Mathematics Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement
Intent:
The intent of our teaching of Mathematics is to provide children with a foundation for understanding number, reasoning, thinking logically and problem solving with resilience so that they are fully prepared for the future. It is essential that these keystones of Mathematics are embedded throughout all strands of the National Curriculum. By adopting a mastery approach, it is also intended that all children, regardless of their starting point, will maximise their academic achievement and leave Holbeach Bank Academy with an appreciation and enthusiasm for Maths, resulting in a lifelong positive relationship with number.
- We ensure that we deliver a high quality Maths curriculum that is both challenging and enjoyable.
- We want children to make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems.
- We intend for our pupils to be able to apply their mathematical knowledge to a range of other subjects.
- We want them to know that maths is essential to everyday life and that our children are confident mathematicians who are not afraid to take risks.
- Fully develop independent learners with inquisitive minds who have secure mathematical foundations and an interest in self-improvement
Implementation:
Our implementation is developed through a secure understanding of the curriculum and subject area.
Teaching and Learning, Content and Sequence:
- For maths, our long term planning follows the National Curriculum 2014. Short term planning is supported by the use of the White Rose Maths Hub materials and our school calculation policy.
- By using a variety of planning resources we believe that we provide a bespoke teaching and learning experience that is designed to interest, inform and inspire our children.
- Using prior knowledge as a starting point for all future planning and teaching, we plan lessons which are required for all pupils to make good progress.
- Lessons are engaging and follow a cycle of planning, to ensure that we can evidence progress over short and long periods of time.
- Maths lessons are designed with a concrete, pictorial and abstract (CPA) approach, providing our pupils with the scaffolding required to access the learning at all levels.
- We place a large emphasis on pupil engagement and design lessons which involve all pupils using questioning and modelling at the centre of every lesson.
- To implement our intent, we ensure that our children are investing in their learning and are making a positive contribution to their lessons.
Leadership, Assessment and Feedback:
- A variety of assessments informs the teaching and learning sequence, and children work on the objectives they are assessed as being at.
- Children who not making the required progress are identified through regular Pupil Progress meetings, then given extra support through booster sessions and support in class in order to meet our INTENT of developing pupils academically.
- Formative assessment within every lesson helps teachers to identify the children who need more support to achieve the intended outcome and who are ready for greater stretch and challenge through planned questioning or additional activities.
- In order to support teacher judgments, children are assessed using current and reliable tests in line with the national curriculum for maths.
- Analysis of any tests that the children complete is undertaken and fed into future planning.
- Summative assessments are completed termly, as well as the end of the academic year, which help influence the overall judgement reported to parents in the end of year report.
- The maths leaders have a clear role and overall responsibility for the progress of all children in maths throughout school. Working with SLT, key data is analysed and regular feedback is provided and discussed at Pupil Progress meetings to inform on progress and future actions.
Impact:
A mathematical concept or skill has been mastered when a child can show it in multiple ways, using the mathematical language to explain their ideas, and can independently apply the concept to new problems in unfamiliar situations.
- Children demonstrate quick recall of facts and procedures. This includes the recollection of the times tables and the related division facts.
- The flexibility and fluidity to move between different contexts and representations of mathematics.
- The ability to recognise relationships and make connections in mathematics.
- Children show confidence in believing that they will achieve.
- Children show a high level of pride in the presentation and understanding of their work.
Maths Yearly overviews.
Below are the teaching overviews for EYFS and KS1, Y3 and 4 and Y5 and Y6. These follow White Rose schemes with some adaptations by the maths team.
The Teaching of Mathematics
This year Holbeach Bank Academy are taking the current programme of ‘Teaching for Mastery’ to the next level. Last year we started to develop our programme to help the pupils to develop key mathematical skills and knowledge in a wider variety of ways. This developed their fluency between numbers with regards to patterns, rules, relationships and strategies. Thus the children were allowed to achieve a greater depth of understanding before they moved on to new concepts.
To do this we have no only worked on the journey that our pupils take to make links in mathematical understanding, but we have also thought about the types of activities and questions that allow a child to apply what they have learnt in additional contexts or ways.
To support this process, we also provided an extensive range of concrete resources, linked to useful diagrams and visual representations. As learners we have different learning preferences therefore these approaches have allowed variation in the children’s understanding of a single concept- knowing multiple ways a number can be represented, for example, rather than just one.
Although this is still a key focus in our maths curriculum at HBA we are also extending our mastery programme to encompass a range of opportunities to problem solve. We shall introduce further types of problems and puzzles that allow pupils to call upon a range of strategies. Independence, mathematical fluency, self-motivation and resilience are all areas that improve as part of problem solving.
