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Who/What is White Rose Maths?
A trusted scheme of learning used by over 80% of primary and secondary schools in England
White Rose Maths (part of the Trinity family of academies, schools and initiatives) is an organisation that brings together a team of highly experienced and passionate teachers and mathematicians who are committed to supporting pupils, teachers and parents with maths education. They offer extensive training, guidance, help and support with mathematics through in-depth training programmes for schools. In addition, they have a vast bank of schemes of learning with clear, practical resources, home-schooling videos and engaging workbooks all of which is mostly free.
Like White Rose Maths, we too believe in developing a culture of deep understanding, competence and confidence in maths and that this can be achieved by all. White Rose’s states: “Everyone Can Do Maths: Everyone Can!”.
This can be a reality when learners actively engage with maths and find it fun. To this end, Oakfield Learning has designed quality plavalmat® place value resources and manipulatives that are colour-matched to be used in conjunction with the White Rose Maths and Power Maths schemes to further enhance standards of teaching and learning to help children to master maths.
White Rose has taken the aims and learning objectives from the National Curriculum to create a framework which follows the ‘maths mastery approach’. A yearly overview shows how each maths ‘topic’ or programme of study has been logically sequenced, which is further broken down in to Autumn, Spring and Summer terms with weekly lesson-by-lesson overviews.
In each year group, the schemes start with a block on Place Value, which is followed by essential calculation skills that are needed in order for children to succeed in maths. By following a concrete-pictorial-abstract (CPA) approach, children develop a firm grounding in number so children can feel more confident in accessing the rest of the maths curriculum.
White Rose Maths schemes cover at least the expected content for each year group in the maths National Curriculum and they highlight where links are made to the DFE's Ready to Progress Criteria for each year group. From the end of Summer 2021, they will begin to release 'Firm Foundations' materials which will focus on some of the key ready-to-progress criteria to close any gaps by revising and deepening children's understanding of crucial maths areas.
What are White Rose Maths Schemes of Learning & Small Steps?
SCHEMES OF LEARNING
In September 2022, White Rose Maths released updated versions of their schemes of learning to ensure they continue provide the best materials to support children's learning in light of the impact the pandemic has had in recent years.
These schemes of learning contain notes and guidance along with key questions and possible sentence stems for teachers to use to help children learn mathematical concepts and acquire the depth of knowledge. Each scheme of learning clearly states which of the National Curriculum objectives are being covered in that particular topic. White Rose Maths provide Key Learning Opportunities that can be done to develop children's mathematical fluency by reading books, doing activities (both indoor and outdoors) and answering more traditional style questions. There are also examples of problems solving and reasoning questions which provide opportunites for teachers to check that children have a secure understanding of the concept.
Although these schemes of learning are intended for use by class teachers to help them to plan and structure their maths lessons, parents and carers may find these documents useful as it may help them to get a better understanding of what their child is learning and how it is taught.
Some schools will already be using the new 3.0 versions (which we use on our website) however there will be many schools who may still use version 2.0 until the next academic year 2023/24.
SMALL STEPS
In order to learn a topic, each scheme of learning has been broken up in to small steps of learning that should be done in the order that White Rose Maths have suggested. Each small step focuses on one key skill or learning objective. Each step builds on the last and by the time they have reached the end of the steps, they should have a secure understanding of the topic.
Each small step does not necessarily equate to one lesson. Some small steps are 'smaller' than others which means that one lesson may contain several small steps whereas pupils may need several lessons to master one small step.