Maths: Blog items
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 5:05pm
This week, both year 1 classes have began our Mastering Number sessions. We have started by looking at composition of numbers, making our own collection of objects and identifying the '1 and another 1' within them. We have practised using our stem sentences to support our learning.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:09pm
We started off the school year by getting practical! We're always exploring fun and hands-on ways to make maths meaningful for our learners! We’ve been focusing on partitioning numbers to 100 — and we've had a great time using manipulatives like tens and ones counters, along with the part-whole model, to help us build our understanding.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 8:19pm
This half term, Year 1 will be exploring place value to 10. During this unit, we will deepen our understanding of numbers to 10, building on our pre-existing knowledge learnt in Reception. This week, through provision and teacher led tasks, we have complete a range of tasks looking at representing numbers in different ways, ordering numbers to 10 as well as counting a range of objects up to 10. We look forward to continuing our learning in the coming weeks!
Year 1 Telling the Time to the Hour
Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 10:07am
This week we have began to learn how to the tell the time to the hour. We learnt the difference between the hour hand and the minute hand and spent lots of time practising making o'clock times on our individual clocks.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 4:41pm
This week we have revisted comparing numbers, now exploring numbers within 100! We recapped on the comparison symbols < > and = and what these mean, before using base 10 to make and compare numbers. We explored comparing numbers with the same tens, before moving onto comparing any two numbers.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:58pm
This half term, our computing focus is data and information. Today, we explored ways to collect information and presenting data. We created a human pictogram to show our favourite fruits before completing a mini beast hunt to collect data about things found. Once we created a tally chart to represent our data we created a pictogram online.
Year 2- Gets taken over by Year 5
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:06pm
Yesterday, year two were taken over by year five. Miss Hester-Hopwood and Mr Cooke were in our class teaching us all about homophones and number bonds. We did a matching activity to match the correct spelling to the picture before doing Maths recapping our number bonds to 20. We loved the Year 5 children teaching us!
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 12:30pm
Today our Year 1 classes were taken over by Year 5 teachers! We enjoyed meeting our new teachers and TAs first thing this morning, before listening to our new head teacher during assembly time. We then spent the morning exploring Beebots, what their buttons do and how to make them perform commands we want to give them.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 5:09pm
This week we have continued learning about numbers within 100 and today we practised describing these numbers in terms on tens and ones. We continued to use Base 10 to make each number and support counting in tens.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We have been reading the story "Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell". In the story, Norman meets lots of snails and thinks their shells are amazing! We looked closey at the spiral patterns on shells and then recreated it through drawing and baking! We made some deliciious jam spirals and drew super spirals.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:07pm
This week we have been exploring shapes. We have learnt the names of four 2D shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and circle. We have also explored how many sides and corners these shapes have and then used the shapes to create pictures.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:45pm
This week, we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We have identified and matched shapes, sorted shapes into categories and created 2D and 3D shape patterns.
Reception The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:11pm
The children ihn Reception have been busy completing lots of work based around the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' We have been orally retelling and sequencing the story using a range of scienfic vocabularly, learning about the butterfly lifecycle, writing sentences, painting and collaging caterpillars and butterflies aswell as lots of maths themed activities. We have been completing butterfly doubles aswell as adding and subtracting single digit numbers. Have a look at all our learning!
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 2:00pm
In this maths lesson, pupils had to use a variety of strategies to solve a tricky fraction puzzle. They found the best way was to use a 'bar model' to organise their work and use their knowledge of times tables and fractions to calculate at each step. The pupils worked in pairs and they showed amazing resilience and perseverance to find the solution.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:27pm
Today we explored doubles using practical resources. We recapped on what doubling means and how to work out the answers using base 10 and counters. We also practised writing number sentences to show each double.
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 2:28pm
Today we began to learn about repeated addition to help us record how to add equal groups. We worked practically and from pictorial representations to identify the number of groups and how many items in each group.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:38am
This week, Year Two have been learning how to measure lengths and heights. Yesterday, we looked at why we wouldn't measure everything in centimetres because it would take too long and be hard work to do it so we can measure things in metres. We used metre rulers to measure a variety of different things around our classroom and rounded it to the nearest whole metre.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 9:33pm
This week, we used our amazing oracy skills in our Maths lessons.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week we have read our new story, 'Zog.' We have read and discussed the story, created story maps, labelled the characters, written sentences to describe key events and completed lots of related tasks in our provision.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week we have began to explore counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have looked at the patterns made on hundred squares to support our understanding, listened to lots of counting songs and completed different activities to develop our ability to count in 2s, 5s and 10s!
Date: 28th Apr 2025 @ 7:09pm
This week, we have revisited partitioning numbers in our maths lessons. We have completed lots of practical work to partition numbers into tens and ones, orally stating stem sentences to support our understanding.
Year 4 - No Pen Morning - Maths
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:09pm
Yer 4, used cuisenaire rods for a no-pen morning in maths. It was a a great way to encourage hands-on, visual learning. Pupils explored fractions. They were given different tasks such as identifying fractions and finding what parts make up wholes.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:25pm
We had a visit from the Easter Bunny who hid some chocolate eggs in our garden! The children worked together to find the bunnies and carrots that led us to the eggs. We had to find 24 eggs, so it was a big job but we managed it! We counted together to check we had 24 eggs and we were so happly that we had found them all! Then we went in small groups to race our Easter eggs down a hill!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:14am
This week, Year 2 participated in no pen morning. In reading into writing, we continued looking at non-chronological reports by sorting facts into the correct subheading which will help us when writing our own this week. In maths, we exploring recognising a quarter, we sorted shapes and amounts into whether they were quarters or not.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 8:13pm
Today, we celebrated our No Pen Morning by having a fantastic oracy lesson! We focused on the importance of listening and joining in when we're having discussions. We even recapped our amazing strategies like agreeing, building on someone else’s ideas, and challenging answers respectfully. We also shared the different roles we can take, like being the instigator who starts the conversation, the prober who asks questions, and the summariser who wraps it all up nicely. One of our fun activities was figuring out which objects were the odd one out and spotting similarities and differences—lots of great discussions were had! In Maths, we learned about volume and capacity. We measured different containers to see how much they could hold, ordering them from least to most. We discovered that some looked different but held the same amount of water, so we poured from one to the other! We even tackled some tricky capacity statements, working out intervals and volumes of jugs. What a brilliant day!
