Maths at Beckfoot Allerton

We are proud to be a Mathematics Mastery school and have been following the programme since 2022.   

We teach maths every day and each lesson follows a similar lesson with six parts.  There is a ‘do now’ where children have the opportunity to retrieve prior knowledge they have learnt such as number facts or times tables.  The teacher then introduces some new learning and explains this using concrete objects or visuals.  The pupils then have an activity to tackle and talk about with their partner at their table before having their understanding deepened further with the teacher.  We ensure that we waste no moment of learning time, as all transitions have chants where children will practise counting or other number facts.  Next comes their independent task where children will have time to work by themselves whilst the teacher checks for any errors or misconceptions before the plenary at the end of the session.   

We host maths workshops several times a year for families and also send out optional homework booklets for children to complete at home which explains how your child has been taught maths in school. 

As well as the daily maths lesson, we also have maths meetings three to five times a week.  This is to keep important aspects of maths at the forefront of our minds that can be easily forgotten, such as the calendar, telling the time, times tables, shape, interpreting graphs and anything else that the teacher decides.  These sessions are much shorter and feature songs, chants and the odd rap here and there.  The maths meetings are pacey and joyful too!  

If you’re interested in finding out more about mathematics mastery or our maths curriculum overviews, please click on the links to find out more. 

Curriculum Map (Reception – Yr6)
Maths Vocabulary List (Reception – Yr6)
Progression in calculations