White Rose Maths

To facilitate a mastery approach to Maths, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme. The White Rose schemes of learning are designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning, as well as to support the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum. Multiple representations for all! Objects, pictures, words, numbers and symbols are everywhere. The mastery approach incorporates all of these to help children explore and demonstrate mathematical ideas, enrich their learning experience and deepen understanding. Together, these elements help cement knowledge so pupils truly understand what they’ve learnt. All pupils, when introduced to a key new concept, should have the opportunity to build competency in this topic by taking this approach.

Pupils are encouraged to physically represent mathematical concepts. Objects and pictures are used to demonstrate and visualise abstract ideas, alongside numbers and symbols. By following a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach, children have the opportunity to use concrete objects and manipulatives to help them understand and explain what they are doing. Through pictorial representations, children then build on this concrete approach, which can then be used to reason and solve problems. Abstract concepts follow, with the foundations firmly laid, children can move to an abstract approach using numbers and key concepts with confidence. Students are constantly exposed and immersed in developing their vocabulary acquisition. This key mathematical language increases student’s knowledge and understanding of not only the specific matter they are currently studying, but of the world they live in.

Concrete – children should have the opportunity to use concrete objects to help them understand what they are doing.

Pictorial – alongside this, children should use pictorial representations. These representations can then be used to help reason and solve problems.

Abstract – both concrete and pictorial representations should support children’s understanding of abstract methods.

	Maths Policy 2025 DRAFT	[pdf 223KB]
	SMA Maths Curriculum Overview 2025-2026	[pdf 491KB]