At Dorothy Barley Infant School, we use the mastery approach to enable all children to develop mathematical confidence and competence.
At Dorothy Barley Infant School we enable children to achieve confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ – in maths. Therefore they develop the new maths skills and knowledge they need for the future. It is essential to everyday life and therefore, by providing a high-quality mathematics curriculum, we are ensuring a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, as well as encouraging the pupils to appreciate the sense of enjoyment and curiosity they can have about the subject.
At Dorothy Barley Infant School, we want all pupils to become enthusiastic and confident mathematical thinkers. By providing rich, active learning environments, children will be fluent and will be able to explain their reasoning using the precise mathematical language. Within lessons there are links to real-life situations and the lessons incorporate a hands-on approach with manipulatives for the pupils to use, as well as time given to work and collaborate with others on problem-solving. We highlight the key vocabulary needed within lessons which allows the children to speak confidently in various topic areas of maths.
Using White Rose Maths as a starting point, we structure our curriculum around the mastery approach.