-Teaching all children in class, together, most of the time
-Verbal feedback during lessons, shorted comments in books and more ticking of correct concepts
-Spending longer on one idea
-Giving children who need it, additional support over shorter, more intense periods, like a day or week.
Here are some useful documents to support you in understanding your childs maths learning:
Featherstone Wood Primary Multiplication Guide
