Y3 Maths
17-09-2026
The children have been learning place value. This week we played a team game where children had to use the place value counters to make the number shown.
Intent
Maths is the foundation for understanding the world and through the teaching of Mathematics at St. Jude’s, our intent is to ensure that our children know the purpose behind their learning and apply their knowledge to their own everyday lives. We have agreed whole school curriculum drivers which run through all our curriculum subjects. We value a maths curriculum that is creative and engaging, making use of high-quality resources to enrich our teaching and learning of maths. All children will have access to this curriculum, maximising the development of every child’s ability and academic achievement to reach their potential.
With an emphasis on vocabulary in mathematics, children use appropriate mathematical talk to communicate and engage in discussions. It is important to us to develop confident mathematicians who persevere in their learning and feel safe to take risks as they develop their ability to problem solve, reason, think logically and work systematically.
Implementation
Here are St. Jude’s, Mathematics is taught through a mastery approach, using we the White Rose resources and enhanced with other high-quality resources. We aim for our children to develop the necessary skills to become ‘deep thinkers’, who are able to make rich connections across the areas of maths and acquire skills that can be recalled quickly and transferred and applied in different contexts in Maths and, where possible, across the whole curriculum.
All children are catered for within the maths lessons as we ensure that the children are offered the necessary support and challenge for everyone to make progress. We ensure that maths is taught in creative and engaging lessons using a wide range of maths manipulatives to aid and support our children in their learning. We use a ‘Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract’ approach throughout a unit of Mathematics; enabling all children to experience hands on learning and have clear models and images to aid their understanding.
Our aim is to ensure that the three core areas of the national curriculum are covered in all our lessons: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. We offer the children the opportunity to have varied and frequent practice of their maths skills with the focus on their ability to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately.
Reasoning, is integrated into our lessons to equip our children with the skills to describe, explain, convince, justify and prove. The emphasis we put on the using and understanding of mathematical vocabulary is key to the success of this.
We hope to build problem-solvers of the future and build perseverance in our children; essential skills used in all aspects of their learning.
At St Jude’s we offer enrichment activities to promote maths within our children’s lives including a lunch-time maths club where children access on-line resources to develop fluency in the recall of number facts. All children have access to Times Tables Rock Stars or Numbots to continue to develop their Maths skills through home learning.
Teachers have a flexible approach to the structure of their lesson so that they can reach the needs of the curriculum, however, all maths lessons must have the following key elements:
- Skills practice – revisit of previous taught content, developing fluency of number facts etc
- Vocabulary – to review and/or introduce and explain new vocabulary
- Purpose- links with real life situations/problems
- Modelling by the teacher
- Independent activity
- Plenary/Review
Impact
As a result of our Mathematics teaching at St. Jude’s you will see:
- children who are engaged in their learning and enjoy Mathematics
- successful learners who make at least expected progress
- successful learners who build upon previous learning to access new knowledge and skills, retrieving learning and applying it in different contexts
- fluent mathematicians who can recall key number facts rapidly and accurately and apply their knowledge across a range of contexts
- pupils who confidently reason about their learning, justifying or proving their answers using mathematical language
- children who are confident to talk about Mathematics and their learning, relating it to real life purposes
- children who are fluent in mathematical language
- children who can clearly explain and articulate their learning, using accurate vocabulary and terminology
- children who have skills to use methods independently and show perseverance when tackling problems
- the use of different representations of mathematical concepts
- learning that is tracked and monitored to ensure all children make good progress
At St Jude’s, assessment is an on-going element of the teaching and learning of Mathematics and takes place constantly through the verbal feedback children receive during lessons. End of unit reviews from White Rose informs assessment and children are assessed every half term using NFER assessments.
At the end of each term, assessment data is shared with the curriculum link governor.
Maths Subject Overview
Addition and Subtraction Visual Calculation Policy
Multiplication and Division Visual Calculation Policy
Maths Progression
Websites to support your child with Maths at home, click on each website to explore.
Helping your child at home with Maths
Multiplication
Being fluent in calculations and knowing times tables by heart are essential in Mathematics. Children who have a strong grasp of them tend to be more confident when learning new concepts.
At school, children lots of practical resources to develop a good understanding of multiplication and division and on-line games such as Times Tables Rock Stars will help them become more fluent.
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In the Summer Term, children in Year 4 will do a Multiplication Tables Check introduced by the Government; an annual check that children have a good level of times tables knowledge.
Find out more and be ready for the Check:
Multiplication – Information for parents
Quick fire Times Tables practice
Topmarks Multiplication Hit the Button
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General Maths websites to support your child at home:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/helping-children-maths/family-maths-toolkit
Maths Chatter
Y3 Maths
10-09-2026
The children have been learning about flexible partitioning to1000 and used the base tens to partition numbers in different ways.
🍦 Reception’s Ice Cream Shop was open for business! 🍦
08-07-2026
On Friday, our Reception children enjoyed a very special treat as our very own Ice Cream Shop opened its doors!
Throughout the week, the children had been working hard to earn up to five coins through their fantastic effort, positive choices and wonderful behaviour. When Friday arrived, they were able to spend their hard-earned coins in the shop, choosing from a delicious selection of treats including a bowl, ice cream, sprinkles, sauce and even a super secret surprise! 🍨✨
The children loved using their knowledge of number bonds to 5 to work out how many more coins they needed to earn so they could buy the items they wanted. It was wonderful to see them applying their maths skills in a fun and meaningful way as they counted, calculated and made their choices.
They were so proud of what they had earned and thoroughly enjoyed visiting the shop, creating their ice creams and, of course, eating them afterwards!
