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 endeavour 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 a 5 year scheme of Learning
We follow the Edexcel 5 year Scheme of Work. In years 7,8 and 9 students have 4 lessons a week. In year 10, they have 5 lessons a week and Y11 have 5 lessons plus registration time each day where they have their maths teacher as their form tutor and systematically revise each unit of the GCSE Course. Homework tasks are set on- line through Hegarty Maths. We also using SENECA learning, a free online learning platform, for revision.
Year 7
The Year 7 curriculum is delivered in 10 Units building on prior learning at KS2 and links into key skills 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 – Analysing and Displaying Data
● Unit 2 – Number Sense
● Unit 3 – Expressions, functions and formulae
● Unit 4 – Decimals and Measure
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 5 – Fractions
● Unit 6 – Probability
● Unit 7 – Ration and Proportion
● Unit 8 – Lines and Angles
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 9 – Sequences and Graphs
● Unit 10 – Transformations
● Consolidation and Revision
Year 8
The Year 8 curriculum is covered in 10 Units building on prior learning at KS2 and links into key skills 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 – Number
● Unit 2 – Area and Volume
● Unit 3 – Statistics, Charts and Graphs
● Unit 4 – Expressions and Equations
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 5 – Real Life Graphs
● Unit 6 –Decimals and Ratio
● Unit 7 – Lines and Angles
● Unit 8 – Calculating with Fractions
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 9 – Straight Line Graphs
● Unit 10 –Percentages, Fractions and Decimals
● Consolidation and Revision
Year 9
The year 9 curriculum builds on skills and knowledge obtained in year 7 and 8. In year 9, 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
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 3 – Statistics, Charts and Graphs
● Unit 4 –Fractions, Percentages, Decimals and Ratio
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 5 – Geometry and Trigonometry
● Unit 6 – Coordinate Geometry
● Unit 7 –Accuracy, 2-D and 3-D Geometry
● Consolidation and Revision
Foundation
Autumn 1&2
● Unit 1 – Number
● Unit 2 – Algebra #1
Spring 1 & 2
● Unit 3 – Statistics, Charts and Graphs
● Unit 4 –Fractions, Percentages and Decimals
Summer 1&2
 Unit 5 –Algebra #2
 Unit 6 –Shape and Angles
 Unit 7 – Statistics and sampling
 Consolidation and Revision
Year 10
The year 10 curriculum builds on skills and knowledge obtained in year 7, 8 and 9. 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 4 – Fractions, Percentages, Decimals and Ratio
● Unit 5 – Geometry and Trigonometry
● Unit 6 – Coordinate Geometry
● Unit 7 –Accuracy, 2-D and 3-D Geometry
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 8 – Transformations
● Unit 9 – Algebra
● Unit 10 – Probability
● Unit 11- Multiplicative Reasoning
● Unit 12 –Congruence
Summer 1& 2:
● Unit 13 – Trigonometry
● Unit 14 – Statistics
● Unit 15 –Graphs
● Consolidation and Revision
Foundation
Autumn 1&2:
 Unit 4 – Fractions, Percentages and Decimals
 Unit 5 –Algebra
 Unit 6 –Shape and Angles
 Unit 7 – Statistics and sampling
Spring 1&2:
 Unit 8 – Area and Volume
 Unit 9- Graphs
 Unit 10 – Transformations
 Unit 11 – Ratio and Proportion
 Unit 12 – Geometry and Trigonometry
Summer 1& 2:
 Unit 13 – Probability
 Unit 14 – Multiplicative Reasoning
 Unit 15 –Geometry
 Consolidation and Revision
Year 11
The year 9 curriculum aims to build on skills and knowledge obtained in year s7, 8, 9 and 10In year 9, 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 15 – Algebra
● Unit 16 – Circle Theorems
Spring 1&2:
● Unit 17 – Algebra
● Unit 18 – Vector Geometry
● Unit 19 –Graphs and Proportion
Summer 1& 2:
● Past Papers
● Consolidation and Revision
Foundation
Autumn 1&2
● Unit 15 – Geometry
● Unit 16 – Algebra #1
Spring 1 & 2
● Unit 17 – Area and Volume
● Unit 18 – Number
● Unit 19 –Geometry #2
Summer 1&2
 Unit 20 –Algebra #2
 Past Papers
 Consolidation and Revision
Subject leader MrsJ.Gatley
Email address Jennifer.Gatley@sjchs.uk