Maths: Blog items
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 12:11pm
Today, we began to find ¾ of an amount by using a bar model to help us. We split our bar model into 4 equal parts and shared counters accurately. Then we had to count how many was in 3 groups to find the answer.
Date: 10th May 2023 @ 6:54pm
Today we worked on becoming more confident with doubling numbers up to 20 and began to explore doubles beyond 20. Independently, we built doubles and explained what a double is using objects, mathematical resources and pictures, using the STEM sentence ‘double __ is __’ to reinforce our understanding.
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:43am
Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell left us a gift of some slime! The chilldren had a great time exploring the slime and it initiated some wonderful converstaions with the children. They used some great words to describe the slime such as "stretchy, sticky, boingy and bouncy". They were fascinated watching the slime stretch and talked about how long their slime was and whose was longer. The slime also provided a super work out for the childrens fingers with all the pulling, stretching, poking a rolling.
Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 6:48pm
Today we learnt how to count in steps of 5 using different representations, including tens frames, dice and 50 square. We began our lesson by reading the story ‘Starry Arms – Counting in 5s.’ As a class we then practised lots of examples together orally to practise our skills. We continued to use language associated with multiplication, for example ‘there are __ equal groups of 5, there are __ altogether. We answered key questions, including how many groups of 5 are there? What number is this? How many groups of 5 are there in __?
Nursery Explore Planting Seeds
Date: 27th Apr 2023 @ 11:28am
Nursery have been exploring growth and change and this week we have been learning about planting seeds. We read the story "Jasper's Beanstalk" about a cat who finds a bean and plants it in his garden. We planted our own beans and we really hope they grow in to giant beanstalks! We talked about how to look after our beans and that they need soil, water and sunlight to help them grow. Our planting didn't stop there! We have been very busy planting sunflowers in our outdoor classroom. We also used different construction toys to see who could build the tallest beanstalk - we had some whoopers! We explored shape by making our own Jasper using triangles and circles.
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 6:37pm
Today we measured and compared the capacity of different containers using non-standard units of measure. We recapped on our understanding of the word capacity and understood that this is how much of something it can hold. We then watched Miss Kay measuring the capacity of a container, making sure the units of measure remain the same and measuring the capacity accurately by filling the container to the top. We recognised that by finding the capacity of different containers, we could work out which containers have a greater capacity and how we know this. We then compared more than 2 containers, putting them in either ascending or descending order of capacity.
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 11:55am
Today, we continued our fractions unit by practicing finding thirds by sharing amounts into three equal parts. We used counters and carefully checked we had split them into equal parts then counted the answer. We used our prior knowledge of finding halves and quarters as well as our division knowledge of sharing equally.
Reception Jack and the Beanstalk Number
Date: 25th Apr 2023 @ 8:15pm
This week in Reception the children have been completing a number of different maths activities based around the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The have been using the leaves to build at beanstalk up to twenty practicing counting on and back accurately. They have been using the part, part whole model to explore different ways of composing numbers to 10 and recording their work as a calculation. The children have also been making their own addition and subtraction calculations by picking two numbers. They then used the resources avaliable to help them work out the answers and record their work as a calculation.
Nursery The Hungry Very Caterpillar
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 8:31pm
We have throughly enjoyed reading the classic story by Eric Carle "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Through the story the chidlren have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly, looked at the symmetry of butterfly wings, counted the food the caterpillar ate each day and used the light box to explore the red and green colours of the caterpillar.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 6:40pm
Today we learnt to measure in cm. We learnt that you have to line up the item you are measuring at 0 and that each mark is 1cm. We practised measuring straight lines first, before moving on to measuring objects around the classroom.
Date: 2nd Apr 2023 @ 3:28pm
It's wonderful when a certain activity really engages children and you can see their skills developing. One of our nursery superstars has really enjoyed exploring the constructuion area recently and has been working really hard to develop his skills. He has gone from building simple towers, to adding features to his towers and is now able to build with a purpose in mind - this week he has made a train! Amazing work!
Date: 2nd Apr 2023 @ 3:19pm
Nursery began their Easter celebrations with lots of fun activites. The chlldren loved exploring the Easter sensory tray and have been building their fine motor muscles by putting small chicks in eggs, using tweezers to pick uo Easter pom poms and putting pegs on numbered Easter Bunnies. There have been lots of fun Easter crafts and an Easter themed maths table - we've had en eggcellent time!
