Mathematics
Mathematics
Multiplication Tables Check
Dear Parents/Guardians, In June of this year, our Year 4 children will undertake the Multiplication Tables Check. This is to assess how confident and competent they are at their times tables. The children are always practising their times tables, and we teach them...
Pumpkins and Spiders!
This week we have counted insects, printed spider paintings, made cups of tea with spider juice and explored the inside of a pumpkin. We have been talking, sharing and having fun!
Reading With Rabbit and Maths Counting Fun!
Here are some of the things we have been learning over the last few weeks. The children have been reading a favourite book to 'Reading Rabbit' and talking about the characters. We have been using our phonic skills to blend words and then used the magnets and boards to...
Maths week 2022
All year groups enjoyed a full week of Maths activities this week from Maths escape rooms to shape challenges - it got everyone thinking!
TT Rockstars … class challenge
During our Maths week, there was an exciting TT Rockstars class to class Maths challenge. Year 5 got to battle it out against each other whilst practising their times tables at the same time - it was all very tense in the hall.
Mastery Maths with Tim Kirk … teachers learn too!
Staff have been working alongside the Lancashire Maths team and Tim Kirk to work on Maths planning, teaching arithmetic and using apparatus effectively in lessons. A recent Maths walk through had pleasing results with Tim expressing how the teaching of Arithmetic in...
Number Day!
It was Number Day recently and we had a great day exploring numbers at school. Firstly, we looked at some data handling and create a human graph in class to show how many children were in groups of shoe sizes. We then completed a carousel of outdoor activities...
Number day 2022
The children have had a great time bringing Maths to life during Number day today. They have been battling it out with their times tables during a class to class competition as well as creating human graphs and pictograms. Team theme also got involved creating...
Shapes Everywhere!
We have been creating patterns using 2D shapes and sorting shapes into different categories in Maths. We have also had fun linking our Computing lessons with Maths. We used the camera app to take photos of 2D and 3D shapes around our school building.
Shape up!
We had some shape detectives in Year 2 as we sorted 2-D and 3-D shapes using Venn diagrams. We looked at the number of edges, sides and vertices that a shape had, what the face of the shape looked like or what type of shape it was.We even included real life shapes...