1. Functional Maths across the Curriculum
Easy and interesting ways to embed functional maths
and cross-curricular work into schemes of learning.
Caroline Brooke
Beverley High School

2. Beverley High School Beverley High is an outstanding 11 – 18
comprehensive school, which is girls only to
16 and then mixed to 18 as part of the joint
sixth form with Beverley Grammar School,
a nearby boys’ comprehensive. We are 5
form entry with approx 140 pupils in each
year.

3. Beverley High School Beverley is a market town whose population
is largely lower middle class or upper working
class. Within catchment there is one area of
social housing from which a number of IMD
pupils are drawn.
Context
Maths v English
Knew they needed Maths but didn’t enjoy it

4. Beverley High School The community that we serve is mono-ethnic
being largely of white British background. In
comparison with other East Riding secondary
schools we have the highest proportion of
non-white British pupils.
Context
Maths v English
Knew they needed Maths but didn’t enjoy it

5. Maths Department 7 Members of the department Head of Department
Assessment and Intervention Coordinator
Assistant Headteacher
2 Full time teachers
2 Part time teachers

6. Results
Compared to the English Department our results were always lower.

7. Pupils’ View of Maths Need to do it Boring Hard
Qualification not skills needed
Preferred English

8. Objectives for Changes
To raise pupil’s levels of enjoyment in Maths.
To raise pupil’s attainment in Maths.
Increase cross-curricular projects to help implementation of the new National Curriculum.
Increase amount of Functional Maths in the curriculum.

9. Start Announcement of the end of KS3 SATs
Focus on cross-curricular work from new National Curriculum
STEM agenda
PSE approached us to work with pfeg to help deliver the financial capability entitlement
Functional Maths coming online

10. Projects Work with pfeg http://www.pfeg.org/ Bowland –

11. pfeg

13. pfeg Every school is entitled to support from a consultant
Free resources all trialled by pfeg and schools

14. Projects
Design a bedroom – Y8
Personal Finance – Y10

15. Bowland Maths

18. BOWLAND Maths Choose suitable tasks which were relevant to our pupils
Choose tasks that didn’t need ICT

19. Year 7 – My Music and Water Availability
Year 8 – Keeping the Pizza Hot and Crash Test
Year 9 – How Risky is Life? and Highway Link Design

20. Organisation
Looked at each chosen project and how we could link with other subjects
Collapse groups and teach in mixed ability tutor groups
Fit Bowland projects around other departments and we move our topics to fit around

21. My Music
Looking at using beats per minute of songs to form and test a hypothesis
Music teaches the first lesson – how to count beats per minute and different genures of music
We look at collecting data and analysing
ICT teach the final lessons using Audacity to look at the effect of changing the rate of music

22. Water Availability
As groups form arguments as to why your country deserves the charity funding for water development
The week before we deliver the project Geography teaches two lessons looking at the three countries (Algeria, Turkey and Jordan) and the importance of water to people and countries.

23. Keeping the Pizza Hot?
This project looks at the cooling times of pizzas
The week before food technology made and cooked pizzas. They then used data loggers and thermometers.
Pupils then analyse this data.

24. How Risky is Life?
Pupils look at the real risks in life and compare real data with the stories portrayed in the media.
The first lesson is taught in PSE lessons as part of the risk entitlement of the National Curriculum. Pupils look at their perceptions of risk and which causes are the most risky.
The pupils then analyse real data and the probabilities of dying.

25. How Risky is Life?

27. Next Increase in cross-curricular themes for Bowland
Introduction of Cre8ate Maths
PE project

28. Cre8ate Maths

30. Cre8te Maths Using as key tasks – starters and plenaries
Using them to coincide with cross-curricular themes e.g. Election, World Cup

31. PE project PE collect fitness data Record and analyse data
Present to PE

32. History of Maths
History to teach Romans
Each tutor group to take a period in the history of maths