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The Maths Department

The Maths Department is large with seven full-time and two part-time teachers.  All students study Maths for 200 mins/approximately 3 to 3¼  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.  Students will take GCSE in Maths and significant numbers also sit GCSE Statistics. Grove School currently uses the Edexcel GCSE examination syllabus but is trialling the AQA Modular course with some groups.

Grove School - Maths Department

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, Ms S Hunt who is Second in Department. Mr B Chappell, Mrs P Jackson, Mrs M Elkin, Mrs V Felthouse, Ms F Pluse and Mr W Turnbull.  Mrs J Jones also teaches 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 with laptops 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.

The department has purchased an online interactive resource which provides lessons, revision materials and also acts as an online homework resource.  The username and password for this resource has been given to each student.

The department hosts a FunMaths Roadshow each year which brings year 6 students together with year 7 and Grove College students.  The students are set the task of solving as many mathematical puzzles as possible in a given time.