At Rossington, we are dedicated to providing a supportive and enriching environment where every student can excel in mathematics. Our comprehensive numeracy program ensures that students have access to a range of tools, resources, and tailored interventions to meet their individual needs.

All students benefit from SPARX Maths, an innovative online platform that supports learning through weekly homework tasks designed to reinforce understanding and improve retention. Following assessments, every pupil receives a personalised Question Level Analysis (QLA) sheet. These tailored resources help identify areas for improvement and guide students to focus on specific questions and SPARX clips to close gaps in knowledge.

For students without internet access at home, we run a supervised after-school club on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, led by our Maths, Science, and Learning Manager teams. Alternatively, students can access the Learning Resource Centre or tablets daily for independent study. Recognising the direct link between time spent on SPARX and improved grades, we encourage all students to engage regularly with the platform.

Our classrooms are equipped with a wide variety of resources, such as multilink cubes and manipulatives, to support hands-on learning and deepen understanding. For students needing additional support, we provide smaller class sizes and access to one-to-one tutors through Delta’s small-group intervention program. For those with Special Educational Needs (SEN), tailored resources and personalised teaching approaches ensure all students are supported in their learning journey.

To inspire confidence and resilience, we foster a growth mindset, encouraging students to see challenges as opportunities to grow. Achievements are celebrated through certificates, awards, and recognition in assemblies and newsletters, motivating students to continue their hard work.

We have worked to ensure that numeracy is celebrated and applied beyond traditional lessons, embedding it across the wider school experience. For example, students regularly encounter numeracy in Science when analysing experimental results, in Design and Technology when measuring and calculating dimensions, and in Food Technology when working with ratios and proportions in recipes. Additionally, we encourage engagement through interactive activities such as numeracy-themed quizzes, treasure hunts, and cross-curricular challenges. Events like World Maths Day and Pi Day are highlights of our calendar, providing opportunities for students to explore numeracy in creative and enjoyable ways. These initiatives help to foster a positive attitude towards numeracy and demonstrate its relevance in everyday life.

At Rossington, our goal is to create a positive and engaging experience in numeracy, empowering all students to achieve their full potential.

Reading

At Rossington All Saints Academy, we place reading at the heart of our curriculum. We want our students to be able to access the full curriculum offer by developing a reading programme that focuses on accuracy, automaticity (speed, fluency), prosody (expression, emphasis and tone) and a love of reading.

The English secondary reading strategy is delivered via English lessons, where all students are given access to a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. Students read and reread texts to find layers of meaning and increase understanding. Each text also focuses on a key theme to encourage our students’ personal development.

All students in Years 7 and 8 are assessed using GL Assessment’s reading test https://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/products/new-group-reading-test-ngrt .The assessment helps highlight which students require support with their reading. This support is provided in different ways depending on the need of each student. This could include an extra timetabled literacy intervention lesson, focusing on key literacy skills and comprehension and some students will receive additional reading time in the library.

In addition, all students in Years 7 and 8 access the Accelerated Reader programme https://www.renaissance.com/products/accelerated-reader.  Accelerated Reader is a programme designed to encourage a love of reading, using reading levels to suggest appropriate books for each student and testing for comprehension along the way. Students visit the library for 1 hour per week, to access accelerated reader lessons.

We are also excited to begin trialling a different reading program within the Academy called Reading Plus Reading Plus – Adaptive Literacy Intervention for Grades 3-12. This aims to develop comprehension and efficiency in reading and adapts to offer support and texts that are appropriate for the reading level of each individual learner.

As a trust we have recently launched the ‘reading routes’ initiative for all Y7 students, with a plan to roll this out to all Y8 and Y9 students. Students will follow a route which corresponds with a genre for example crime and mystery. Students will be encouraged to read 6 books from the genre to complete the route. After they have read each book, they will complete an accelerated reader quiz which focuses on the book they have read. Once students have completed a reading route they will move onto the next route. This initiative aims to encourage reading for pleasure and a love of reading.   

Literacy

We promote literacy across the school. Each week, students across KS3 listen and read along to an extract from a novel. Students are then given the opportunity to discuss what they have read. This reading is designed to expose students to texts with diverse characters and themes.

Word of the Week introduces students to a range of new vocabulary that can be used across all subjects. Vocabulary is tied to the local context so that it is meaningful and builds cultural capital.

The following icons have also been shared with all staff and students (they are displayed in student planners). The expectation is that all staff use the following icons in each curriculum area when there is a planned reading task.

Oracy

Oracy is a key focus across the Academy, and we aim to develop students’ speaking and listening skills, confidence, and ability to express ideas. Oracy tasks are embedded across tutor time activities and curriculum areas. The Oracy logo and Talk Toolkit is displayed to remind students of the expectations and guidelines that facilitate a positive discussion. Students are also provided with sentence starters to scaffold their responses, and word walls offer key subject vocabulary that our students can use to articulate their ideas.