Year 1 Traffic Surveys!
Article 1: Everyone, under 18, has the rights of the UN Convention Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. As part of our topic 'trains, planes and automobiles' this term, Year...
Voting nursery style!
During our maths session today we voted for our favorite sandwich filling. We could chooses between; cheese, ham or turkey and placed a brick next to our favourite. When everyone had cast their vote we counted each 'tower' and compared their heights. Our morning...
Aliens and Dragonflies love pattern making with underpants!
The children in the Dragonflies have loved making pattern using the pants from the story Aliens love underpants. The children were keen to show their talents making some very tricky patterns. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...
How many different ways can you sort 3D shapes?
Today we used our fantastic 3D shape knowledge to sort shapes into groups. We worked in teams to share our ideas. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
Look at our amazing 3D shapes!
We have been building 3D shapes. The children were given a packet of ready-cut paper straws. First they had to work out what their shape was by counting the number of straws and looking at the sizes. Using blutac and straws they created cubes, cuboids, square-based...
Measuring Angles!
The Beeches are continuing to deepen their knowledge of shape and space; this week sees them learning a standard way of using a protractor. It can sometimes be a 'tricky' piece of equipment to use but we appear to have picked it quite easily! Article 28: You have the...
Look at our 3D shape snowmen!
Today we have been learning about 3D shapes. We were given the nets of 3D shapes and we had to create the 3D shape. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms...
Mirror, Mirror!
We are looking at some 'shape and space' objectives in maths. It was an excellent opportunity to use the resources (mirrors) from our 'maths tool kits'. Here are the Beeches using them to find lines of symmetry within 2D shapes. Article 28: You have the right to a...
Active maths with the Dragonflies
The children had a super morning subitizing amounts and matching to the correct numeral. super mathematicians Dragonflies! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. Article 29:...
Delicious Division!
Article 28:You have the right to a good quality education. We are investigating division in maths. We used Smarties as our counters (yum) to help us divide into groups of 2, 3, 4, and 6. It was great fun but the best bit was when we could share the Smarties with our...
LKS2 Times Tables Workshop
This week LKS2 were lucky enough to be able to show their parents some of the different ways we practice our times tables at school. All 3 classes and parents gathered in the hall to take part in a number of different activities to improve the recall of times tables....
Human Timelines in UKS2
As part of our 'Survival of the Fittest' topic, the children had to understand the concept of time from 5 billion years ago to present day! A very difficult concept indeed, so we all decided to make a human timeline instead of just looking at pictures on a computer...