Our new reasoning focus is ‘make a guess’ and we started this new strategy with a problem about blocks. We had only three moves to make the pile of blocks all equal heights. It was tricky at first but with perseverance, teamwork and a little acting out the problem we Read more…
In Maths this week, Class 4 have been finding halves and quarters of numbers. We started by folding a strip of paper into quarters to explore what different fractions looked like and to help us understand that 2/4 was the same as 1/2 and 2/2 was the same as a Read more…
On Wednesday morning, class 11 walked in to their classroom with lots of questions. Why are out tables covered in masking tape? What are going to be doing this morning? In order to help become more confident in using a protractor to measure acute and obtuse angles accurately, we set Read more…
This week we have been looking at doubling and halving in maths. We have used a variety of equipment to double and share equally and finished off the week by solving problems involving halving shapes. Well done Reception you have persevered with this even when sometimes it proved a little Read more…
Year 6 SATs will be held next week. Monday 14th SPAG and spelling test. Tuesday 15th Reading Comprehension test. Wednesday 16th Maths arithmetic and reasoning 1 tests. Thursday 17th Maths reasoning 2 test. The children have worked incredibly hard. We wish them the best of luck! Don’t forget to come Read more…
Yesterday in Nursery we were making the most of the sunny weather and did lots of learning outside!
To finish off our work on our mental arithmetic in maths this week, Class 5 took part in a treasure hunt this morning. First we had to find the clues hidden around the playground then work out the calculation using our mental strategies. We all had great fun and showed Read more…
Class 4 have been doubling numbers to ten this week and on Friday, they played ‘Hit the Button’ to see how good their mental recall was. They were given a minute to see how many doubles they could find. The top of our leaderboard currently looks like this: Jola: 17 Read more…
Class 6 enjoyed using the numicon today to help us to explore division using a grouping strategy. The numicon helped us to visualise the groups and helped us to count accurately.
