NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We enjoyed some practical activities today based around our exploration of Place Value in Maths.</p>

<p>We enjoyed some practical activities today based around our exploration of Place Value in Maths.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Reception class loved our focus book Handa&#8217;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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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.  &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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!</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Check out some photos from our sharing and grouping maths lesson today. We are thinking about tricky remainders and using our times table knowledge.</p>

<p>We are continuing with our Key Performance Indicators in maths this half term. Our objective this week is to be able to confidently add and subtract numbers up to 999. We revised setting out column methods, borrowing and carrying before trying some tasks which included snakes and ladders games, reasoning challenge cards and dice games. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We are continuing with our Key Performance Indicators in maths this half term. Our objective this week is to be able to confidently add and subtract numbers up to 999. We revised setting out column methods, borrowing and carrying before trying some tasks which included snakes and ladders games, reasoning challenge cards and dice games. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Nurture Group this half term we are learning about maps. So far we have been looking at different types of maps, including Ordnance Survey maps and atlases. We have been drawing our own maps of the school grounds and hiding treasure for other teams to find. Today we started to learn how to use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Nurture Group this half term we are learning about maps. So far we have been looking at different types of maps, including Ordnance Survey maps and atlases. We have been drawing our own maps of the school grounds and hiding treasure for other teams to find. Today we started to learn how to use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we worked in small groups to consolidate our knowledge when working with multiples of ten. We completed worded and reasoning problems and used practical resources to count in tens. We challenged ourselves to think about multiples of ten beyond 120.</p>

<p>Today we worked in small groups to consolidate our knowledge when working with multiples of ten. We completed worded and reasoning problems and used practical resources to count in tens. We challenged ourselves to think about multiples of ten beyond 120.</p>

<p>Following a practical in which we looked at the effects of different liquids on an eggshell (simulating their effects on teeth), Year 4 wanted to extend their investigation. Following suggestions from Peace and Harley, we will now test the effects of different amounts of sugar in a water solution. Using our maths skills from year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This morning we had lots of fun in Year 3 taking part in a Grouping and Sharing Carousel. This is to consolidate our knowledge when grouping and sharing before moving onto formal division next week. We grouped and shared lots of concrete objects such as toy dinosaurs, playing cards, counters and dominoes. We also looked [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We have been continuing with our Year 3 key performance indicators in maths this week. This week we are revising time facts from Year 2. We matched up time facts cards, played minute past the hour dominoes and o’clock dice games.</p>