Year 7 and Year 8
Pupils have 4 maths lessons each week. Three lessons are spent covering the appropriate National Curriculum programmes of study using a range of resources (e.g. Mathswise, Vickers, Smile etc). The forth is Mal work which involves using and applying Maths. All lessons have a 10-minute intensive numeracy activity.
Pupils are set homework at least once per week. The compulsory homework reviews concepts and skills taught in KS2 and the early part of KS3.
Year 7 and year 8 groups are set. In year 7 this is initially based upon information from feeder primary schools. By year 8 sets are more finely structured taking into account CAT scores, performance at Sir Henry Cooper, attitude and attendance.
Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11
Pupils continue to have 4 lessons per week. Setting becomes tighter by year 9 as pupils start their GCSE Maths courses. The SMP 11-16 scheme is the core learning material used and each set takes the "colour course" that is appropriate. Some groups take the same course but progress through it more slowly. The course colours from highest to lowest are yellow, red, blue and green.
All courses lead to a GCSE in Mathematics, they all have 3 elements
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3 x Module Tests |
March Y10 ) |
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November Y11 ) |
= 30% |
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April Y11 ) |
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2 x Open Ended Tasks (Coursework) |
Practical East Y10 ) Investigational Y11) |
= 20% |
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1 x Terminal Examination Paper |
= 50% |
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All pupils have a minimum of two attempts (one in Y10 one in Yll) to pass the Hull City Council Numeracy award at the Bronze, Silver or Gold level.