At Harrington Hill, we aim to support all children to become confident and creative mathematicians, who choose to challenge themselves at every opportunity. Here you will find information about the maths curriculum at Harrington Hill, as well as useful links and updates about maths learning at our school. If you are a parent or carer, interested in maths and would like to be involved in any maths-related events planned for this year, please do get in touch. I hope you enjoy exploring our page.
Mrs Hannah Kavanagh
Maths Leader
At Harrington Hill, we follow the National Curriculum for maths. The program of study aims to ensure that all pupils:
Please see the documents attached below for more information about the objectives that are covered in each year group:
From September 2019, we will be using the ‘Maths – No Problem!’ scheme of work across year groups 1 to 6. It is a highly structured approach to teaching Maths concepts, designed to leave no one behind and to deepen understanding.
Based on Singapore maths principles, ‘Maths No Problem’ is designed and organised to ensure that children fully master key concepts in a visual and practical manner. Pupils will explore concepts using concrete materials, before progressing to pictorial and, finally, abstract (the CPA approach). Working collaboratively, in mixed ability groups, children will support each other in mastering key concepts. Higher attaining pupils can quickly move onto ‘mastering’, while others have the opportunity to really grasp the learning.
This may be very different to the way in which you were taught yourself. To help you support your child at home please see the link below to the ‘Maths No Problem’ website and Parent Videos.
‘Maths – no problem!’ parent videos
This year, we will be running our Ocean Maths workshops again for EYFS and KS1, which have been extremely successful in the past. Ocean Maths is a maths project which involves helping parents to support their children with maths homework. Parents are invited to a workshop led by the class teacher and the maths lead teacher. At the workshop, they work alongside their children to share strategies for maths operations and investigations. We carry out workshops on place value, addition and subtraction strategies and multiplication and division strategies. If there is an area of maths that you would like support with, please let us know and we will endeavour to include it in our next workshop.
The quick recall of multiplication and division facts (times tables) is essential for all children. The ability to recall these facts quickly enables children to answer related questions with ease. According to the National Curriculum the expectation of times tables in each year group is as follows:
We often get asked at parent’s evening, what can be done to help children at home with their maths – learning times tables is a brilliant way of helping your child and it really can make a huge difference. Below is a booklet with ideas to help you support your child with their times tables, it includes some useful strategies, games and links to websites. We hope you find it useful!
Harrington Hill Times tables strategy booklet
Maths is all around us – you can use everyday experiences to reinforce and develop maths skills and vocabulary with your child. Measurement, fractions, shape, time and money all benefit from real world application and can be easily used as a means for your child learn maths. Below are some ideas:
You can see the solutions and play an interactive version of these puzzles at puzzle.com (and many others too). Click on ‘Puzzles to Play’ and follow the link to ‘Matchstick puzzles’.