Maths
Mathematics will significantly improve the life chances of all our students. As well as success through exam results, Mathematics lessons should
equip students with the numeracy skills required to be successful in the wider workplace as well as develop students’ critical thinking skills.
The Mathematics department continues to explore ways of offering a broad and comprehensive curriculum that can be accessed by all students. Students are inspired and teachers are able to increase students’ confidence in Mathematics. Our maths teachers believe that students will develop holistically and increase their confidence in maths.
Curriculum
All students are given an exercise book for their work. Students must have the rest of their equipment for every lesson.
Students in Years 7 and 8 study the four areas of Mathematics: Number and Algebra, Shape, Space and Measure, Data Handling and Problem Solving. The curriculum topics are spiral and students are assessed at the end of each unit. Students are expected to make a minimum of 2 sub levels of progress a year. However, higher levels of progress are encouraged.
Students will undertake a baseline assessment, which we use along side the KS2 level to group students. We have the flexibility to move students between groups.
