The Tiny Seed We have had a lovely week in Nursery this week. We have carried on our topic of ‘growing’ ‘changing’ and ‘enchanted gardens’ and looked at how to grow seeds. Our main story has been ‘The Tiny Seed’. The children have enjoyed exploring different kinds of seeds in fruits and vege
This week we have been looking at angles and the properties of shapes. We have been looking for acute, obtuse and right angles, along with describing shapes by the angles that they have. Next we will be looking at the sides – discussing parallel, converging, diverging and whether they are equal
Continuing our topic on the ‘Great Outdoors’, this week, we found out all about ladybirds. We listened to the story, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and discussed how the animals managed to trick the robbers and save the prize cow. We looked at the map of the farm that the robbers had
We have been working on data and statistics in maths this week, looking at different ways data can be presented, recorded and then interpreted. We also squeezed in a conversation about protecting our data and being careful about what we share. In Maths we started with pie charts, bar charts and tw
In Maths this week, the boys and girls have been learning how to multiply a single digit number by a two digit number. They represented the calculation in two different ways: as a repeated addition calculation and a multiplication calculation. The children used place value counters to represent th
Year One have been extremely busy this week learning to count all the way up to 50. The children enjoyed counting forwards and backwards and also learnt how to write the numbers down in digit form. During the week, the children were able to use counting equipment such as counters and tens and ones t
Linking to the fractions work Year 5 have been undertaking recently, this week we have begun working on decimals! We started by looking at fractions with denominators of 10 or 100, and how we can turn these into fractions, which we found really easy! After that we looked at denominators such as 25 a
In Year 2 this week. we have been learning all about multiplication. We started by doubling numbers, which was a bit tricky until we realised all of the answers are in our 2x tables! After that, we used number lines and hundred squares to colour in our multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s. We spotted lot
This week in Reception, we have been learning all about St George’s Day and celebrating the Queen’s birthday. As part of our theme we learnt all about the country that we live in. We read a great story called ‘Me on The Map’ by Joan Sweeney which introduced the basic concept of using a map. We
This week, Year 6 have been doing a lot of number work. This has involved them using formal written methods and recapping how to use BODMAS to work out the order of calculations. On Friday, this was put to the test in a challenge with their partner, where they played mental maths ‘Four in a Row.’ Th
