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17/06/25

🍭Year 6 Ice Lolly Sale 🍭 Wednesday 16th June at dismissal, Year 6 pupils will be selling ice lollies in the playground to help raise funds for their end-of-year celebrations. pic.twitter.com/v8uShtHgta

07/06/25

Time for Team Tech!🧐❤️💪 pic.twitter.com/EMaD8ftcxF

07/06/25

We’ve had so much fun on Jacob’s ladder!🪜 pic.twitter.com/Yk5ZRZMGxJ

07/06/25

First stop - 3G swing!!! pic.twitter.com/nNvl2SXIU5

07/06/25

While the others were shelter building, we were problem solving🤔🕵️🕵️‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/lVFTUicicZ

06/06/25

Relays on the field 🏃‍♀️

06/06/25

First stop-shelter building!⛺️ pic.twitter.com/NC3uxrjN9W

06/06/25

We’re off! Year 5 are so excited to arrive at Kingswood!💙❤️ pic.twitter.com/OQ3v25LmKT

04/06/25

📚 🥐 You are invited to our new event!! Join us for Reading on the roof terrace 🍎📚 pic.twitter.com/hwZJHNnotO

02/04/25

🐣 🐰 More Easter bonnets 🥚 🪺 pic.twitter.com/i1cA1QrOok

02/04/25

🐰 The Easter bunny hopped by to see everyone 🐇 pic.twitter.com/Arzs0vhlFf

02/04/25

🐰 🐇 The children had a special visitor today 🐰 🐇 pic.twitter.com/XoTY9HwwHN

02/04/25

🐣 🐰 More Easter bonnets 🥚 🪺 pic.twitter.com/i1cA1QrOok

02/04/25

🐥 🥚 The children loved showing off their Easter bonnets in our Easter parade today 🐰 🐣 pic.twitter.com/N5kvSoKdL9

02/04/25

We are on a roll with blue tokens in Tesco stores for our Community Hub! Don’t forget to ask for your tokens to support us! pic.twitter.com/MGN1T8YP7q

31/03/25

Great start to a “Lovely Day” at HPAPW…we love a bit of music to feed the soul! 🎶🌞 pic.twitter.com/aoe5qE6rGT

28/03/25

Year 3 Warblers doing a brilliant job with their 9 times tables this morning. Excellent work! ✖️9️⃣🤩 pic.twitter.com/ry0AZSZXlf

27/03/25

It was amazing to see so many of our families come together for our first Iftar to break fast as a community. Some delicious dishes were shared and opportunities for prayer. So honoured and humbled to be able to celebrate our amazing community! Looking forward to next year! 🕌☪️ pic.twitter.com/Ol6iVO0ZWr

19/03/25

This week is British Sign language week, we have been very excited to learn our letters and seasons in BSL in our online lesson! pic.twitter.com/AphD34vr0v

19/03/25

💕🌸 Don’t forget to wear PINK on Friday to support Cancer Research 💕🌸 pic.twitter.com/yDYDCD805y

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Maths

In Years 1 and 2, we use White Rose Maths, which allows for depth of understanding in the key concepts of Maths. Maths teaching is enhanced across the school through the use of regular maths meetings, interventions and boosters which allow for rehearsal and consolidation of maths facts. Children are provided with a log in to Mathletics to supplement their Maths learning at home.

As with Key Stage 1, we use White Rose Maths, which allows for depth of understanding in the key concepts of Maths. Maths teaching is enhanced across the school through the use of regular maths meetings, interventions and boosters which allow for rehearsal and consolidation of maths facts. Children are provided with a log in to Mathletics to supplement their Maths learning at home. Children in Key Stage 2 also have access to Times Table Rock Stars to support them in developing rapid recall of key mutliplication and division facts.

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

Paul Halmos

 

Intent: Introduction, Vision and Philosophy 

At Harris Primary Academy Purley Way, we believe that children from all backgrounds can succeed in Mathematics. Our focus is on raising standards – working together to show what pupils are capable of and to find effective ways to enable every child to succeed.

We aim for our children to study the different areas in the Mathematics curriculum and develop a deep understanding of these areas using a mastery approach. This means that we are teaching children to have a deep conceptual understanding rather than teaching so that children can just get a correct answer – they need to be able to explain how they got an answer, why that answer is right, and what might happen if a variable is changed.

Three key features of our Mathematics teaching include:

  • High expectations for every child
  • More time on fewer topics
  • Problem-solving at the heart

We aim to embed a deep understanding of Mathematics by employing the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach across all phases - using concrete materials (e.g. objects) and pictorial representations (e.g. pictures, diagrams) alongside the use of numbers and symbols. This supports pupils to develop a deeper conceptual understanding of the underlying mathematical structure; enabling children to master the concepts taught and develop a deep understanding of Mathematics.

Maths

We emphasise:
 

Language – communicating ideas, proof, clarity and development of mathematical concepts.

Thinking – questioning and task design to promote mathematical thinking.

Understanding – using a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to deepen conceptual understanding, and making connections to previous learning, to other subjects and to the ‘real world’.

Problem Solving – to be mathematical is to solve mathematical problems. Problem solving is both why and how we learn mathematics.

We aim to ensure that all children:
 

  • become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that they have conceptual understanding and can recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems.
  • reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
  • can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.