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Maths

Mathematics Department

At Brooke Weston Academy we firmly believe that everyone can be a Mathematician. We want to provide every student with the mathematical toolkit and confidence to enable them to thrive in the real world. At the most basic level, we aim to provide all of our students with the numeracy and reasoning skills that will, for example, enable them to get somewhere on time, to pay their bills and to effectively function within their future workplaces. We want to develop Mathematicians who can confidently access and fluently use mathematical concepts in any area of study, for example, the projection of profit margins, how to calculate the concentration of chemical compounds or how to make accurate inferences from a dataset. We want to develop students who act and talk like Mathematicians by asking probing questions, making predictions, testing their hypotheses, and developing arguments to explain their conclusions. Our ultimate aim is to expose our students to the real beauty of mathematics with its infinite possibilities and to develop Mathematicians who can ultimately go on to change the world.

Mathematics Intent

To achieve the above we deliver an ambitious, carefully sequenced, knowledge rich, coherent, forward-facing curriculum for all our students from Year 7 through to Year 13. We aim to create, in all our lessons, an environment that is entirely conducive to learning, through use of consistent, embedded routines and up-to-date, research-informed methods such as retrieval practice, interleaving and direct instruction. We believe that students should learn about and understand mathematical concepts rather than being taught algorithms and tricks to be learnt by rote. Our initial focus is to provide all our students with a firm foundation of mathematical skills and knowledge, upon which we then strive to build confident and capable mathematicians with not only these key skills, but also a strong grasp of the reasoning and problem-solving skills required to apply those skills in different contexts. We endeavour to provide our students with the support, and also the challenge, required to facilitate consistent improvement, through both effective, impactful lessons and homework that reinforces the learning taking place in school.

Enhancement Opportunities

The Maths department have an active calendar for trips, visits and challenges including:

  • OMEC and Maths Feast
  • Local inter-school competitions
  • Maths Challenges such as the UKMT across all year groups.

The department are pleased to welcome the Advanced Maths Support Programme to deliver problem solving courses for our A level students to support them with their STEP and MAT assessments.

The Team

 

Erin Van Wyk

Head of Mathematics 

erin.vanwyk@brookeweston.org
Ben Johnson

Secondary Director of Mathematics 

ben.johnson@brookeweston.org
Will Gunstone

Second in Mathematics 

will.gunstone@brookeweston.org
Megan Tebbutt

Lead of Numeracy 

megan.tebbutt@brookeweston.org
Ignus Fourie

Lead of Financial Studies

ignus.fourie@brookeweston.org
Sarah Ironside

Mathematics Curriculum Leader

sarah.ironside@brookeweston.org
Roisin Fernando

Teacher of Mathematics 

Senior Assistant Principal

roisin.fernando@brookeweston.org
Sammy Hallybone

Teacher of Mathematics 

Culture, Ethos & Diversity Lead

sammy.hallybone@brookeweston.org
Wanda Gerard

Teacher of Mathematics 

RSL Year 10

wanda.gerard@brookeweston.org
Mary Shepherd

Teacher of Mathematics 

mary.shepherd1@brookeweston.org
Lezindi Du Buisson

Teacher of Mathematics 

lezindi.dubuisson@brookeweston.org
Anastassios Tatsis

Teacher of Mathematics 

anastassios.tatsis@ketteringscienceacademy.org

 

Useful Websites and Links

 

KS3/4

Sparx Maths: Sparx Maths

  • This website is used for weekly homework
  • Independent learning allows tutorial videos and quizzes for each topic

Mrcarter Maths: MrCarterMaths

  • You will need a login. See your teacher/notice board. Brilliant way of quickly practicing lots of questions on a topic and having instant access to answers

Corbett Maths: Corbettmaths – Videos, worksheets, 5-a-day and much more

  • Wonderful website that has it all. Videos, worksheets and GCSE exam practice sections

Maths made easy: MME Revise | Maths English & Science Revision (mathsmadeeasy.co.uk)

  • Website that has a wide range of GCSE practice question papers to download and work on.

Onmaths: onmaths | The home of GCSE Maths

  • Excellent website that has GCSE practice papers to work on. The best thing about them are that they self mark but also have worked solutions to help you improve.

Mathsgenie: Maths Genie - Free Online GCSE and A Level Maths Revision

  • This website is absolutely fantastic! Here you will find video tutorials and exam questions on every topic. Past papers can also be found here with mark schemes, worked solutions and video solutions

KS5

Mathsgenie: Maths Genie - Free Online GCSE and A Level Maths Revision

  • This website is absolutely fantastic! Here you will find video tutorials and exam questions on every topic. Past papers can also be found here with mark schemes, worked solutions and video solutions

Naiker Maths: Naiker | Maths (naikermaths.com)

  • This website has loads of free resources for A-level Maths and A-level Further Maths. You will find exam questions for every topic, tutorials and many practice papers.

 

A-level Maths Revision: A Level Maths Revision | Revision Courses | Tutoring | Free Resources

  • Excellent free revision resources

 

Maths and Physics tutor: Physics & Maths Tutor (physicsandmathstutor.com)

This website consists of solution banks to the textbook exersies for A-level Maths and Further Maths – these are more detailed than the answers found at the back of the textbook

  1. Maths Curriculum Overview pdf
  2. Financial Studies Curriculum Overview pdf

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