The children had a challenge to tackle at Maths Games night this evening. Could they complete 5 activities to earn themselves a certificate? The children were amazingly dedicated to the task and wanted to try everything! Well done adults for keeping up with your children’s energy!
Lots of measuring, number tracks, skittles, big board games, dominoes, doubling bingo, comparing cube quantities, comparing mass, reading stories for Maths!
Although we love playing in the Reception sandpit it has been looking a little bare recently! Today we started helping Mr Carter move the …8 TONS of sand into the pit. We didn’t even manage to move half a bag and we had already moved 7 wheelbarrows full. Havyar was great at smoothing the sand out in the barrow to fit in as much sand as possible! Lots of children were keen to help us load the barrow with sand!
Year 6 children taking part in the Primary Maths Challenge First Round! We really enjoyed getting that grey matter working and being resilient in our problem-solving!
Lots of children and their adults met in the hall for a fun-packed 45 minutes of Maths games and activities!
We’ve been very busy in our first 8 weeks in Reception consolidating some of our early number work we may have learnt at Nursery and taking our subitising and pattern spotting into all of our areas of provision! Here’s just a tiny snapshot into what we’ve been up to!
Games of dominoes to practise our number recognition.
Jonathan working on his snakes and ladders game – writing the digits all the way to 43!
Outdoor pattern exploration!
30 lucky Year 6s spent the morning at Maths City yesterday as the prize from a Maths competition at GSAL before the summer. The children had a fantastic morning accompanied by Mrs Stott and Mrs Bentley. There was time to explore the different areas before the children came together to build a Leonardo Dome.
This afternoon 8 fantastic Mathematicians from Years 4 and 5 took part in the National Mathematics Challenge area heats. Relying on team work and fast mental maths they worked in 2 teams to beat the quizmaster.
The power of manipulatives in Year 5…within 5 minutes of using our manipulatives in today’s lesson we had already addressed children creating area instead of perimeter, leaving gaps between cubes and creating a square with completely equal sides.
Hands-on Maths is a super power!
We finally received the certificates for the Primary Maths Bonus round this week. Well done to those children who took part and a special well done to Harrison who won a bronze award!
Year 4 have been out supervising the builder’s on the field today. Can you guess what they are building?
We found out that we would have to run around this 8 times to complete our ‘Daily…’
