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08/07/23

“It was amazing. I loved her sharing her story with us. It was really inspiring!” Thank you, for inspiring our Year 6 pupils to think about their own & others’ differences in a whole new light pic.twitter.com/hF2vIEgL3k

08/07/23

Old police station, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. Our chair recently gave two lessons to Y6 on their neighbourhood's past. This is the site of their school. pic.twitter.com/RvG1wsz2cO

08/07/23

Old police station, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. Our chair recently gave two lessons to Y6 on their neighbourhood's past. This is the site of their school. pic.twitter.com/RvG1wsz2cO

07/07/23

We are Outstanding again 🎉🎉🎉 Take a look at our outstanding Ofsted Report here:https://t.co/E110iKFn9D pic.twitter.com/wqvKjn0woD

05/07/23

“It was amazing. I loved her sharing her story with us. It was really inspiring!” Thank you, for inspiring our Year 6 pupils to think about their own & others’ differences in a whole new light pic.twitter.com/hF2vIEgL3k

18/06/23

Thanks to everyone who came to our Summer Fayre at the weekend & to all of the organisers. A lovely day 🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/S1NIsVSSdl

22/05/23

So much fun at our PTA Fun Run on Sunday . Congrats to the staff runners & welcome to our new Head of Academy Ms Liddicoat 🎉 pic.twitter.com/6BVDpIAL58

03/04/23

Last Afternoon Tea for the Spring Term. It was a special one to bid Mrs Johnson farewell. pic.twitter.com/rKhUWRayy1

31/03/23

Have I told you, you are creative? Have I told you, you are brave? Have I told you, you Kind?Have I told you, you are smart?Have I told you never to give up? Mrs Johnson's leaving message to the children in assembly. pic.twitter.com/FIdb21apGn

21/03/23

Reception enjoying their learning working scientifically - testing which materials is magnetic. pic.twitter.com/7nMI5iG4Si

24/02/23

What an incredible atmosphere in HPAD this morning! Fitness circuit with Frederick Afrifa, International sprinter and two time national gold medalist. Thank you Sports for schools and parents for the sponsorship. pic.twitter.com/F4cELHB2Jh

19/02/23

We are looking forward to seeing our children's expression when they see the playground tomorrow. Thank you parents and to Southwark for the CGS grant. You made this possible. . pic.twitter.com/J7mhNAKHJ9

08/02/23

Happy Children’s Mental Health week! Parent workshop and year 3/4 workshops taking place in school this week pic.twitter.com/AjcKCfngIL

01/02/23

Year 4 sharing their super powers of being resilient with us today. Such beautiful voices pic.twitter.com/lqVrmrFBJa

01/02/23

Year 2 and 4 loved their science experience in the dome! pic.twitter.com/AaLDu3PoKH

21/01/23

We joined Michael, our lollipop man to celebrate a milestone birthday. The children presented a special card and gift to Michael for doing a wonderful Job, helping to keep our community safe. pic.twitter.com/4Tk5JQ19Hp

21/01/23

Spanish club shared their learning so far with SLT. We loved their enthusiasm and the progress the children have made so far learning another language! Well done 👏 pic.twitter.com/FfBc8BGvOt

21/01/23

Beautiful dragons designed by Reception children this week for Chinese New Year celebration. Well done to Willow and Chestnut class.#harrisfed pic.twitter.com/kKvZZm8t0k

21/01/23

Afternoon tea with powerful learners and powerful teacher of the week. Always great hearing all about the incredible learning happening in all year groups. pic.twitter.com/N5pBYi4cR1

18/01/23

Excellent CPD on using collaborative approach in teaching. We loved the coaching session today! pic.twitter.com/0eulnqWHK9

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Mathematics

At Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich, we recognise maths as an essential life skill, and we are committed to ensuring that all children have a positive and meaningful experience of the subject. We aim to present maths as a challenging, exciting and relevant subject in order to promote a confident attitude.

As a whole school, we follow the mastery approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics, our rationale our approach to teaching mathematics lay within the research on the White Rose scheme, as well as the 2014 National Curriculum, which states:

  • Most pupils move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace
  • Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged
  • Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding

 

In our Early Years, we use an approach to mathematics teaching based on White Rose. The principles are based on a concrete – pictorial – abstract – cycle of learning. There are many reasons that this approach develops understanding so well, but one key factor is its step-by-step approach that can be used at home or in the classroom. Young children are happy playing with blocks or drawing pictures. But they can find number symbols like 5 + 2 = 7 mystifying!

The mastery method begins by allowing children to start learning about maths by playing with real objects, blocks or cut-out pictures. They build confidence with the basic ideas of adding and taking away. There is then a second stage of drawing pictures representing the objects. And only later do they gradually start to add numbers to their drawings...

Beyond the early years our children will build on their learning using a range of strategies tailored to our children. This is underpinned by highly visual and concrete approaches to mathematics and is fully aligned to the expectations set out in the National Curriculum 2014. This approach has a strong base of evidence to show it really develops knowledge and understanding for all pupils including our most able.

Children must be exposed to different representations of mathematical concepts in order to embed understanding, as well as manipulating known number facts through missing number scenarios. There is a strong emphasis on maths talk and learning key mental basic skills, such as number bonds, multiplication facts and the inverses. The expectations of the National Curriculum have changed and whilst it is important to challenge all pupils, we must also ensure that children are making progress towards mastery level by having opportunities to reason about number and recognise patterns and relationships; which will only be the case if pupils are taught how to develop these skills. Our maths approach is supported further by the use of White Rose resources. 

To support parents' understanding, we run workshops about calculating methods for parents. Please see our diary of events for details and dates. Sometimes, the methods of calculating we teach are different from those parents and carers used when they were at school.  If you have any questions about mathematics at Harris Primary East Dulwich, please do speak to your class teacher.

We use Timestable Rockstar to support our teaching of Mathematics at Harris Primary East Dulwich. If you want to find out more about Timestable rockstar, you might find the following links useful.  

https://ttrockstars.com/page/features

https://www.toddingtonstgeorge.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/A-Parents-Guide-To-Times-Table-Rocksatrs.pdf