Maths

Welcome to the subject page for Maths

You’ll find key information including staffing, curriculum plans and contact details on this page.

Curriculum Intent

We are committed to providing high quality maths teaching for all students.

Maths lessons should:
•   Develop understanding
•   Give students to reason, use, apply and explain
•   Support students to develop resilience when facing difficult problems
•   Prepare the students for maths in real life

Maths is all around us in everything that we do. Understanding numbers is as fundamental as knowing how to read. Students need procedural understanding-how something works, but they also need to understand why something works. Then they can apply this knowledge to formulate and solve problems, which is a key area of GCSE Maths.

We follow the Discovering Maths Mastery Curriculum at KS3 (Years 7-9). Teachers reinforce an expectation that all students are capable of achieving high standards in Maths. Differentiation is achieved by exploring topics more deeply and through individual support and intervention. Lessons are crafted to foster deep conceptual and procedural knowledge. Practice and consolidation play a central role. Questioning in class and regular assessment are used to test understanding and to identify those requiring intervention. Understanding does not come immediately-it may take several years to understand a concept. That is why our KS4 Curriculum uses spiralling-the students come back to and reinforce their understanding of a concept each year.

We want our students to see that mathematics can help them better understand and describe the world around them. We encourage them to see maths as a way of thinking rather than a collection of facts.

At Clyst Vale we are following the 2 Year Edexcel Maths Programme which starts in Year 10 and finishes in Year 11.

Year 10 – sets 1-3 are doing Higher Tier and sets 4-7 are doing Foundation Tier.
Year 11 – sets 1-3 are doing Higher and sets 4-7 are doing Foundation.

Click the buttons below to view a list of the main topics that we will be teaching each tier over the coming year.