Fractions Fun!
This week Year 5 have been recapping their knowledge of fractions. We started the week off by investigating how fractions can be represented and then moved on to looking at ordering, comparing and working out equivalent fractions. Year 5 have really shown off their...
Practical Problem Solving in Maths
This week in maths we have been focusing on 2D shapes. We started off the week naming the different 2D shapes and yesterday we looked at how many sides they had. For our problem solving we had to work out how many hexagons you could make from 18 lollipop sticks. To...
Investigating Fitness in Science
This week in Upper Key Stage Two Science, we have been carrying out investigations into fitness. The classes each decided how their investigation would look. We discussed the aim of the investigation, our predictions as to what the data we gathered would show and how...
Time For Times Tables!
Hello everyone, Just a quick post from Bluebells, Snowdrops and Tulips regarding online times tables games: Below are links to five very entertaining times table games that are ALL TABLET FRIENDLY. These can be used at home, in order for you to sharpen up your times...
Marvellous Multiplication, Delightful Division
In Snowdrops, we have been doing marvellous multiplication and delightful division! The children have learned written methods of calculation, such as grid multiplication and short division - both of which have gone down a treat! The class has been excellent at taking...
Maths and PE
The children have enjoyed using maths in their PE lesson this week. They were shown a number card and then they needed to collect that amount of objects one at a time from the middle and place them in their teams hola-hoop. Great number recognition, counting and great...
Baby goes to market
We have had another busy week in nursery! We have continued our diversity theme this week which corresponds with Black History Month. We have focused on the story of Baby goes to market by Atinuke. We thoroughly enjoyed exploring the story through drama and by making...
Enjoying being outside
This week the children have been outside enjoying the sunshine. They have also been working together to problem solve as well as developing their fine and gross motor skills. Some children enjoyed investigating autumn leaves by doing rubbings of them. Article 13: You...
Nuts about the numbers in the Dragonflies Class
The children have had a fun week exploring number with the number blocks. They have explored different ways of making the same amount and matched to a numeral. They copied the stampolines and stamped lots of different ways of making the same amount. Super...
All different…all happy…
A huge welcome to our nursery children, both old and new. We are very proud of our nursery children as they are embracing our routine extremely well and appear to be thriving.Our topic this half term is ourselves and we have been focusing on the fact that we are all...
The Robins are mathemagicians!
This week in maths we have been learning new vocabulary to describe quantities and amounts. We have also been learning the symbols for more than, less than and equal to (<, > and =). The children have shown a really good understanding and had lots of fun in...
Multiplication Masters
In Tulips we have been learning all about multiplication this week. Yesterday we used the dienes to practice multiplying a ones number by a tens number. We know that 2 x 30 is 2 lots of 30. We then made an array using the dienes, this helped us to calculate the final...