One child was even given the special opportunity to work in the shop alongside the teachers, helping their friends by adding sprinkles and sauce to their ice creams. They loved taking on this important role and being part of the ice cream shop experience.
It was a fantastic way to celebrate all of the children’s hard work throughout the week, while also practising important maths skills and creating some wonderful Reception memories. 🍦💙
Y6 Maths
26-06-2026
Year 6 have been learning about the Fibonacci sequence in maths. The children explored the numerical sequence and then drew out the spirals and designed a pattern to go with it.
Y6 Maths
06-03-2026
Year 6 have been leaning how to solve and form algebraic equations. They were finding patterns in numbers by moving different coloured frogs on the iPads to form their equations
Pancake Challenge.
16-02-2026
Today in Reception, things got flipping fantastic! 🥞
We challenged the children to a one-minute pancake flipping contest and asked, “How many can you flip in a minute?” Using their fantastic gross motor skills, the children carefully flipped their playdough pancakes in the pan while counting each one.
There was lots of concentration, excitement and big smiles as they tried to beat their own scores. What a fun way to build coordination, confidence and counting skills all at the same time!
NSPCC Number Day
06-02-2026
Year 6 enjoyed dressing up with numbers and as rockstars for NSPCC number day. The children enjoyed taking part in some TT Rockstars!
Sorting by colour ❤️
05-02-2026
In preschool we have been organising by colour in maths 🌈🔴🟡🔵
Great sorting and super thinking everyone 📊👏
Well done ⭐😊
The Three Little Pigs 🐷 🏡
04-02-2026
This week in preschool our story is The Three Little Pigs 🐷📖
The children independently made their own house using bricks 🧱 They were so excited to discover that the Big Bad Wolf couldn’t knock their houses down! 🐺💨
Lots of problem solving, creativity, and big smiles all around 😄👏
Shapes with 4 sides
23-01-2026
In maths this week, Reception have been exploring shapes with 4 sides. Children have identified the properties of the shapes by counting the sides and the vertices. We discussed a square having 4 equal sides is what makes it ‘special.’ Children then used their knowledge of shapes to sort shapes into 4 sides and not 4 sides, explaining where their shapes belonged and why.
Water Play 💦❤️🥰
22-01-2026
Winter weather didn’t stop our preschoolers from enjoying water play outside ❄️💦
The cold didn’t bother us as we splashed, poured, and laughed together, staying active and having fun ☀️🪣
Outdoor play in all seasons helps children build confidence, resilience, and a love for learning 😄🌿
Y2 Counting coins
08-01-2026
In Maths today, Y2 were busy recognising the value of each coin to count them using number patterns. They even compared amounts using greater than, less than and equal to.
Y1 Maths- repeating patterns.
06-11-2025
Today in Maths, we have been using 3D and 2D shapes, along with objects from outside, to make repeating patterns.
Y1 Maths- shape
09-10-2025
We have been looking at 3D shapes. Today, we were sorting the 3D shapes into different groups. We sorted them by colour, shape, shapes that stack and don’t stack, shapes with flat sides and curved sides.
Matching
18-09-2025
In Maths this week Reception have been learning about sorting and matching. We read a story called ‘A Pair of Socks’ and then played a matching game.
3D Shape
03-04-2025
In Reception, the children have been learning about 3D shapes. They built models using the different 3D shapes they have been learning about, whilst building the models the children talked about the properties of the 3D shapes.
Reception Maths – Capacity
26-03-2025
in Maths this week, Reception have been learning about capacity. They have been exploring filling containers using whilst using the vocabulary ”full, nearly full, empty, nearly empty’.
Number Doubles
21-03-2025
Reception have been doubling numbers within 10 using their fingers, dice and objects. They also had a go at writing the number sentence.
Composition to 5
18-03-2025
This morning in preschool we have been looking at different ways to make 5.
Investigating 7
11-03-2025
In Reception, the children played a game to investigate ways of making 7 with two parts.
Number Day
07-02-2025
Year 6 have been working on TTRS and solving interactive maths puzzles for Number Day.
Year 4 NSPCC Number Day!
07-02-2025
We have enjoyed taking part in NSPCC’s Number Day on TTRS today!
Partitioning five
22-01-2025
In Reception, the children have been exploring ways to partition 5 into different parts. They have been singing five little speckled frogs and they have also been hiding the frogs into the pool to find different way to partition 5.
Making numbers
13-01-2025
Today Year 1 were using Maths apparatus to make numbers between 10 and 20.
Pattern
13-12-2024
The children in Reception have been learning about pattern. They explored making patterns such as spiral, zig zag, lines and dots. They then went on to make AB patterns with their bodies and coloured objects.
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3D Shapes
29-11-2024
In Y1, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have learnt their names and sorted them into different groups.
❤️💛 Making patterns 💛❤️
15-11-2024
Today in preschool we used linking cubes to make patterns. ❤️💛
❤️🌈⭐️ Fun Friday in Early Years ⭐️🌈❤️
08-11-2024
What a lovely morning we have had in our early years department this morning. ⭐️
We have been using our water play equipment, we have been pouring, mixing and strengthening our developing gross and fine motor skills.
Learning about number two. 🌈
06-11-2024
Our focus this week in maths is all about the number two. ⭐️🌈🥰
Year 1 Maths
25-09-2024
This week in Year 1 we have been comparing amounts using symbols. We used cubes to prove that our number sentences were correct.
Y1- Maths
13-09-2024
In Maths this week, we have been learning to find one more. We used the 10s frame and linking cubes to represent what one more than our number would be.
