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Whole School- Design Technolgy
This half term, our students have been busy creating a range of designs in Design Technology. From Reception's wooden Christmas decorations to Year 6's electronic steady hand games, our children have showcased their imaginative and creativity skills. Year 1 brought their imaginations to life, creating interactive moving storybooks using slider mechanisms. Year 2 developed their sewing skills, designing and creating a range of Christmas puppets. Year 3 designed and made festive pouches, perfect for holding small gifts or treats. Year 4 stitched up Christmas stockings, ready to hang by the chimney, finally, Year 5 created festive cushions. These creations were showcased and sold at our Christmas Fayre. We're incredibly proud of the hard work and imagination our students have demonstrated in these festive DT projects.
Year 3- Maths- Making arrays using counters
This week in Maths, Year 3 mathematicians have been deepening their understanding of arrays by working with counters. They’ve practiced arranging counters into rows and columns, exploring a variety of combinations. Using concrete materials has made their learning both engaging and enjoyable, helping to reinforce key concepts effectively.
Reception Maths - Composition
Reception watched an episode of Numberblocks where the different numbers used different shapes to make patterns. We have been thinking about parts that make up numbers, so we had a go at making our own numberblock shape patterns and discussed the parts we could see.
Year 4 - Maths: Three Times Tables
Teamwork was key in our maths session today. In celebration of No Pens Day, our maths included a combination of singing, matching, playing online games and puzzle solving. We learned the three times tables and used this knowledge to create fact families. Our extension activity today was to complete a three times table Tarsia. It proved to be more difficult than they first thought, but it certainly challenged them.
Year 3- NO PENS DAY - Litter picking- Brainbox games-What can you remember in just 10 seconds?
Today, Year 3 celebrated No Pens Day thanks to our Smart School Council. They combined learning by litter picking, demonstrating teamwork, communication, and a strong sense of kindness and spirituality. They even discussed how God and the community would be pleased with their efforts. In the classroom, they paired up for a fun game of BrainBox, boosting their memory, observation skills, and understanding of math and reading. Oracy skills were embedded throughout the day, as students listened attentively, took turns to talk, and engaged in thoughtful discussions.
Year 1 Maths- Finding a Part
In maths, we have been focusing on finding a part. To do this, we had to look at the part we were given and then work out how many more we needed to count on in order to make the whole. We also figured out that we could do this by finding the difference between the whole and the part that we were given.
Reception- Maths-More and Fewer
In maths we were using the pan balance to compare more and fewer. We had a discussion about what ‘fewer’ could mean. Beau said “it means less” and Marnie-May said “it means there aren’t as much”. We put an uneven amount of cubes in each side of the pan balance and watched what happened. The children observed that the side with fewer cubes ‘went up’ and the side with more cubes ‘went down’.
Year 2- Maths- Adding across a 10
Our focus this week in maths, was adding across a 10. This can be tricky as it requires an exchange from ones to tens. We have used base 10 to help us work out the answers. As we have practiced more and more, we are becoming much more confident and becoming much more familiar with the steps of the additions.
Year 1 Maths- Addition Sentences
This week in maths, Year 1 have been focusing on creating and writing addition sentences within 10. Today, they used their ten frames to make numbers in various ways e.g. making 6 using 6 + 0 and 0 + 6, 5 + 1 and 1 + 5 and so on. They did a tremendous job. Well done Year 1.
Reception - Cardinality pizza maths
In Maths this week we have been reviewing accurate counting by making pizzas! The children had to roll a dice, check the number and count the correct amount of toppings for the pizza, remembering our stopping number.
Year 4 - Maths: Subtraction
Our place value grids are coming in very useful in maths this week. We’ve been learning how to subtract two 4-digit numbers, working up to making exchanges. In order to understand the concept of exchanges, we drew out the problem and crossed off the counters. Then we could see if there wasn’t enough to take from a column and adjusted accordingly. We will continue to develop this technique across the week.
Year 5 - Square Numbers
Year 5 got hands-on with square numbers, building visual models to understand how these numbers are formed. Through arranging objects into perfect squares, they explored the patterns and concepts behind square numbers with enthusiasm and curiosity!