As part of our post Covid catch up plan, we are using the White Rose Maths revised plans in conjunction with the Government Mathematics guidance (published in June 2020) to support teachers in identifying an narrowing gaps from missed and forgotten content.
Skills Progression in Maths
]HBA Progression Map Addition And Subtraction
]HBA Progression Map Place Value
HBA Progression Map Multiplication And Division
HBA Progression Map Measurement
HBA Progression Map Geometry Posistion Direction And Movement
HBA Progression Map Geometry Properties Of Shapes
Using Apparatus in Mathematics
To begin learning any new concept in Maths we start with concrete apparatus to manipulate, combine and support. These resources are used further up the school to support understanding and promote the independence in our young learners. They can be used by all ages to understand problems and puzzles also. They hold a vital role in mastery as they are the building blocks that children use to step up to visual and symbolic representations.
In school we utilise a range of resources including rods and cubes, counters, coins, blocks, counting animals, straws, clocks, 2D and 3D shapes. Here are some photos of our pupils supporting their own steps in learning.
Maths Award
Each week the Maths Award is celebrated through our whole school assembly. Each class celebrates a nominated pupil who receives the award for achievements, progress or determination in a particular mathematical area or applying their knowledge somewhere in the curriculum. A pupil from each class is awarded a certificate to celebrate their achievements and progress in maths each week.
Multiplication Tables at Holbeach Bank Academy
At Holbeach Bank Academy, Times Tables Rockstars is embedded into the daily routine of Year 3/4 pupils to strengthen their understanding and recall of multiplication facts, as well as their ability to apply the commutative law. Each day, children engage in sessions that include songs, counting activities, and weekly paper-based tests to reinforce rapid recall and support the application of multiplication skills across other areas of Maths. Additionally, a lunchtime club is available to provide extra support.
TT Rockstars homework is assigned weekly, with pupils encouraged to access the platform at least three times per week at home. In Year 2, weekly TT Rockstars sessions focus on consolidating the 2, 5, and 10 times tables along with related division facts, preparing children for the transition into Year 3. Daily practice continues in Year 3, ensuring pupils can confidently recall and use the 3, 4, and 8 times tables, equipping them with the foundational knowledge required for Year 4.
Click on the image to go to TT Rockstars
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check Parent and Carer Guide 2025
Attached below is the 2025 guide for parents and carers for thr Mulliplication Tables Check which will take place in June 2026.
Maths SATs KS1
Nationally, children in year 2 sit optional Standard Attainment Tests (SATs) during the month of May, usually. Children are fully prepared for these test through skill building in class as well as practice test papers.
Closer to the time, class teachers will invite parents in to school to share resources, specific information as well as information about how you can help at home.
Please follow the links that will direct you to the gov website for any further information.
These are previous test papers that show what could be expected in other tests.
Maths SATs KS2
Nationally, children in year 2 sit Standard Attainment Tests (SATs) during the month of May and within a very specific time frame. Children are fully prepared for these test through skill building in class as well as practice test papers.
Closer to the time, class teachers will invite parents in to school to share resources, specific information as well as information about how you can help at home.
Please follow the links that will direct you to the gov website for any further information.
Practice SATs papers – These are previous test papers that show what could be expected in other tests.
Useful websites to support your child at home
We all know how important your child’s learning is. Here are some useful websites that your child(ren) should be familiar with. Follow the link and enjoy watching their successes.
If you require any further support, please speak to your child’s class teacher, contact the office via enquiries or send a note in your childs home/school diary and we will support you and your child in any way we can.
TT Rockstars – TT rockstars is an online platform that children have individual logins too. Their times tables are set by the class teacher as well as the sotware learning the child’s next steps and adapting their times tables to suppor ttheir progress. Some activities or battles may be set by the class teacher or children cn log in and play to practice their times tables knowledge – A very important skills to help with learnign in all other areas of Maths.
Hit the Button – Hit the button is an online game that is used across the whole school – number bonds, times tables and all times so you get quicker and more confident. Children will be familiar with this game and it is a great tool to keep up this fast recall knowledge with number.
NSPCC Number Day 2025 – Friday 7th February 2025
What’s your favourite number? What numbers are special to your family? Could be house numbers, birthdays or lucky numbers! Where can you find numbers around your home or at the shops? What do these numbers mean?
Buddy from the NSPCC is running challenges on Friday 7th February at HPA to test your number knowledge! We would love for you all to take part. You could get involved by wearing non-uniform: the theme is ‘Dress Up for Digits‘.
For more information- see the letter attached below.
Check in here and on class webpages for photos of the day!
NSPCC Number Day
Number Buddy
