The Maths Department
The
Maths Department is large with 7 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 and Mr J Maloney
are the other members of the department – they
are all full-time maths specialists and they are supported
well by learning support staff.
The department is well-equipped, with a suite of rooms,
some 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.
