At Belle Vue Primary School, we are committed to providing our children with a maths curriculum that has a clear intention and impacts positively upon their needs. The national curriculum for mathematics, which we teach here at Belle Vue Primary School, intends to ensure that all pupils:

1. Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.

1. Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.

1. Can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions. Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas.

 The programmes of study are, by necessity, organised into apparently distinct domains, but pupils should make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. Our curriculum tries to ensure that  children are all gicen the opportunity to apply mastery skills.

We follow the White Rose maths scheme as the spine of our curriculum, with other resources, such as - ISeeReasoning, NRich, Tara Loughran and Third Space Learning used to extend fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Children also apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects. 

The expectation is that the majority of pupils will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of pupils’ understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly are be challenged through being offered rich mastery and sophisticated problems before any acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material  consolidate their understanding, including through additional practice, before moving on.

Further details of our approach to the teaching of Maths and how we use White Rose can be found in our Maths Policy.

In the section below, you will find our progression documents for Maths and Mathematical vocabulary as well as a document detailing our approaches to teaching maths.  These documents show how the subject develops as the children move through the school

Maths week 2024

Maths week 2024 was a fantastic week in school. Every class based their maths learning around the book 'How Many

Jellybeans?' There was a lot of data handling work done as well as statistics and division. We had visits from a nurse, a health visitor and a gardener to explain how they use maths in their jobs. We held a competition to guess how many jellybeans were in the jar and every child in school had the opportunity to make an estimation. The winner was only one jellybean over! Children in year 5 and year 6 took part in the Primary Maths Challenge and all children gave it their all and we had some fantastic results. Our year 6 House Captains launched their Times Table Rock Stars competition, this will run for the rest of the Autumn term. To help support the year 2 children to begin their Rock Stars journey, the year 5 children came to show year 2 how to use TTRS. We had a special celebration assembly on Friday where every teacher picked a maths star of the week. We also had a number themed non uniform day. 

Daily maths lessons at Belle Vue Primary School

Early years​

• Following the new White Rose planning for 2023​

Year 1 and 2​

• Fluency Bee – 10 minutes ​

• Flash back 4 – 10 minutes​

• Maths lesson using White Rose as the spine for planning ​

Year 3 and 4​

• Times Table Rock Stars – 10 minutes ​

• Flash back 4 – 10 minutes​

• Maths lesson using White Rose as the spine for planning ​

Year 5 and 6​

• Daily calculations – 10 minutes ​

• Flash back 4 – 10 minutes​

• Maths lesson using White Rose as the spine for planning ​

Reception yearly overview 

Year 1 yearly overview

Year 2 yearly overview 

Year 3 yearly overview

Year 4 yearly overview

Year 5 yearly overview

Year 6 yearly overview