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We are so excited to get started with our new Maths scheme: Mastering Number next week in Year 2! Today we got to use our brand new rekenreks! We learnt how to hold and reset them properly, and we even had a go at a couple of calculations. We are sure this scheme will improve our fluency and understand of number.
We enjoyed some practical activities today based around our exploration of Place Value in Maths. Continue Reading
Year 6 transferred their science and maths knowledge into PE. They looked at the different muscles they needed to use to complete the triple jump (hop, skip and jump). They then used metre rulers to measure the distances they jumped – trying to beat their score the next time. Continue Reading
Today we began our Maths topic of Money in Year 3. We introduced the topic by taking part in a Money Carousel. We thought about using practical resources to recognize coins, work out certain amounts, find change and even tried a bit of reasoning. Continue Reading
Reception class loved our focus book Handa’s Surprise! As part of our learning the children worked in groups to sequence the story, developing their team work and comprehension skills: The children had the opportunity to taste the seven delicious fruits in the story: Using this experience the children were then able to write sentences to… Continue Reading
This week we started our maths topic on Fractions. We started off our learning by using lots of concrete resources to explore how fractions work. We thought about naming fractions, the language of fractions and thinking about fractions of amounts and equivalent fractions. Continue Reading
Today we took part in a measurement carousel in class. We used our own rulers to think about measuring objects in our classroom. We also began thinking about the difference between, mm, cm and m. We worked on holding our rulers carefully so we could read our measurements accurately. Continue Reading
This week we have been looking at properties of 3D shapes and doubling and halving. We had lots of fun on Friday working with concrete and pictorial resources to revise these concepts and learn some new ones! Continue Reading
To celebrate Chinese New Year this week, we had a very fun maths lesson today playing with Chinese tangrams. They are Chinese jigsaw puzzles and we had to think pragmatically to create new pictures from the pieces. Continue Reading
Check out some photos from our sharing and grouping maths lesson today. We are thinking about tricky remainders and using our times table knowledge. Continue Reading
