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Year 4 Maths Fluency - Creating Challenges
Year 4 continue to work hard on their times tables and have been using dice to create multiplication problems to challenge their partner. It was a fun way to practise our times tables and test our multiplication knowledge!
Year 5 Maths - Using Place Value Counters to Help with Multiplication
This week, Year 5 began mastering the complex process of long multiplication. To build a strong foundation, we first revisited short multiplication (4 digits by 1 digit), using place value counters and repeated addition to visualize the concept. Once this was secured, the children successfully transitioned to the formal written method. Feeling confident, they progressed to multiplying 2-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers—initially using the grid method to see the products before moving on to the more abstract formal column method.
Year 4 Maths Fluency - Creating Challenges
This week in our Maths Fluency sessions, Year 4 have been putting their times table knowledge to the test, by completing and creating multiplication problems for others with dice. It was an exciting race between partners, to see who could complete their grid the quickest and also lots of fun!
Year 6: Maths - Ratio
This week in maths year 6 have begun to learn about ratio, we have been pattern spotting and thinking about whether we need to add or multiply numbers to continue the sequence. L.O: To calculate using additive or multiplicative structures.
Year 2 Maths: Counting Money in Pence
Year 2 have started the new term with their brand-new maths topic: Money! The children worked together to explore the value of different coins and master the art of counting in pence. Through different challenges, Year 2 shared their ideas to add different coins and discovered that there is often more than one way to make an amount. This hands-on approach has not only boosted their counting confidence but also helped us with our multiplication knowledge!
Pre-School-Maths-Take And Give 123
We’ve had some hungry wolves and very helpful mathematicians in class this week! To help Little Red Riding Hood get to Grandma’s house, the children have been practicing adding and taking away 1, 2, or 3 items from her basket. They did a brilliant job counting as they added treats for Grandma and calculating the total when a few items were 'removed' along the way! It was a great way to bring our math's learning to life through our story of the week.
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Nursery - Maths - Making Reindeer Food
Our Maths focus centered on practical counting and following instructions involving quantity through an engaging activity: making personalized 'reindeer food' in the malleable tray. The children used oats as a base and added various other ingredients to create their unique mixtures. The core learning involved number language and one-to-one correspondence as the children focused on scooping specific numbers of ingredients, such as giving the reindeer 'one scoop of snow' or 'two scoops of glitter.' This highly motivating task provided excellent practice in counting and following numerical instructions. They then used spoons to transfer their finished creations into small bags to take home, ready for Christmas Eve. This entire process also provided rich practice in developing fine motor control through scooping and transferring.
Year 4 Maths TTRS
Year 4 have been honing in their times tables and division skills recently on TTRS, due to the competition set by Mrs Thompson for Years 4, 5 and 6, to see who will be crowned times tables champion. Year 4 have been trying their best and some are even practising at home which is fantastic!
Reception- Maths- 2D shapes
In Reception the children have been constructing a christmas tree design using a hands-on opportunity to recognise and name simple 2D shapes. They applied the taught language of the shapes properties to a purposeful task. As the children selected shapes for their tree, they actively used mathematical vocabulary to justify their choices. They intuitively understood that a triangle—which has "three straight sides" and "three corners"—was the most appropriate shape for the main foliage, while a rectangle—having "four straight sides" and "four corners," with two pairs of uneven sides—was correctly chosen for the tree trunk. The children showed their understanding of 2D shapes being flat and defined by the number of sides and corners they possess, turning a fun craft project into a solid mathematics lesson.
Year 2 - Maths - Number Bonds to 20
To keep their core number skills sharp, Year 2's recent maths lesson was packed with fun, hands-on activities. They enjoyed a lively game of bingo and a quick-fire matching game, both designed to consolidate their knowledge of number bonds to 20. It was fantastic to see their instant recall and enthusiasm! We are so proud of the fantastic progress Year 2 has made this term in their maths learning.
Y1 Maths
We've had a brilliant week in Year 1 getting back to basics and cementing the vital number skills we learned throughout the Autumn term! Our focus has been on mastering the link between numerals (the number symbol) and the written number word—all through fun, practical activities!
Reception- Maths- Recognising Different Ways To see 1-5
The Reception children have been actively engaged in a fun, festive activity to deepen their understanding of how to represent the numbers 1 through 5. They were tasked with finding the Christmas objects around the classroom, when a number was shown on the screen they went to find that amount of objects. Once found the children demonstrated the concept of each number in multiple ways, using their fingers or the dice. This hands-on, multi-sensory approach ensures a strong foundation in early number sense, helping them to connect the abstract numeral to concrete quantity and different forms of representation.
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