Following the White Rose Maths scheme, EYFS will cover three main phases of learning over the course of the spring term. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each phase is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these small learning steps then cover all the curriculum content your child needs to know in small related chunks.
Number Early Learning Goals
- Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number.
- Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5.
- Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.
Numerical Pattern Early Learning Goals
- Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system.
- Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.
- Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally
This term’s small learning steps for each block
| Maths area of learning | Block | Small Learning Steps |
| Number | To 20 and beyond | Building numbers beyond 10: Build and identify numbers to 20, recognise that numbers 1-9 repeat after every set, understand larger numbers are made up of 10s and some ones.
Counting patterns beyond 10: Child will count on and back from different starting points, gain a deeper understanding of ‘one more’ and ‘one less’, |
| Measure, shape and spatial thinking | To 20 and beyond | Match, rotate and manipulate: Completing shape puzzles and jigsaws, rotating shapes, matching shapes to outlines and building models using a variety of shapes and resources. |
| Number | First Then Now | Adding more: The children will use real objects to find a quantity of a group. The first, then and now structure will be used to create mathematical stories in meaningful contexts.
Taking Away: The children will use real objects to begin to understand that the quantity of a group can be changed by taking items away.
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| Measure, shape and spatial thinking | First Then Now | Compose and decompose: The children will learn that shapes can be combined and separated to make new shapes. |
| Number | Find my pattern | Doubling: The children will learn that doubling means ‘twice as many’. They will be given opportunities to build doubles using real objects and maths equipment.
Sharing and grouping: The children will learn how to share a quantity fairly. They will be given opportunities to share and make equal groups. Even and Odd: The children will learn that some quantities can be shared into two equal groups and some can’t. |
| Measure, shape and spatial thinking | Find my pattern | Visualise and build: The Children will understand that places and models can be replicated and need to experience looking at these from different positions. They will be provided with opportunities to replicate simple constructions, models, real places and places in stories |
| Number | On the move | Deepening Understanding: The children will be given time and opportunities to engage in extended problem solving and develop their critical thinking skills. These problems will be linked to familiar stories or come from the children’s suggestions or real problems that arise as they play.
Patterns and relationships: The children will be given opportunities to explore and investigate relationships between numbers and shapes. |
| Measure, shape and spatial thinking | On the move | Mapping: The children will understand that we can make maps and plans to represent places and use these to see where things are in relation to other things. |