The curriculum intent in St Cecilia’s Mathematics department is for all children to develop into numerate problem-solving young adults, to become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, ready to face the challenges that life throws at them through building resisilience. There is great depth to the curriculum, interleaving skills, through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems overtime from year 7 up to year 11. Children will develop their long-term memory and retrieval skills, developing their ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. A deep, clutter free curriculum that focusses on Mastery empowering children to go beyond their exam success and be ready to use/transfer their skills to everyday life. ‘Mathematics is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment’ Mary Myatt.
Our 5-year plan outlines the coherently planned and sequenced learning journey our pupils will undertake, auditing and then building on what has been learned at KS2, including how substantive and disciplinary knowledge is organised within topics in order to best access both a unit end point and future learning that relies upon this.
Alongside an emphasis on Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary within the curriculum, our reading document provides examples of how reading is prioritised and how we use the latest research to guide reading and incorporate tasks that manipulate and emphasise meaning within it.
Our assessment document shares how our assessments have been designed to assess composite knowledge (the big picture) and thus provide the greatest opportunity to use teacher feedback to address pupils' gaps in key component understanding, address misconceptions and reteach where necessary. All leading to improvement in learning.
In addition, Catholic Social Teaching flows throughout our curriculum, and is given special focus each half term in the form of a departmental agreed activity. See an example of this below.
Finally, look within our school’s Personal Development Overview document for examples of how our subject contributes towards our pupils’ holistic formation.
Maths Documents
Personal Development Programme
Staff/Context
Mrs C Lucas Curriculum Leader
Mrs C Cook
Mrs E Buckley
Miss R Livesey
Mr F Kinnear