The Maths department enhance students’ lives in the study of maths by fulfilling the St Joseph’s Mission statement, Living, loving, learning through Christ. We strive to make learning enjoyable, inspire a love of maths and a thirst for knowledge in our students, developing them as independent and enquiring learners. In order to achieve our aim, we endeavor to:
● Ensure all students make outstanding progress, regardless of their starting point.
● Ensure all maths lessons include relevant challenges, pupil engagement and a focus on celebrating success.
● Provide all students with the opportunity for meaningful dialogue to take place in lessons.
● Promote independent
● Provide mathematical tasks to deepen their understanding by representing concepts using objects, pictures, symbols and words.
● Help all students develop into creative, analytical and independent thinkers.
● Encourage all pupils to develop skills to enable them to
● Enable all students to develop mathematical language to strengthen conceptual understanding enabling students to explain and reason.
● Provide a supportive, engaging and challenging learning environment to help students achieve their very best.
● Provide students with opportunities to develop mathematical thinking skills and develop their confidence when problem solving.
● Prepare students for the world of Higher Education and work by guiding them to successful assessment at GCSE and raising their aspirations.
Topics covered in each year group
We follow the Mastery Program for Learning KS3
We follow the Edexcel 2 year Program of Learning for KS4.
. In years 7,8 and 9 students have 6 lessons a fortnight. In year 10, they have 7 lessons a fortnight and Y11 have 8 lessons.
Homework tasks are set on- line through SPARX Maths.
Year 7
The Year 7 curriculum is delivered in 15 Units building on prior learning at KS2 and links into key skills and knowledge needed at GCSE. All students cover the same Units, all units having a Support, a Core and an Extension element. Enrichment and problem solving are a regular feature of learning.
Autumn 1&2:
● Unit 1 – Sequences- we start with this to ensure students understand that learning in maths is sequenced.
● Unit 2 – Understand and use algebraic notation
● Unit 3 – Equality and equivalence
● Unit 4 – Place value and ordering integers and decimals
- Unit 5 – Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 6 – Solving problems with addition and subtraction
● Unit 7 – Solving problems with multiplication and division
● Unit 8 – Fractions and percentages of amounts
● Unit 9 – Operations and equations with directed number
- Unit 10 – Addition and subtraction of fractions
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 11 – Constructing, measuring and using geometric notation
● Unit 12 – Developing geometry reasoning
- Unit 13 – Developing number sense
● Unit 14 – Sets and probability - Unit 15 – Prime numbers and proof
● Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the start and end of each unit and 2 assessments per year on current and prior learning
Year 8
The Year 8 curriculum is covered in 17 Units building on prior learning at KS2, Y7 and links into key skills and knowledge needed at GCSE. All students cover the same Units, all units having a Support, a Core and an Extension element. Enrichment and problem solving are a regular feature of learning
Autumn 1&2:
● Unit 1 – Ratio and scale
● Unit 2 – Multiplicative change
● Unit 3 – Multiplying and dividing fractions
● Unit 4 – Working in the Cartesian plane
- Unit 5 – Representing data
● Unit 6 – Representations: Tables and probability
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 7 – Brackets, equations and inequalities
● Unit 8 – Algebraic techniques: Sequences
● Unit 9 – Algebraic techniques: Indices
● Unit 10 – Developing number: Fractions and percentages
- Unit 11 – Developing number: Standard index form
● Unit 12 – Developing number: Number sense
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 13 – Angles in parallel lines and polygons
● Unit 14 –Area of trapezia and circles
- Unit 15 – Developing geometry: Line symmetry and reflection
● Unit 16 – Reasoning with data: The data handling cycle - Unit 17 – Reasoning with data: Measures of location
● Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the start and end of each unit and 2 assessments per year on current and prior learning
Year 9
The Year 9 curriculum is covered in 17 Units building on prior learning at KS2, Y7 and Y8, learning links into key skills and knowledge needed at GCSE. All students cover the same Units, all units having a Support, a Core and an Extension element. Enrichment and problem solving are a regular feature of learning
Autumn 1&2:
● Unit 1 – Straight line graphs
● Unit 2 – Forming and solving equations
- Unit 3 – Testing conjectures
● Unit 4 – Three dimensional shapes - Unit 5 – Construction and congruencySpring 1&2:
● Unit 6 – Number
● Unit 7 –Using percentages - Unit 9 – Maths and money
● Unit 9 – Deduction - Unit 10 – Rotation and translation
● Unit 11 – Pythagoras theorem
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 12 – Enlargement and similarity
● Unit 13 – Solving ratio and proportion problems
● Unit 14 –Rates
- Unit 15 – Probability
- Unit 16 – Algebraic representation
● Unit 17 – Trigonometry
● Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the start and end of each unit and 2 assessments per year on current and prior learning
Year 10
The year 10 curriculum builds on skills and knowledge obtained in KS3. In year 10, students either follow the Higher GCSE Course consisting of 19 Units or the Foundation GCSE Course consisting of 20 Units.
Higher
Autumn 1&2:
- Unit 1 – Number
● Unit 2 – Algebra
● Unit 3 – Statistics
● Unit 4 –Fractions, ratio and proportion
● Unit 5 – Angles and Trigonometry
Spring 1&2:
- Unit 6 – Graphs
● Unit 7 –Area and volume
● Unit 8 – Transformations and construction
● Unit 9 – Equations and inequalities
● Unit 10 – ProbabilitySummer 1& 2: - Unit 11 –Multiplicative reasoning
● Unit 12 – Similarity and congruence
● Unit 13 – Further trigonometry
● Unit 14 – Further statistics
● Unit 15- Equations and graphs - Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the end of each unit and 2 assessments per year on current and prior learning
Foundation
Autumn 1&2:
- Unit 1 – Number
● Unit 2 – Algebra
● Unit 3 – Statistics
● Unit 4 –Fractions and percentages
● Unit 5 – Equations, inequalities and sequences
● Unit 6 – Angles
● Unit 7 –Averages and range
● Unit 8 – Perimeter, area and volume #1
● Unit 9 – Graphs
● Unit 10 – Transformations
● Unit 11 –Ratio and proportion
Spring 1&2:
- Unit 6 – Angles
● Unit 7 –Averages and range
● Unit 8 – Perimeter, area and volume #1
● Unit 9 – Graphs
● Unit 10 – Transformations
● Unit 11 –Ratio and proportion - Unit 12 – Right angled triangle
● Unit 13 – ProbabilitySummer 1& 2: - Unit 14 – Multiplicative reasoning
- Unit 15 – Construction, loci and bearings
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the end of each unit and 2 assessments per year on current and prior learning
Year 11
The year 11 curriculum coverers the remaining units and exam techniques.
Higher
Autumn 1&2:
● Unit 16 – Circle Theorems
● Unit 17– Further algebra
- Unit 18 – Vector Geometry
● Unit 19 –Graphs and Proportion
Spring 1&2:
● Exam technique
Summer 1& 2:
● Past Papers
● Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the end of each unit and mock exams on all prior learning
Foundation
Autumn 1&2:
● Unit 16 – Quadratic equations and graphs
● Unit 17– Perimeter, area and volume #2
- Unit 18 – Fractions, indices and standard form
● Unit 19 –Congruence, similarity and vectors - Unit 20 –More algebraSpring 1&2:
● Exam technique
Summer 1& 2:
● Past Papers
● Consolidation and Revision
Assessment: students have knowledge checks at the end of each unit and mock exams on all prior learning
Resources
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