Blog by Tag: Maths

Year 3 have been studying Mandalas in Art and so we decided to create our own natural mandalas today. Gathering natural objects and arranging them in circular patterns was great fun. Nature is so colourful! 
We also consolidated our 2 D shape knowledge when we created different 2D shapes using…

Year 2 attended a STEAM event, delivered by the Centre for Leadership Performance, at Westlakes Academy. They took part in workshops from Arco, Sellafield, React Engineering, Amentum, Nuclear Waste Services,  BAE and Balfour Beatty. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about all the jobs they…

Beginning our topic of ‘Bears’, the children have been exploring oats with different sized teddies, spoons and bowls. They filled, poured, stirred and mixed using the language of small, medium and big. 
 

Year 1 have been exploring Tens and Ones using Base Ten equipment to enhance their understanding. In partners they used Part Whole Models to explore partitioning Tens and Ones. Everyone grasped partitioning and enjoyed creating their own questions for their partner to answer using the Base 10…

Our Nursery children have been practising their bowling skills, while also counting one to one. They had to see how many skittles they could knock down with the ball, then count the skittles and record how many with lines. Mrs Palmer was there to help with the recording, but the children counted…

Year 1 enjoyed celebrating Number Day with some help from Year 6. They enjoyed playing a selection of number based games together. It was lots of fun rolling the dice and counting along in Snakes and Ladders but not so much fun sliding down the snakes! Year 6 supported the children when needed and…

Year 2 had a great time completing some number based puzzles to celebrate Number Day. 
 

Nursery celebrated number day by singing lots of Nursery rhymes, including 1,2,3,4,5 and 10 monkeys jumping on the bed. They also made some chocolate cupcakes and decorated them using icing pens with their favourite number. Yummy!

Year 3 have been playing shape and place value guessing games, going for gold and solving number problems today. Happy Number Day!
 

Year 5 had a fantastic Numeracy Day today, playing times tables bingo and taking their long multiplication outside by practising on the playground with chalk.

Today, Year 4 took part in Number Day, where they engaged in a range of activities focused on times tables and multiplication facts. The day included a variety of games designed to reinforce key number skills while encouraging participation and teamwork.

The children then created their own…

This morning, our Year 6 class joined the Year 1 children to celebrate Number Day with lots of fun maths games. The older pupils did a fantastic job supporting the younger ones, helping them count and number play games. Everyone especially enjoyed spending time together, where there were plenty of…