Our Vision

At Kings Rise Academy the intent of our curriculum is to celebrate diversity, improve health and raise aspirations by providing a high quality mathematical education which provides a foundation for understanding the world, ability to reason mathematically and develop an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics through a sense of number, enjoyment and the curiosity of Maths. 

Our Maths Curriculum

At Kings Rise Academy, our Maths curriculum is designed to provide children with opportunities to:

• develop their mathematical fluency in a range of areas through a concrete, pictorial and abstract (CPA) approach.

• apply their understanding to be able to solve problems in a range of different contexts.

• explain their reasoning when identifying solutions to problems and when responding to mathematical statements.

Our Mathematical curriculum offers a vast range of experiences which are designed to provide pupils with the confidence and Mathematical understanding needed to enable them to celebrate their diversity, improve their health and raise their aspirations in our school and beyond as we believe Maths is essential to everyday life. 

NCETM

We are currently on our Mastery journey with NCETM. We are now in our third year which is our embedding year of the Teaching for Mastery programme. They are supporting us to access a teaching for mastery approach which will be embedded and sustained across the whole school. This will involve receiving support from Mastery Readiness Leads, and developing classroom culture and attitudes to maths that will support a teaching for mastery approach, both on the part of teachers and pupils.

Alongside of this, teachers have accessed a variety of other development workshops they offer including Mastery for number and Maths subject knowledge. We are actively improving and updating our knowledge and CPD (career professional development). 

‘Learning multiplication facts is an important foundation for learning different aspects of mathematics such as  division, algebra, long multiplication, and even fractions.  

For pupils that don't have a solid grasp of the times tables, they may find these other areas to be hard to  understand as well.’ 

DfE, February 2018 

When it comes to times tables, speed AND accuracy are important – the more facts your child remembers, the easier it is for them to do harder calculations. Times Table Rock Stars is a fun and challenging programme designed to help pupils master their times tables! To be a Times Table Rock Star you need to answer any multiplication fact up to 12×12 in less than 3 seconds!