Maths: Blog items
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 1:17pm
In today’s lesson we began to measure the lengths and heights of objects, using non-standard units of measure, e.g. cubes and paper clips. We learnt that to measure something we needed to use a consistent of measure and not a range of objects. We also learnt that the unit of measure needs to be equal in size. We consolidated our learning from the previous lesion by comparing the lengths and heights of objects we measured, learning that for accurate comparisons we needed to use a consistent unit of measure.
Reception Number bonds to 5 and 10
Date: 18th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
The children in Reception have been very busy of the last few weeks loearning thei number bonds to 5 and ten. They have used the tensframe and cubes to help them work out all the different ways of making ten and used their fingers tp represent this. They have also used the part, part whole model to find all the different possibilies. Some children have even been learning how to record their work as a calculation.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 8:31pm
This week nursery have been exploring shape. We have learnt the names of simple 2D shapes and are beginning to describe their properties. The children have also used shapes to make pictures.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:48pm
This week we started our statistics unit. After a recap on all statistics covered in Years 3 - 5, we moved on to look at solving problems using line graphs. Today we have been looking at infiormation displayed on dual bar charts.
Acorns - Walking Through the Jungle
Date: 4th Mar 2024 @ 4:21pm
This week Acorns have had lots of fun exploring and learning about the jungle and wild animals. Our sensory story is Walking through the Jungle, and we have enjoyed listening to the animal noises, using animal puppets and playing with the different animals in out jungle themed tuff tray. We have also incorporated the jungle into our maths and art sessions. We really enjoyed animal printing with sponges and paints and creating our very own lions and snakes.
Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 8:46pm
Today in Design and Technology we practised the skill of accurately drawing out shapes. We carefully used a ruler to measure out different shapes in centimetres and we then carefully cut them out. We will apply this skill to mark out different parts of our moving vehicles, such as doors and windows.
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:29pm
Today we learnt about finding the difference and exploring this as a form of subtraction. We worked to make comparisons between two amounts, asking questions such as who has more? How do you know? How many more does _ have? We used our skills of counting back and counting on to help us to find the difference. Some of us made both amounts to visually see how many more or less a number is.
Acorns - Goldilocks and number fun
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 4:18pm
Acorns have had lots of fun this week learning about the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. We have immersed ourselves in sensory stories, oaty tuff trays, puppets and even Goldilocks yoga. Alongside this, we have been exploring fun number and maths activities as our school celebrates its 100th day of school. We have been busy developing our focus and concentration skills while taking part in adult led activities. We worked very hard and had lots of fun.
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 8:43pm
What a great day we had in Year 6 today! Over the last couple of days we have been researching pizzas and looking at recipes in order to design our own pizza. Today we worked in groups and pairs to make from scratch the pizza dough and the sauce. We then split the dough into equal parts and rolled/stretched it out to create a thin base. Once this was done, we added the sauce and then picked a range of different toppings to add. We were very impressed with the results and they tasted amazing!! We are going to evaluate our pizzas tomorrow and say what we liked about our prodct and what we would add/change.
Year 4- Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 7:09am
Today, Yera 4 have been celebrating our 100th day in school by completing problem solving activities based on the book 'One is a snail, ten is a crab.' We were given a number and we had to work systematically to find all the possibliites of making that number. We found that starting with the larger number and making small changes each time was the most efficient method to find all possiblities.
Year 1 Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 19th Feb 2024 @ 6:19pm
Today we celebrated our 100th day in Year 1! We began the day with a special assembly with Miss Hooson, who introduced us to a very interesting Maths story! We enjoyed reading the story ‘One is a snail, ten is a crab’ and tried our very best to work out some of the questions in the story! When we went back to class we read and discussed the story again, to deepen our understanding of some of the calculations used in the text. We then used the animals in the story to find ways of making 10 or 20. Some of us began to think about working systematically to find all the possible options. We then chose a number between 2 and 20 and found how many legs could add together to make this number.
Date: 19th Feb 2024 @ 4:50pm
As part of our ‘100th day at School’ celebrations, we completed a problem solving activity based on the book ‘One is a snail, ten is a crab.’ We were given a number and had to find all the different possibilities of making the number. We tried to work systematically starting with the biggest number and changing one part of the calculation each time.
Date: 7th Feb 2024 @ 12:08pm
Today we started to look at arrays and how they can be used to represent multiplication. We used counters to make arrays by putting them into equal rows and columns.
We then wrote multiplication expressions to describe our arrays. We found that one array can be described in two different ways. For example, 3 x 5 and 5 x 3. This is because, like addition, multiplication is commutative. Which means it can be done in any order and you will reach the same total.
School Council- Fundraising and reading book ideas.
Date: 5th Feb 2024 @ 7:43pm
At our latest meeting, the School Council were joined by Miss Moyes, Miss Jones- Boast and Debbie our Cook.
We met to discuss how to calculate the cost and possible profit that could be made when we sell Elmer themed cup cakes to raise money for Brian House.
The cupcakes will be all different bright colours, just like Elmer. They will be sold at hometime on the school gates and also during the day for staff to purchase too.
