On Friday, we completed our STEM Week with an exciting visit from Subject Revolution. KS1 and EYFS travelled around an amazing new world working together in practical maths challenges to help Prince Lunimo tidy up for the Queen. The children worked to pass through each maths challenge zone, undetected by the invading […]
Maths
74 posts
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
Jeudi dernier, l’année 5 a pris un petit-déjeuner français et a fait semblant de gérer nos propres restaurants. Les enfants ont dû utiliser un menu français pour rédiger les reçus et calculer le total de la facture, etc.
Year 4 have been outside today creating their own angles using sticks and chalking on the playground whilst identifying obtuse, acute and right-angles.
Year 4 have been learning to tell the time to specific minutes, converting 12hr to 24hr time and solving time related problems. Many have realised how important it is to be able to tell the time – especially, analogue!
As part of our topic on the the circulatory system Kestrel Class made blood to help us remember the components that make up our blood, and the functions of each of them. We calculated the percentage blood parts we would need to represent: 55% Plasma , 44% red blood cells […]
Today Year 4 have been adding fractions using Numicon. They have also been learning how to convert a mixed number to an improper fraction.
Sumdog is a fun & fantastic mental maths platform featuring adaptive learning. It adapts to each pupil individually and delivers curriculum-aligned questions targeted to each pupil’s level. This means that it’s great for children across the school!* Today we are launching a 10-A-Day March Sumdog Challenge! Everyone getting 310 (10-a-day) answers correct […]
Last week Panther Class took part in a simulation game, pretending to be Viking traders trying to ensure the prosperity of their trading centre. They learned about what, how, and where the Vikings traded and, after preparing their goods and creating a ‘shopping list’, they travelled across Europe buying and […]
Year 5 have been exploring division using Numicon! They worked in groups so they could explain their thinking to each other.
Kestrels have been really busy preparing and creating their stalls ready for the PTFA Christmas Bazaar on Friday 7th December!
During a varied day, Panther Class have been busy making their Anglo Saxon brooches out of clay and getting to grips with long multiplication!
The children in Giraffe Class have had a wonderful day of learning. Pirates arrived in our classroom this morning and asked the children to read messages in a bottles. The children then engaged in a range of pirate activities, including writing maps, writing messages in a bottle, pirate role play […]
Class LM have been measuring distance and length around school as part of their imperial and metric measures work!
Science/Maths Investigation. What is the oldest tree in the sensory garden? We can find out by measuring the circumference of the trunk. First we practised by measuring our own trunks!
Flamingo Class have been learning about using the language of direction by playing a pirate treasure hunt game!
Year 5 were put into groups and given 1 hour to make their floor robots do amazing things. Here are the (speeded up) results…
An Essex-wide Sumdog Competition starts tomorrow at 8am! It lasts until 8pm on Thursday 17th November and is open to every pupil in the school. We’re up against classes from the schools listed below, and all you have to do to enter is answer as many questions as you can during […]
On the last day of Maths Week the children have enjoying a pirate-themed show about the four mathematical functions.