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!

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…’

In our Reading this week we have been looking at sea creatures including whale sharks. We thought it might be best to get outside and measure out the 20m a whale shark can grow up to. We were amazed at the size and horrified at the thought of it heading our way with its mouth open wide!

Before beginning our Fractions unit for Year 4 we have been exploring the relationships between different Cuisenaire rods. It was really interesting to hear lots of the Maths talk around the room ‘This one is equal to two of the green rods.’. ‘I notice they all equal the same amount when you put them together.’

This was really useful to get children thinking about fractions as equal units and the concept of wholes of different sizes.

In Year 4 we have been creating night lights today as our D&T of this half term. We did some product research; considered our target audience and designed our prototypes. We then gathered our resources and got stuck in with feathers, beads, paper, card and paint!

Today, 12 amazing Mathematicians from Year 6 went with Mrs Tatam-Hall and Mrs Ebrahimi to Maths City in Leeds City Centre.
We had an incredible time exploring all their fantastic exhibits.

We worked together to build an enormous Leonardo dome which we were able to sit under and then destroy together!

Year 3 fought the good fight at the weekend making Allerton CE the top scoring school in Leeds for both Saturday and Sunday – congratulations Year 3!