Miss Moyes also needed to know what type of school reading books the children would enjoy, as she was going to be ordering some more. The school council then went back to their classes to find out.
Another meeting will be held in the last week of this half term to discuss the results.
Nursery Meet Alan and his Big Scary Teeth
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 1:01pm
Nursery read a brilliant story called "Alan's Big Scary Teeth" about an Alligator who scares all the jungle animals with his very large teeth! Alan takes really good care of his teeth, so we have been learning about how to take care of our own teeth and have practised brushing some giant teeth! We have also talked about "A" for alligator and thought of other items that begin with "A". To practise out counting, we have have been giving Alan the right number of teeth. To support the children with their social interactions, we played the Crocodile Tooth game. The children had to take it in turns to press down a tooth and hope that they don't get bitten by the crocodile!
Nursery Try to Catch The Gingerbread Man!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 11:21am
Nursery had their work cut out when they read the story "The Gingerbread Man". We ran as fast as we could but we just couldn't catch him! So, instead we explored the ingredients we needed to make gingerbread and then made our own Gingerbread Men. We practised ordering numbers 1 - 5, followed instructions to draw a gingerbread man and used tweezers to add buttons on gingerbread men. We never did catch the Gingerbread man!
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 6:56pm
Today we began our DT journey and learnt about different mechanisms.
The first mechanism we created was a slider. We created a slider based around a scene from ‘The Gingerbread Man’, which enabled a character to move forwards and backwards to chase the main character. We learnt how we were going to make the mechanism safely, read through the instructions and took great care to carry out each step.
The next mechanism to master was a lever. For this mechanism we linked our learning to the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Again, we talked through the instructions as a class, following the prototype Miss Kay made and spotting her mistakes! We then had a turn at making the lever mechanism ourselves. We followed each instruction carefully and all successfully made a lever to show Jack and his beanstalk! We accurately measured specific lengths and cut all the parts correctly. We recapped on the importance of safety whilst using scissors and putting split pins through pieces of paper and card. We then discussed the key parts of the mechanism such as the arm and pivot.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 8:06am
Yesterday, we took part in no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we were starting to look at present and past tense verbs; we did a loop card game to start before we sorted verbs and sentences into past and present tense. In Maths, we started our new unit of money, we counted pence to find different amounts and matched it to the correct price label.
Year 5 - Digital Literacy No Pen Morning
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm
To develop our digital literacy skills, pupils at Boundary spent the morning completing maths and writing lessons using only digital devices. For reading into writing, pupils used their chromebooks to publish their creation stories from Aboriginal culture. For maths, pupils used the BBC Micro:bits to create a rock, paper, scissors game. This was the first time pupils have used these tiny computers, and they even improved the code to reset after each turn, display a welcome message when the device was turned on, and make sound effects!
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 1:28pm
In Year 4, we were introduced to a multiplication competition on a website called Emile first thing this morning and we did lots of times tables to gain points for our school. Then we went on a typing skills website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr#zn9s3qt) where we put on headphones and practised some typing skills. After we learnt typing skills, we learned how to use some of the skills on Google Docs (e.g bold, italic). We then used these skills to highlight some of the features of a Newspaper report like we have been doing in Reading into Writing. In Maths, some children matched 3D and 2D shapes into the correct columns on a worksheet. Everyone else continued their work on multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 6:00pm
Today we focussed on understanding 10. We recapped counting to 20 from different starting points, both forwards and backwards before looking in-depth at the number 10. We used a range of resources such as, base 10, counters, cubes, tens frames and Numicon to investigate 10. We made 10 using either 2 or 3 parts and wrote the corresponding addition sum. Some of us then moved on to investigating 10 further with our number mats. We wrote the number in words, identified the tens and ones, displayed 10 on a part part whole, found one more and one less and identified if the number 10 is odd or even.
Year 6 - Textiles (felt mobile phone cases)
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 3:38pm
This week we have carried out a full journey of textiles. We began with discussing what we already knew about sewing and textiles and discussed key vocabulary. We then began looking at felt products that already exist and evaluating them. We then practised a range of stitches using Binca - we practised running stitch, back stitch, over stich and blanket stitch. After that, we planned and designed our own mobile phone cases using an agreed success criteria. To ensure our plan was effective, we created a prototype and then evaulated the product so that changes could be made if needed. Finally, we made our final product.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:48am
We really tested our tired Christmas brains this morning! Miss Crystal and Miss Bates were really proud of how well we worked together to solve this NRich problem.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:22pm
Today we used Geoboards to create different 2-D shapes. We had to count the vertices and the sides to check that we had made the correct 2-D shape. We could see that, apart from squares, the same 2-D shapes can look very different but they must have shared properties - For example, all hexagons must have 6 vertices and 6 straight sides but these sides do not have to be an equal length.
Year 3- Mastering multiplication !
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:28am
In Year 3, we have been looking at multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1- digit number (no exchange). The children used place value charts, base ten and counters to visually see the multiplication.
