At St John Rigby Catholic Primary School, we strive to deliver a mastery curriculum, which is accessible to all and will maximise the development of every child’s ability and academic achievement. Our pupils receive creative and engaging lessons, allowing them to make rich connections, across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. We firmly believe that the recipe for success is high quality first-wave teaching in Mathematics, which is central to the life of our happy, caring school. 

At St. John Rigby Catholic Primary school, we foster positive can do attitudes and we promote the fact that ‘We can all do maths!’ We believe all children can achieve in mathematics, and teach for secure and deep understanding of mathematical concepts through manageable steps. We use mistakes and misconceptions as an essential part of learning and provide challenge through rich and sophisticated problems. At our school, the majority of children will be taught the content from their year group only. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems before any acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding through additional practice, before moving on. Children will spend time becoming true masters of content, applying and being creative with new knowledge in multiple ways. 

We aim for all pupils to: 

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics so that they develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. 

•   be able to solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of problems with increasing sophistication, including in unfamiliar contexts and to model real-life scenarios  

• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and develop and present a justification, argument or proof using mathematical language. 

•  have an appreciation of number and number operations, which enables mental calculations and written procedures to be performed efficiently, fluently and accurately to be successful in mathematics.