Our Intent

At Hormead, Mathematics is seen as a fundamental and integral part of the school curriculum and is taught both as a discrete subject and across the wider curriculum. Our intention is that children love learning and are excited by Mathematics as we believe developing a positive attitude to this subject is essential in order to be successful. Our curriculum caters for the needs of all individuals to become successful in not just school but in their future working lives. Whatever their ability or starting place, children are able to confidently use and apply mathematical concepts across a variety of situations. Essentially, our ethos at Hormead is that all children can be successful in the study of mathematics. Maths is for everyone! Everyone can!

What does Maths look like at Hormead?

We teach maths in blocks, to enable the achievement of 'mastery' over time. Each lesson phase provides the means to achieve greater depth, with children who are quick to grasp new content being offered rich and sophisticated problems, as well as exploratory, investigative tasks, within the lesson as appropriate.
Children are not streamed by ability because we expect all children to be given the opportunity to achieve age related expectations. Mastery teaching provides our children with the time to acquire a deep and transferable understanding of mathematical concepts. We appreciate how important it is for our children to become fluent in all aspects of calculation. Therefore, one session per week is dedicated to practising arithmetic/ timetables.
We expect children to clearly articulate their ideas and thoughts and reasoning processes, enabling deeper learning. Our growth mindset approach means we expect children to make mistakes, analyse them and learn from them, justifying and explaining as they do this. At each stage of learning, children should be able to demonstrate a deep, conceptual understanding of the topic and be able to build on this over time.