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At Richmond Hill we grow independence, build communication and believe you can achieve your personal goals.

1: Maths at Richmond Hill

At Richmond Hill we believe that maths is an important area for all our learners. Not only do the pupils gain enjoyment from it but it provides important skills and opportunities for independence. Maths is all around us in our everyday lives and being given the opportunity to explore, as well as use and apply concepts such as number, shape, space and measure provides crucial preparation for Adulthood.

Our children will access a broad range of activities and enrichment appropriate to their developmental needs, interests and personal goals.The learning journeys for our pupils differ greatly and therefore each individual receives a personalised, accessible, age appropriate and motivating approach.

We recognise that Maths for our children may range from exploring materials in their environment to following a basic sequence such as parts of their daily routine. Furthermore some children might be able to understand quantities and in turn use numbers functionally, to support independence and develop mathematical life skills.

Pupils with severe learning difficulties will have difficulty generalising skills to new contexts. Pupils require repeated opportunities to consolidate a new skill in one “experience” and then transfer this skill across a range of different “experiences”.  

Pupils at Richmond Hill have identified language and auditory processing deficits that has an impact on their ability to learn language and math concepts in order to solve problems. Pupils need support to understand receptive and expressive communication which can impact their ability express what they don’t understand or show how they solved problems. Pupils often find it challneging learning language aspects of math which can cause confusion about terminology and following verbal explanations.  As a school, we use a universal approach through visual support and using simple language when asking questions, giving directions, presenting concepts, and offering explanations.

 

 

For those pupils within the Roots pathway and not yet working at a subject specific stage of development Learning to Learn and Thinking and problem solving skills curriculum intent documents will be used to support early learning:

 

Maths curriculum map example

 

Learning to learn

Early maths skills

Subject specific

 

Sensory Experience

Purposeful

Skill Development

Functional Skills

Intentional Applied Skills

Number

 

To explore one to one correspondence with familiar objects/toys.

To experience actions, movement and touch linked to counting

 

To attend to an adult sequencing objects.

 

To explore movement and body awareness with familiar songs,rhymes and resources.

To explore sensory materials in the context of quantity.

To experience quantities of actions or objects in a familiar context e.g. attention skills

To experience  object exchange in a mathematical context.

To experience making choices when in a practical situation e.g. shopping

 

To complete one to one correspondence activities with familiar objects/toys

To sort & match objects to photos.

To develop choice making skills using AAC. To group objects without classification e.g makes 2 random piles of objects.

To experience differences in quantity

To experience number rhymes

To explore coins

To explore a range of own marks and signs and ascribe mathematical meaning

To organise objects in a line as a prerequisite to counting

To touch count objects in a regular pattern.

To engage in counting like behaviour such as making sounds, pointing to or saying some numbers in sequence

To be able to exchange a coin for an object e.g. 5 Currant Buns.

To use object exchange in a familiar and practical setting e.g. shopping.

To make a choice using printed materials such as visual shopping lists

To make a choice from two items in the context of shopping

 

To recognise and sequence numbers and quantities 1-5

To count using a one to one correspondence method such as touching each object.

To stop counting when reached the end of the group (cardinal number)

To engage with number rhymes using resources, fingers, AAC etc.

Pupils respond to and join in with familiar number rhyme

To understand early addition and subtraction (one more and one less)

To understand language of a difference in quantity e.g. lots, more, same.

To respond to questions around number by counting their objects.

To understand the concept of 0.

To match and sort coins

To count out coins using 1p and £1

To experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals

To use AAC to request a quantity of objects in a practical situations e.g. cafe.

To make choices using printed materials such as visual shopping lists

To select from two or more items in the context of shopping

To use knowledge and understanding of numbers up to 10 to add, subtract, order  and subitise.

To count forwards and backwards from 10.

To recognise,write/type numbers to 10, with some accuracy.

To use a variety of resources to solve simple addition and subtraction problems.

To create groups of objects to a given number up to 5, e.g. 5 groups of 2 objects

To estimate quantities to 5

To use and understand ordinal numbers to 3

Pupils respond to and join in with number rhymes and songs

To understand number amounts 1-10 by matching numerals and quantities.

To count out a smaller number from a larger  group to show understanding of cardinal number.

To count and order numbers forwards and backwards beyond 20

To understand and recall number facts including one more, one less, number bonds, doubles and halves.

