Maths: Blog items
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
This week we have been further developing our ability to regulate our emotions, develop our resilience when dealing with problems and challenges. We worked collaboratiovely to create towers as tall as possible.
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:49pm
We are reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and have had lots of fun bear activites in our provision. The children really engaged with our bear sensory tray amd created some great bear bottles by filling them with coco pops. This was great for their fine motor development as they scooped up coco pops are carefully poured them in to the different size bottles. As the childen filled the bottles we counted how many scoops and used mathmatical langauge including full, empty, bigger and smaller.
Date: 15th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
This week our story is 'The Gruffalo.' Today we have read and discussed the story, the characters and the setting, before completing Gruffalo related tasks in our provision. We have been writing captions, ordering numbers 1-10, retelling the story at our story telling table and matching number to quantity.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:26pm
In Year Two, we have begun our Mastering Number. We have been focusing on the composition of number and which two numbers make the whole. We used the stem sentence ‘ ____ and ____ makes _____’.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 12:55pm
This half term, our focus in Computing is on grouping data which links nicely to the Maths curriculum of sorting objects. In our first two lessons, we learnt to understand that objects have lables and experimented sorting a variety of different objects into groups seeing where they best fit. We have grouped items by: the object they are, their colour, shapes and sizes.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 7:54pm
Since returning to school our focus in Maths has been place value. This week, we used place value counters and base 10 to show how well we understand numbers.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 2:14pm
There's nothing we like more in nursery than a nice bit of water play! It's a fantastic way for the chiildren to explore capacity, develop their fine motor skills through pouring and emptying and build relationships through sharing and talkikng through ideas. If only we could find a way to stop them getting soaking wet!
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 1:37pm
Nursery have throughly enjoyed using our mud kitchen. The children have been learning to share the resources and work together to make some delicious muddy meals. As they were cooking, the children counted how many children there are so they could make enough meals. They used scissors to cut leaves to add to the food and had some good chats about what they needed to do. "You need to put it in the oven now". "It's ready. Quick get a plate".
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.