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 11:57am
Today, we continued our measures unit by exploring the capacity of a variety of containers. Before we began, we predicted how many cups we thought each container would need to reach full capacity. Then, we tested how many cups it took to fill each container to full capacity. We learnt that container F (the jug) had the largest capacity as it took 17 cups to fill but container E had the smallest capacity because it only took half a cup to fill.
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 4:35pm
This week we have been learning all about shapes in nursery. We have been identifying a square, rectangle, triangle and circle and have started to learn the properties of each shape. The children have explored shape through printing, buildling, sorting and by finding shapes in everyday objects. We have also been looking at how we can arrange shapes to make pictures and have created a rocket and a house using shapes.
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 2:28pm
Today in computing we have used all that we have learned so far to create name plaques and pencil pots. To do this we had to learn how to resize objects as well as creating holes in objects to allow items to be placed inside. We are really enjoying this unit of work and are looking forward to creating more in the next couple of weeks.
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 4:43pm
Today, we continued our wheels and axles unit by practicing our marking our skills ensuring we measured our lines accurately to ensure it would fit on our vehicle. Also, we practiced accurately and neatly cutting out our markings ready to be stuck on our vehicle. We are looking forward to beginning building our moving vehicles next week!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:32pm
Over the last few weeks, children in year 5 have been learning how to find the perimeter and area of rectangles and compound shapes. In this lesson, pupils had to use what they have learned to estimate the area of irregular shapes, and find the difference between their areas.
Year 6 - French (school subjects)
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:04pm
Nursery Find Some Poo in the Zoo
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 11:37am
It's not everyday you go to school and are allowed to talk about poo but that's exactly what happened this week in nursery! We read the story "Poo in the Zoo" all about a zoo keeper who is always cleaning up the animals poop. That is until one day when an Iguana eats some fireflies and ends up doing an amazing glowing poo! The zoo keeper sells the magical poo to Hector Gloop who collects poo (yuk!) and buys himself a Robot Pooper Scooper with the money! The children really enjoyed the story and made their own magical poos, counted poos, and painted some tiger stripes. We talked about herbivores and carniviores and added leafs to the playdough to create herbivore poo. For health and safety puproses, no real poo was used the process!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 11:24am
Nursery took part in science day by exploring space through art, maths and music. They created a wonderful piece of collaborative art work showing a super outer space scene. They then created their own space pictures. Using shapes, the children then made some 3D rockets. They thought carefully about the shapes they would need and where to put them. To end the day, the children enjoyed a space themed music session. They sang "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" and sent planets soaring in to the air using the parachute!
Date: 15th Mar 2023 @ 12:01pm
Today, we continued our measuring journey by practicing measuring in metres. We discussed appropriate things to measure using a metre ruler before going outside and using our ruler to mark 1m, move the ruler along and measure another metre for longer objects.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:00pm
In today's lesson we had our second lesson on Tinkercad. This involved placing shapes onto a plane and change the heights and widths of each shape. We then experimented with adding shapes on top of others and group them to create one shape. We are becoming much more proficient at using Tinkercad.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:26am
We have been readig the story "Dear Zoo" and have enjoyed exploring all the animals from the story. The children have investigated farm animals and zoo animals and sorted them in to two groups and they have made up stories about zoo animals using the zoo small world. The children have painted some wonderful pictures of zoo animals and made some swirly snakes. Outside they built cages for animals using magnetic shapes, made playdough zoo animals and created some food for the animals.
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 6:32pm
Today we consolidated our understanding of tens and ones. We worked together to practise counting the number of groups of ten and then the ones to find the total. We then chose a number card and used a range of resources, including Numicon, Base ten, place value counters and counters to represent the number.
We verbalised the STEM sentence ‘there are __ groups of 10 and __ more, there are __ objects in total.
‘I have made 41 all these different ways. There are 4 groups of ten and 1 more, there are 41 in total’
‘There are 2 groups of ten and 9 more, there are 29 in total’
Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 1:02pm
Today we learnt about fact families and related facts. After our previous learning exploring addition and subtraction separately, today we looked at how they relate to each other. We used both concrete resources and pictures to find the links between addition and subtraction operations. We reinforced the fact that addition can be done in any order, whereas subtraction cannot. We then explored fact families independently, using the given pictures to create our two parts and work out the whole number.
