Maths

Mathematics at Honeybourne is carefully structured, fun and challenging. Teachers use a mixture of tasks to encourage children to challenge themselves and aspire to achieve. All children are able to work through tasks at their ability level and are actively encouraged to aim high!

Teachers plan tasks for fluency, reasoning and problem solving; once children are fluent in a skill, they actively move on to work with reasoning and problem solving tasks. Teachers, where necessary, will directly teach pupils how to reason and problem solve using the knowledge that they have acquired during fluency sessions.

As a school, we recognise the importance of concrete apparatus and pictorial representations, across all year groups, to support children in securing knowledge and understanding of newly taught concepts; this can include the use of Numicon, Dienes cubes and bar models.

Recognising the importance of number skills when accessing all of the mathematics curriculum, all children in Years 1 to 6 have arithmetic lessons each week where they consolidate, revisit and secure knowledge of both new and previously taught skills.

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