Times Table Fun!
This week year 4 have been working really hard on their times tables! We started we our 3s, then 6s and 9s. The children have loved working practically to create their own arrays with counters, writing on the tables makes everything much more exciting too!
Let’s Play in Nursery A!
This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children. They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.
Numbers to 10,000
Today we worked in pairs to identify and represent numbers up to 10,000.
The numbers were presented in a range of different ways.
Holy Family High School Taster Day
Year 5 spent the day attending a taster day at Holy Family High School.
They took part in a range of lessons: Mathematics, P.E and Cooking.
The children had a brilliant time and enjoyed the experience of what a day might look like at secondary school.
A special thanks to all the staff and…
Nursery A went to the beach today!
Today we visited Formby Beach and Pinewoods. We linked our visit to the book The See Saw by Tom Percival. The children had a little picnic and time to play in the sand. We spent time walking, talking, climbing, digging, rolling, laughing and singing! There were some very sleepy children on the…
Water between our fingers and sand between our toes!
This week’s warm weather has called for a variety of sand and water play in nursery. The children have enjoyed exchanging wellies for bare feet in the sand and have explored pouring, funnelling and spooning water both in indoor and outdoor water play. The children have been cooperating in much…
Eau de Nursery!
Some of the children in Nursery A have been busy mixing, pouring, creating and enhancing today. They decided that they would like to make their own nursery perfume. They added vanilla and cinnamon to the water, glitter and daisy flower recipe to create their own fragrance.…
Ice-cream Day in Nursery A
Over the past few weeks we have opened a preteen ice-cream shop outside nursery. The children have loved playing shop, requesting their favourite favours and toppings, writing down orders, giving money and change and creating imaginary tasty treats. Today it was time to do it for real! What a…
Counting in Nursery
Today some of our nursery children worked together to order the number squares 1 to 10. Lots of number conversations could be heard!
Repeated A, B, A, B patterns
We have been noticing patterns around us and talking about repeated patterns. Using loose parts in the nursery the children have been creating their own repeated patterns.
Number in Nursery
The children had the opportunity to show off their counting skills this week. They are very proud of themselves!
What shape?
To consolidate our learning of properties of different shapes, the pupils played in small groups a game of ‘What shape?’
By asking yes or no questions, the children had to solve which shape the other person had selected.
After playing the game, we discussed which were the best kind of…