Blog by Tag: Maths

This week the children baked cookies together. We talked about the different ingredients and followed the instructions to make delicious chocolate chip cookies. We used scales to measure the ingredients and mixed and stirred using wooden spoons and whisks. The children then used their hands to…

We have been inspired to make some art with nature by finding out about the work of artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.  After collecting Autumn treasures at home, we have used these to create.  We have made faces, patterns and even our own trees.  We have been developing our vocabulary around…

Year 1 Maths- count backwards from 10

We have been learning to count backwards from 10 using multiple-links. 

Today the children used their understanding of place value in order to solve a range of problems.

The children used skills such as partioning, ordering and rounding numbers in order to find the correct solutions.

The children have been looking for signs of autumn and have brought their ‘autumn treasures’ to show their friends. They have collected leaves, conkers, pine cones, berries, twigs and seeds. Once child brought in a pumpkin which she had grown in her allotment, This  sparked conversations about…

Today we looked at comparing large numbers whilst playing the game ‘Higher or Lower’. The children read different numbers before deciding if the next number would be higher or lower. 

Year 1 Representing Objects 

We have been learning to represent objects using counters and tens frames. Well done Year 1!

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! 
 

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.  

Today we worked in pairs to identify and represent numbers up to 10,000.

The numbers were presented in a range of different ways.

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…

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…