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Browse Nursery to Year 6 by year, term, block and small step — over 900 steps aligned to the primary planning grids.
Built for UK primary classrooms
We are building a dedicated Primary Maths Vault — the same Maths Vault toolkit you may already know, reshaped for Nursery through Year 6: small-step curriculum navigation, lesson decks, CPA visual models, and AI-generated worksheets matched to younger learners.
Target launch: 1 September 2026, 08:00 British Summer Time
15 themed friends who bring word problems to life — sport, food, space, pets and everyday UK settings. They appear in applied questions (not every drill), matched to the maths topic or a theme you choose when generating.
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Let's explore the maths together!
Warm and encouraging. Uses short sentences and phrases like 'Let's try…' and 'What do you notice?'
Helps with: General, Reasoning, Problem Solving
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🌿 Outdoors & Nature
I love counting things on our woodland walks!
Curious and playful. Often notices things in nature.
Helps with: Counting, Comparing, Subitising, Place Value Early
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🌿 Outdoors & Nature
Buzz! Patterns are everywhere in the garden.
Bright and busy. Links maths to hexagons and flower beds.
Helps with: Patterns, Arrays, Multiplication, Repeated Addition
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⚽ Sport & Play
Football and maths both need good teamwork!
Energetic and fair. Uses match-day scenarios.
Helps with: Addition, Subtraction, Tables, Statistics Simple
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⚽ Sport & Play
I track every kilometre on my bike!
Practical and precise. Mentions km, metres, and minutes naturally.
Helps with: Measure, Distance, Time, Perimeter, Speed Intro
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🚀 Space & Discovery
Space is huge — we need big numbers!
Calm and wonder-filled. Uses mission briefing style for word problems.
Helps with: Place Value, Rounding, Large Numbers, Negative Numbers
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🚀 Space & Discovery
Beep! I can calculate anything you need.
Friendly robot. Says 'Beep!' occasionally. Very clear step-by-step thinking.
Helps with: Addition, Subtraction, Column Method, Estimation
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🍳 Kitchen & Food
A recipe is just maths you can eat!
Cheerful and practical. Kitchen and café settings.
Helps with: Fractions, Measure, Capacity, Scaling
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🍳 Kitchen & Food
I bake batches — and maths helps me scale up!
Down-to-earth. Uses bake-sale and market stall contexts.
Helps with: Ratio, Proportion, Percentages, Scaling
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🐾 Pets & Home
Woof! Maths happens at home too.
Loyal and simple. Family-friendly scenarios.
Helps with: Word Problems, Addition, Subtraction, Money
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🐾 Pets & Home
I always notice who has more fish biscuits!
Gentle and observant. Good for EYFS/KS1 comparison language.
Helps with: Comparing, Ordering, Early Addition, Eyfs
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🎨 Arts & Making
Shapes and symmetry make the best pictures!
Creative and visual. Describes shapes and patterns clearly.
Helps with: Geometry, Shape, Symmetry, Angles, Properties
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🎨 Arts & Making
Music is maths you can feel!
Rhythmic. Links number sequences to beats and repeats.
Helps with: Sequences, Multiples, Patterns, Algebra Intro
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🏘️ Town & Everyday
Every penny counts when we raise money for school!
Patient and clear. Always uses £ and p correctly with 2 d.p. Speaks like a proud PTA volunteer at school fairs and fundraisers.
Helps with: Money, Decimals, Percentages, Profit Loss Simple
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🏘️ Town & Everyday
I use maths on every bus and train trip!
Organised and relatable. Uses UK transport and school-day routines.
Helps with: Time, Timetables, Duration, Coordinates Intro
Full profile & poses →Primary Maths Vault adapts the secondary toolkit for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 — same quality generators and lesson spine, with language, pacing and contexts matched to primary classrooms.
Browse Nursery to Year 6 by year, term, block and small step — over 900 steps aligned to the primary planning grids.
Full lesson presentations: retrieval starter, I · We · You teaching, plenary and exit ticket — ready to present from Vault Viewer.
Bar models, part–whole, place value, number lines, ten-frames and arrays — pictorial support built into generated resources.
AI-generated practice per small step — classroom worksheets and homework layouts designed for primary typography and pacing.
Willow, Kai, Chef Bea and 12 more friends bring real-life contexts to word problems — see the cast above.
Retrieval practice, hinge questions, pre-teach packs and task boards — the inclusion toolkit adapted for primary maths.
Primary RanR topics and quick recall starters mapped to small steps — keep prior learning fresh without extra planning.
Pick-up cover worksheets and three-tier CRAFT differentiation when you need a solid lesson at speed.
While we build the primary site, grab our free transition pack — ten pick-and-choose activities for transition days, summer school or the post-SATs window. Secret agent BIDMAS, elevator number line, smoothie ratio lab, treasure grid heist and more.
Primary Maths Vault is scheduled to launch on . Sign up on the landing page to be emailed when the site goes live and for early access news.
Primary Maths Vault is built for the full UK primary range: Nursery, Reception, and Years 1–6 (EYFS, KS1 and KS2), with White Rose small-step navigation across over 900 steps.
You will get White Rose small-step browsing, Vault Viewer lesson decks (retrieval, I · We · You, plenary, exit ticket), CPA visual models, AI-generated worksheets and homework, themed characters for word problems, inclusion and hinge-question packs, retrieval starters, cover lessons, and CRAFT differentiation.
Yes. Download the free Year 6 → Year 7 Maths Transition Kit — ten pick-and-choose activities with teacher notes and pupil sheets for transition days, summer school, or after SATs.
Classroom teachers, maths leads, EYFS and KS1–KS2 coordinators, transition leads, and anyone teaching maths in UK primary schools who wants resources matched to younger learners.
Characters such as Willow, Kai and Chef Bea appear in applied and word-problem questions — not every drill question. Contexts match the maths topic or a theme you choose when generating resources.
What would make Primary Maths Vault indispensable in your classroom? Generators, lesson formats, character themes, printable layouts — we read every suggestion.
Sign up for a single email when Primary Maths Vault goes live in September 2026. No spam — just launch news and early access when we are ready.