We want children at Sandal Magna to be confident, resilient and determined mathematicians who enjoy maths and appreciate its importance as a valuable skill for life. Using the White Rose Maths progarme, a solid and rigorous approach to arithmetic skills progression ensures our children are well equipped to recall knowledge, tackle year group specific content and to be fluent and confident when reasoning and solving a wider range of mathematical problems. With reasoning skills and vocabulary at the very heart of our Mathematics lessons, we encourage all children to think both independently and in collaboration with others. We celebrate learning from our mistakes and opportunities to unpick, share and prove our Mathematical reasoning in varied contexts. Resilience is fostered and developed, to encourage children to relish every opportunity and rise to the challenges which life offers them.
“I like trying to work out the questions using the skills we have learnt” – Simrah
“We measured the cubes and rulers to measure, it was so fun.” – Retaj
“My favourite part about maths is everything”- Alesha
“I like that the work gets more challenging throughout the lesson – this helps my confidence because I know that I can do it!” – Filip
“I like doing a reasoning question every day and the teacher modelling it for us – this helps me a lot” – Aisha
“I like using the bead strings to count up to 50.” – Muhammed