This term in Maths, we are diving into fractions. This week, our focus has been on representing unit fractions in various ways and identifying parts and wholes in different contexts, both in shapes and quantities....
In Maths this week, we have been learning about the value of one penny. We used real coins to give two children pocket money of an equal value. We noticed similarities and differences between one pence coins. For example, some had a picture of a...
We have been learning about time. We have been using clocks to learn how to tell the time. We made o’clock times and half past times by pointing the minute hand to twelve and six. We moved our fingers in a clockwise direction. We really...
In Nursery, we learned how to sequence real events using words such as "First" and "Then", as well as their Makaton signs. We made jam sandwiches in small groups and we sequenced the 6 steps to make one. We finally enjoyed eating them! It was...
This term in maths, we're exploring how the 2, 4 and 8 times tables are related. In our maths lesson this week, we investigated multiplication and division fact families specifically linked to the 8 times table....
In year 6 this week, we have been completing our mock SATs exams. As a way to unwind from these tests, we took the afternoon to complete some symmetry paintings inspired by the artist Belynda Henry. We painted and folded our page to create a...
In Maths, we practised building doubles from 12 to 18. We then halved these numbers. We learnt that half is one of two equal groups. We used cubes to represent each equal group....
Year 6 have been focusing on equivalence, in Maths. We began the week looking at equivalent fractions and drawing these on a number line. We challenged ourselves by writing as many different equivalent fractions as we could think of....
In Maths we began our learning about numbers from 11-19. We made teen numbers using the unifix cubes. We pointed to the tens and the ones and said how many of each there were. We understand that all ten numbers have one ten in them....
In maths this week, Year 6 worked on different multi-step problems. We spent some of the lessons working on multi-step problems with money and finding change. We began this through playing a loop card game, where we had to connect the question with the answer....