Here at St Rose, we are a White Rose Maths school! But why? 

White Rose Maths uses a mastery approach to maths teaching. This is a research-driven teaching and learning method that meets the goals of the National Curriculum.

What does it mean in practice? In summary, a mastery approach… 

• Puts numbers first: Our schemes have number at their heart, because we believe confidence with numbers is the first step to competency in the curriculum as a whole.
• Puts depth before breadth: we reinforce knowledge again and again.
• Encourages collaboration: children can progress through the schemes as a group, supporting each other as they learn.
• Focuses on fluency, reasoning and problem solving: it gives children the skills they need to become competent mathematicians.

 

Concrete Pictorial Abstract 

At the heart of our mastery approach is the Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) approach. Research shows that when children are introduced to a new concept, working with concrete physical resources and pictorial representations leads to a better understanding of abstract concepts. We use CPA throughout our schemes of learning.

 

Maths At Home

White Rose Maths also recognise the importance of the difference families can make to a child's learning in Maths and so they have created free workbooks that you can download and use at home too!

Why not click on the link below and take a look...?

 

Get the 1-Minute Maths App! It's completely FREE!

What’s the app about?

This first version of the app is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils (ie, age 5-6 years). Individual one-minute tasks focus on adding and subtracting – and on ‘Subitising’, the skill of instantly recognising the number of items in a group without counting. Multiplication and division topics are also now available!

How do we use it?

Children can choose any topic they want to try. They then answer a unique series of questions (so it’s a different set of questions every time). If they’re struggling with a question, a ‘Hint’ button will give a helpful clue by showing the question in a different but familiar way.

When the one minute’s up, they’ll see a feedback screen telling them how they’ve done.

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We use Big Maths to ensure basic skills are covered and repeated in order to consolidate the teaching that has taken place in Maths No Problem. 

 

Three times a week, the children receive Big Maths teaching sessions which last for 20 minutes. This is broken down into 5 minute intervals to cover a range of aspects:

• Counting
• Learn Its
• It's Nothing New
• Calculation

 

These sessions feed into their weekly tests, of which there are two...

The children are given levelled tests that move up in difficulty and where they explore the Counting, It's Nothing New and the Calculation aspects of their teaching. 

When they score 10/10 three consecutive times, they are moved to the new level. 

 

To see if your child is working at the expected level for their year group, see the table below... 

 

Each week, the teachers review the errors and misconceptions which inform them as to what to plan for the following week's Big Maths teaching. 

 

The children are given levelled tests that move up in difficulty and where they explore the 'Learn Its' part of their taught sessions. These questions cover both addition and multiplication facts that children should know quickly and without having to calculate. This test is timed to encourage speed recall. 

Again, when they score full marks for three consecutive weeks, they are moved to the new level. 

 

To see if your child is working at the expected level for their year group, see the table below... 

 

Each week, the teachers review the errors and misconceptions which inform them as to what to plan for the following week's Big Maths teaching. 

If you would like to support your child in their learn its, you could encourage them to use their TTRS and Numbots accounts where they rehearse the same skills. 

Home Learning in Maths

 

To support the children further, as a school we pay for access for every child to be able to play and practise their recall of addition and multiplication facts because we know how vital they are for their maths progress. 

 

They can use the same log in details to access both the sites below...

   

CLICK ON THE ICON TO ACCESS THE SITE

 

They have been given these log in details by their class teacher, but if you have misplaced them, please contact the school office at enquiry@olstrose.bham.sch.uk and we will do our best to get the information you need as quickly as possible. 

 

The quicker you are at multiplication recall, the better your rock status!

How quick are you..?