To celebrate World Maths Day, Marvellous Magical Dave visited Holy Trinity to teach us some Maths. Paddington Bears had a great time learning about shapes and measures. They all showed great knowledge of shapes and really enjoyed using the fun, interactive equipment to support their learning.
Maths
115 posts
The Sumdog.com Essex contest concluded at 8.00pm this evening. I am delighted (and proud) to announce that Holy Trinity Primary School finished in 1st place! Well done to everyone who took part, we are very proud of you. The final leader board will appear in tomorrow’s newsletter! Mr Smith
Every week we award a ‘Top Dog’ certificate to the pupil who has worked the hardest on Sumdog.com, either by answering the most number of questions or achieving the highest percentage of correct answers. This week our weekly winner is Alfie Adams. Over a period of 7 days Alfie answered […]
Great news, we are top of the Essex Leader board in the latest Sumdog contest. Keep playing and stack up the points!
Miss Barthorpe has been working with Class H on Thursday mornings to make the buildings we have been writing about in Literacy. The children had to make the frame of their houses from the cardboard nets of 3D shapes before covering them with Mod Roc. Finally they were painted and […]
Class M concluded the construction of the Bee Bot City today and then dived straight into using it with the Bee Bots! Bee Bots are programmable roamers/robots and they enable children to show a basic level of IT control whilst also exploring mathematical estimation, planning and instruction.
Brilliant News! Holy Trinity are now ranked 13th in the National Contest with just one day remaining! Class M and Class S are leading the way with some fantastic scores. The table below shows the pupils with the most number of correct answers so far… If you haven’t logged on […]
There are still three days remaining in the latest sumdog.com national contest. At the moment (12.20pm) Holy Trinity are in 18th place in the national standings! The school leaderboard has changed a little over the weekend: In order to keep our challenge going we need more pupils to log on […]
If your children are stuck for something to do, you have access to the internet at home and you’d like to see them improve their maths skills then look no further than sumdog.com! Holy Trinity have recently subscribed to the website: www.sumdog.com and it is great for improving children’s mental […]
Well done everyone who has logged onto Sumdog.com! Here’s our current school leaderboard… Keep logging on, the National Contest hasn’t finished yet! Good luck, Mr Smith
Holy Trinity are currently in 23rd place in the national Sumdog contest – if you’re looking for something to do this afternoon log on and help our school climb the leaderboard! The more pupils who log in and have a go, the higher we will finish!
We have made the leaderboard! Holy Trinity are in 29th place in the National Contest, if you haven’t joined up, please do! Go to the link on the Tabecat page…
The UK national contest on Sumdog starts tomorrow (30.11.12) at 8:00am! Here are some things to keep in mind during the contest: – To be fair to schools of all sizes, schools are ranked on the average number of correct answers. – Only 15 students from our school need to […]
Sumdog.com is a website where children can improve and test their mathematical skills against children from around the World! I have set up accounts for all children in Year 1 – 6. Their usernames and passwords will be coming home soon on small printed cards (they are identical to their […]
All of the children worked really hard to bake and decorate some delicious biscuits. They weighed out their ingredients, mixed them together and then used sweets to decorate the biscuits to look like pigs. As you can see, the finished biscuits looked fantastic and the children informed me they tasted […]
After Class H’s Stonehenge yesterday here’s Class R’s version, complete with coloured stones and printed grass!
Combining their study of iconic buildings with work on 3D shapes Class H have made a model of Stonehenge from cuboids they have made themselves! With a bit of luck we’ll see Class R’s model soon too!
On Wednesday 4th July after school we held a transition meeting aimed mainly at parents/carers of pupils moving between Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 and Key Stages 1 & 2. For those who were unable to make the meeting the presentation meeting used by Mr. Smith is available to […]
On the 14th May to the 17th May both Year 6 and Year 2 did their SATs. SATs are tests to show how well we’ve been doing in our years in school. SATs stands for Standard Assessment Tests they usually last 45 minutes however, one test lasts 1 whole hour! […]
Congratulations to 6 of our children who took part in the local Key Stage Two ‘Gifted and Talented’ Maths Challenge: Ellee Su, Jarad Gribbin, Kai Thrower, Emily Hubbard, Chloe-Louise Baker and Madison Burns. A special well done must go to Kai Thrower – Kai was part of a mixed team […]
Maths-Science week is taking place between 20th and 24th June and is absolutely packed with fun and exciting learning opportunities. You can keep up-to-date with what’s going on as the week progresses by visiting www.holytrinityhalstead.com/maths-science-week-2011/ but here’s a rundown on everything that’s happening… Monday The whole school will taking part […]
Dear Parents, Carers and Children The maths challenges in the school newsletters are proving very popular. To build on this popularity we will be starting a ‘Maths Premier League’ or ‘MPL’ – for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two children. We will be publishing a regular MPL ‘leaderboard’ – […]
There are lots of things going on at school at the moment and this post is a combined request for a variety of things so… Please send in…Plastic Milk Bottle Tops! Paddington Bear and Caterpillar classes are collecting plastic milk bottle tops to use during maths lessons. If we get […]