Our Maths ambition

Mathematical skills both in the classroom and within life skills are a key part of preparing our pupils for their next stages in education and adulthood.

We will ensure all pupils receive quality first teaching of mathematics. Our ambition is to enable all pupils to:

• Develop their mathematical skills, knowledge and understanding
• Have an appreciation of number and number operations
• Have functional maths skills for adulthood

Learning within Maths falls under all 5 of our curriculum drivers for pupils to lead happy, independent and successful lives.

Milton’s Maths strategy

• We believe that with the right support, every pupil regardless of background or special need can learn to use and apply mathematics skills.
• We know some pupils will not find mathematics easy, but we won’t give up.
• We ensure the teaching of maths is high profile in all classes each day.
• We teach maths using our Milton Maths Special Curriculum, designed for our school, for the explorers and discoverers route for learning. Our Adventurers and Pioneers pathway for learning uses adapted White Rose curriculum and where applicable White Rose curriculum.
• Our curriculum is designed to prioritise number with regular opportunities to revisit prior learning, embedding knowledge and developing understanding.
• We teach maths using a CPA approach to support learning and provide opportunities for memorable experiences within our lessons.
• We provide a curriculum that develops functional maths skills for our pupils to take with them into adulthood.
• Pupils accessing the Adventurers and Pioneers pathway are taught times tables and have access to Times Tables Rockstars.
• We have regular staff training to ensure staff are skilled in the teaching of mathematics.

How is Maths taught at Milton?

We take a stage not age approach to the teaching of Maths at Milton.

All classes have dedicated Maths lesson on the timetable each day. During this lesson pupils will be taught at the stage appropriate to their mathematical development.

The stages of the Maths curriculums at Milton are:

How is Maths taught at Milton?

Maths is taught through our Milton Maths Special Curriculum and our adapted White Rose Curriculum. The curriculums are designed to meet the needs of our pupils, working at the appropriate stage for them. The curriculums are designed to spiral providing regular opportunities for revisiting, retrieving and overlearning to ensure knowledge, skills and understanding is embedded.

Ongoing assessment and tracking, using teacher assessment within the Milton Maths Curriculum and termly assessments using Educator within the adapted White Rose Curriculum, ensures that all pupils are accessing the stage of learning that meets their need and provides an appropriate level of challenge for them to be successful within mathematics.

In all our classrooms our Milton Maths Mate is used to help and support pupils with their current topic of learning. In addition to this a CPA approach is evident, the use of manipulatives supports all pupils, working within all stages, to make mathematical connections.

Our school Maths leads and trust Director for Maths regularly monitor the quality of Maths teaching and ensure that we are meeting out 5 curriculum drivers – Independence, functionality, choice, voice, joy of living.

Milton Maths leads