Maths at St Margaret's
At St. Margaret’s we embrace the mastery approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics, where children are taught to become competent and independent mathematicians.
We have high aspirations for all learners, rejecting the idea that some pupils ‘just can’t do maths’. As such, pupils are taught through whole-class interactive teaching, where the focus is on all pupils working together on the same lesson content at the same time. This ensures that all can master concepts before moving to the next part of the curriculum sequence. Differentiation is through depth and not breadth. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly are challenged through rich and sophisticated problems that encourage them to explore a concept in greater depth, reason about their learning or make new connections.