The Maths Department

The Maths Department is large with 8 full-time and two part-time teachers.  All students study Maths for 3 hours a week throughout Years 7 to 11 and the scheme of work for Year 7 / Key Stage 3 has been extensively re-written in line with the National Numeracy Strategy framework. Nearly all students will take GCSE in Maths and significant numbers also sit GCSE Statistics. Grove School currently uses the Edexcel GCSE examination syllabuses.

Post 16 courses at Grove College currently include Maths and Further Maths (Including Pure Maths, Mechanics, Statistics and Decision and Discrete Maths) AS and A2, and provision for students to re-sit GCSE.  These regularly attract good numbers of students.

Results at Key Stage 3, GCSE and A level are good.

The members of the Maths teaching staff are:

Mrs Brenda Denne who is Subject Leader and Ms S Hunt who is Second in Department. Mr B Chappell, Mrs P Jackson, Mrs M Elkin, Miss V Firth, Ms F Pluse and Mr W Turnbull are the other members of the department – they are all full-time maths specialists. Mrs J Jones and Mrs P Soul also teach maths, specialising in groups needing learning support.

The department is well-equipped, with a suite of rooms, all of which have interactive whiteboards   A networked ICT room is located within the department and is used principally for Maths teaching.  The department has a full class set of programmable, graphical calculators.

Beyond the normal curriculum, students in Key Stages 3 and 4 have entered the UKMT Junior and Intermediate challenges, and a team represented the school in the regional final of the UKMT Team Challenge. Some of the 6th form Maths groups went on a residential trip to The Birks.