To create groups of objects to a given number beyond 5

To understand number bonds to 5, 10 and 20.

To estimate quantities beyond 5, then count to check

To understand ordinal numbers to 10

To subtract a one digit number from 10.

To understand and use a range of addition and subtraction methods to solve simple problems., using symbols (+, -, =)

To understand place value up 100

To count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10, 100.

to solve one step number problems to 20 practically (+,-)

To solve simple addition and subtraction sums, using resources e.g. cubes, Numicon

To add and subtract one digit from two digit

To understand doubles and halves to 20

To partition and combine numbers using apparatus

To solve one step multiplication and division problems using arrays, object and pictures

To recognise, find and write a description of objects, quantities and shapes.

To solve division and multiplication word problems.

To recognise and name coins and notes.

To recognise the larger number from 2 given numbers

To demonstrate subitising by recognising the number of objects in a small group without counting e.g. dice patterns.

To record simple sorting activities using pictorial representation on simple diagrams e.g. Venn, Carroll

To use a Venn or Carroll diagram to answer simple questions.

To organise/ record pictorial data on simple charts/table where one symbol represents one unit e.g. pictogram, block graphs.

 

 

 

Extended maths- for some of our pupils in the Leaves pathway it may be appropriate to support skills development through both the intentional applied skills strand and outcomes from the Primary stars curriculum as outlined below. Implementation of learning will be inline with pupils' needs, interests and motivations.

 

(BLOCK 1)

 (BLOCK 2)

(BLOCK 3)

                               (BLOCK 4)

Number: Place Value

(within 10)

Number: Addition and Subtraction

(within 10)

Geometry: Shape

Number: Place Value

(within 20)

• Sort objects.

• Count objects.

• Represent objects.

• Count, read & write forwards from any number 0 -10. • Count, read & write backwards from any number 0- 10. • Count one more.

• Count one less.

• One to one correspondence to start to compare groups. • Compare groups using language such as equal,  more/greater, less/fewer.

• Introduce = , > and < symbols.

• Compare numbers.

• Order groups of objects.

• Order numbers.

• Ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd ….).

• The number line.

• Part whole model.

• Addition symbol.

• Fact families – Addition facts.

• Find number bonds for numbers within 10.

• Systematic methods for number bonds within 10.

• Number bonds to 10.

• Compare number bonds.

• Addition: Adding together.

• Addition: Adding more.

• Finding a part.

• Subtraction: Taking away, how many left? Crossing out. • Subtraction: Taking away, how many left? Introducing the  subtraction symbol.

• Subtraction: Finding a part, breaking apart.

• Fact families – 8 facts.

• Subtraction: Counting back.

• Subtraction: Finding the difference.

• Comparing addition and subtraction statements a + b > c. • Comparing addition and subtraction statements a + b > c + d.

• Recognise & name 3D shapes. • Sort 3D shapes.

• Recognise & name 2D shapes. • Sort 2D shapes.

• Patterns with 3D & 2D shapes.

• Count forwards and backwards and write numbers  to 20 in numerals and words.

• Numbers from 11 to 20.

• Tens and ones.

• Count one more and one less.

• Compare groups of objects.

• Compare numbers.

• Order groups of objects.

• Order numbers.

• Count to ten, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0  or 1, or from any given number.

• Count, read and write numbers to 10 in numerals and  words.

• Given a number, identify one more or one less. • Identify and represent numbers using objects and  pictorial representations including the number line, and  use the language of: equal to, more than, less than  (fewer), most, least.

• Represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts  within 10.

• Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving  addition (+), subtraction (-) and equals (=) signs.

• Add and subtract one digit numbers to 10, including zero. • Solve one step problems that involve addition and subtraction,  using concrete objects and pictorial representations and missing  number problems.

• Recognise and name common 2-D  shapes, including: (e.g. rectangles  (including squares), circles and 

triangles).

• Recognise and name common 3-D  shapes, including: (e.g. cuboids 

(including cubes), pyramids and 

spheres).

• Count to twenty, forwards and backwards,  beginning with 0 or 1, from any given number.

• Count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals  and words.

• Given a number, identify one more or one less. • Identify and represent numbers using objects and  pictorial representations including the number line,  and use the language of: equal to, more than, less  than (fewer), most, least.

 

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