Courtenay Gardens Primary School has a strong focus on developing well rounded and confident maths learners who develop strong numeracy skills to take with them out into the world. We have a whole school focus on improving mathematics results and numeracy understandings.

We firmly believe that every child can achieve success when given sufficient time and assistance. As dedicated educators, we are committed to achieving this goal through our instructional model and sequential planning of maths skills and understandings from prep to year 6. This includes a reflective process for the continuous monitoring and assessment of student progress, to understand the learning needs of our students. We closely track our students by using formative and summative assessment tasks for all children on a regular basis. Year level moderation in teaching teams ensures that we are planning and teaching explicitly for the needs of our children. Each teaching team design lesson sequences to cater for student learning in line with our instructional model and aim to develop the four proficiencies of maths (understanding, fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills) in number, algebra, space, measurement, statistics and probability.

At Courtenay Gardens, we ensure that we keep our teaching staff up to date with best practice in mathematics education and provide professional development to all staff to ensure that students working at all levels of understanding are well equipped to put their maths knowledge to use.
We deliver this through:

• Peer modelling and peer observation
• Regular professional development sessions at staff meetings
• Teacher self-evaluation and reflection
• Student feedback to teaching staff
• A dedicated mathematics curriculum team that represents all year levels.