Maths

At St Joan of Arc, our Maths curriculum is designed to support children in becoming fluent with the fundamentals of Maths, being able to confidently and independently apply these skills when reasoning and problem solving.

The White Rose Maths scheme, which adopts a mastery-based approach, is used and adapted by staff in order to provide children with opportunities to challnge their thinking and develop an in-depth understanding of topics.

We use and adapt the White Rose Maths scheme, which adopts a mastery-based approach.  Central to this is the use of the concrete, pictorial, abstract (C-P-A) approach which allows children to first experience new concepts with the use of manipulatives (physical items), before progressing to pictorial representations and finally abstract representations (written number calculations).