| Our vision is that students achieve their full learning potential for mathematics within an engaging, challenging and supportive environment. |
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| Department Aims: |
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To develop numerate students who achieve their individual learning potential. |
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To equip the young people in our care with the mathematical understanding necessary for them to achieve their future goals in life. |
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To nurture students' potential to become self motivated learners capable of solving problems through logical thinking and problem solving skills. |
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To develop pupils' abilities to apply mathematical skills in a creative, effective and efficient way. |
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To deliver our aims within an effective and engaging learning environment. |
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| Department Values: |
| To develop and maintain interest and enjoyment of mathematics by: |
| Making mathematics a creative and engaging subject in which students can be fully involved. |
| Providing a range of mathematical experiences, activities and stimuli for all students. |
| Making mathematics relevant to the real life interests and experiences that students have had or may call upon in the future. |
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| To empower pupils' to solve a range of mathematical problems, accurately and efficiently by: |
| Equipping pupils with the skills to apply their existing knowledge to new and challenging mathematical problems |
| Encouraging experimentation and the use of creative approaches to mathematics. |
| Fostering a disciplined approach to applying mathematical principles in a rigorous and accurate way |
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| To develop students' knowledge, skills, vocabulary and understanding of mathematics and to maximise their individual potential by: |
| Having high expectations and stretching students through challenging yet accessible work |
| Using mathematics as a means of communication, with an emphasis on the use of clear, precise and accurate mathematical language. |
| Understanding the value, relevance and applicability of mathematics to life outside of the classroom |
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| To foster a secure environment for teaching and learning mathematics by: |
| Adopting a consistent approach to learning with clear expectations of behaviour and standards of work |
| Developing good teacher / student and student / student relationships. |
| Inspiring confidence in students' mathematical ability |
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| To encourage and develop students' mathematical ability by: |
| Having a clear understanding of their strengths and helping them to focus on areas for their own development |
| Creating a positive and rewarding learning experience |
| Providing students with regular feedback, both verbal and written. |
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| Academic Achievements: |
| Key Stage 3 results have been consistently high for over recent years. |
| We have a significant number of pupils achieving the higher level of 6, 7 and 8. A significant number of our pupils improve by 2 or 3 Levels from kS2 to kS3. |
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| Key Stage 4 |
Over recent years, results at Key Stage 4 have continued to follow the same strong trend as Key Stage 3 results. Benchmarked against Yellis Predicted grades, the department performs very favourably against all other subjects.
The achievements of last year's pupils at GCSE Mathematics. 65% of the cohort achieved a grade A* to C and over double the national average attained the highest possible grade of A*. |
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