Curriculum Statement

At Mountnessing, our mathematics curriculum is underpinned by our Christian vision and commitment to inclusion, ensuring all pupils, regardless of background or need, are enabled to participate fully and thrive. We aim to foster a love of mathematics by providing an engaging and ambitious curriculum that promotes curiosity, confidence and enjoyment. We believe that everyone can do maths.

We follow the White Rose Maths scheme and the National Curriculum, using a mastery approach that enables pupils to develop deep conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills. Learning is carefully sequenced into small, manageable steps, with number at the heart of the curriculum, allowing pupils to build knowledge over time, make meaningful connections and apply their understanding in a range of contexts.

Alongside the full National Curriculum, we prioritise the Department for Education's Ready-to-Progress criteria, recognising these as the essential knowledge and skills that pupils must secure to access future learning successfully. (Please see the link below.) Teaching focuses on ensuring these key concepts are understood deeply and retained over time through regular retrieval, practice and application. In EYFS and Key Stage 1, daily participation in the NCETM Mastering Number programme further strengthens pupils' number sense and fluency.

Across the school, pupils use manipulatives, representations and a concrete-pictorial-abstract (CPA) approach to support visualisation and reveal underlying mathematical structures. Teachers use ongoing assessment to identify gaps in learning and misconceptions quickly, providing timely intervention and targeted support to ensure all pupils keep up, secure essential knowledge and are ready for the next stage of their mathematical education.

In line with our whole-school approach, our mathematics curriculum is carefully structured and coherently sequenced from EYFS to Key Stage 2, enabling clear progression and appropriate challenge for all children, whatever their need.

We aim to develop confident, independent mathematicians who know more, remember more and are equipped for success in future learning and everyday life.