Our Year 5 class had an exciting RAF Road to RIAT day, where the children explored the fascinating world of space and rockets. They took part in engaging activities that helped them learn about how rockets work, the challenges of space travel, and the science behind launching into orbit. The day was filled with curiosity, teamwork, and hands-on learning, inspiring the children to think like scientists and engineers while deepening their understanding of space exploration. As part of the experience, the children also took part in a live lesson where they designed, built, and tested their own rockets, putting their new knowledge into practice in a fun and memorable way.
Maths: Blog items
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 2:53pm
After reading the story "There's an Alien in your Book" the childlren followed instructions to create their own Aliens. They had to select the right amount of buttons, beads, eyes and pipe cleaners and then chose how to arrange then to create their alien.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:18am
In maths we learnt about lines of symmetry, focusing on vertical lines of symmetry. We began by looking at a variety of 2D shapes and discussing what symmetry means and that a shape is symmetrical if it can be folded into two matching halves. We then carried out a practical activity where they cut out different shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. They experimented with folding the shapes to see if they could find a vertical line of symmetry. After folding, the children used pencils and rulers to draw the vertical lines of symmetry clearly on each shape.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:11am
In this maths lesson we were looking at drawing 2-D shapes. Firstly we recapped our learning on vertices and sides and thought about regular and irregular shapes. The children then used the Geoboards to firstly make different shapes and then used dotted paper to draw the shapes.
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 4:23pm
🧮 Hands-On Maths Fun!
Today our children enjoyed a practical maths session all about measures. They had the chance to explore and experiment with a variety of equipment, including:
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📏 Tape measures to check the length of different objects
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🫗 Measuring jugs to estimate and record capacity
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⚖️ Weighing scales to find the mass of everyday items
Through these activities, pupils practised estimating and then measuring accurately. This hands-on experience really helped them make meaningful connections with their classroom maths work, showing how numbers and measurements are part of the world around us.
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 10:39am
This week during maths we have being comparing length using the correct mathematical vocabularly. The children then explored this during continuos provision making different length snakes out of playdough and ordering them from shortest to longest. Th children were encouraged to compare the length using the vocabulary forom our oracy session. The children also counted the correct links onto the snake heads and explained which was the longest and why.
"This snake is longer becuase 5 is more than two" Shiloh
"The green snake is longer than the red snake" Noah
Redwoods - Mastering Multiplication
Date: 27th Nov 2025 @ 5:44am
Our Maths journey over the last two weeks has been to master multiplication and division. Working collabortively we have expllored these two mathematical terms using lots of physical resources. In groups and pairs we have investigated ways to group amounts, share equally and also how to record these clearly. towards the end of our journey we bgan to see the relationship bewteen division and multiplication, making links to our timestables.
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 12:57pm
In this maths lesson, pupils in year 4 were dividing 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 10. To support understanding, some pupils used base 10 equipment to exchange 100s for 10s and 10s for 1s. Using manipulatives in math is highly beneficial because they make abstract concepts more concrete and easier to understand.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:09pm
👨👩👧 Year 6 Together Time
This week, we welcomed our parents and carers into Year 6 for a special Together Time session. It was a fantastic opportunity to share all the hard work we’ve been doing since September.
To make it fun and interactive, we organised a quiz covering everything we’ve learned in class so far. From maths and reading to history and science, the questions gave our families a real taste of the wide range of topics we’ve explored. Everyone joined in with great enthusiasm, and it was brilliant to see parents and carers working alongside us, testing their knowledge and celebrating how much we’ve achieved. The quiz sparked lots of laughter and proud moments, showing just how far we’ve come this term.
Together Time was a wonderful way to connect home and school, and we’re already looking forward to the next chance to share our learning journey.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:06pm
➗ Year 6 Recap: Fractions
This week in Year 6, we have been busy revisiting everything we’ve learned about fractions this half term. From simplifying and comparing to adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, we’ve worked hard to make sure all of our fraction skills are sharp and ready for SATs.
To challenge ourselves, we tackled a mix of reasoning questions and arithmetic problems. The reasoning questions helped us explain our thinking clearly and show how we can apply fraction knowledge in different contexts. The arithmetic practice gave us the chance to build speed and accuracy with calculations.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 4:03pm
In Redwoods we have been focusing on bonfire night and Diwali this week. We have learnt about this wonderful celebration and its importance within the Sikh and Hindu religion. Together we discussed how this compared to festivals and special times we celebrate. Working in pairs we read instructions on how to make a salt dough Diya lamp. Working tohgether we made the salt dough mixtures measuring the correct amount out before making our Diya lamp shape.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 3:58pm
This week our class has been working hard in Maths and we are really proud of the progress we are making. We've been focusing on place value - unerstanding what each digit in a number really means. We have been exploring how numbers are made up of hundreds, tens and ones. Together we have been paritioning numbers in different ways to show their value. Workign with partners and in groups we have also been practcing how to find one more and less as well as ten more and less. To finish our place value week we focused on finding nad estimating where numbers belong on numberlines before comparing the value of numbers.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Spooky
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery got a little bit spooky this week as we celebrated Halloween. The children have been busy making potions, creating a witch using different shapes, making pumpkins out of playdough and practising their cutting skills by giving a witch a hair cut! They have also been exploring light and shadow by using halloween torches in the black out tent and helped some spiders to find all 8 of their missing legs! Its been a very spooky week!
Date: 5th Nov 2025 @ 10:29am
This week, we started our unit on Area. During our first lesson, we used post-it notes to show that using the same number of post-it notes gives us a rectilinear shape with the same area no matter their positioning because we used the same four squares.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 4:00pm
Today, we learnt about fact families. We used counters and split the whole into two parts using part-whole models and bar models. Once we completed the bar model and part-whole models we wrote the addition sentences to complete the fact family. We know that addition is commutative so we can swap the order of the two parts around and it still equals the same whole number. Also, we learnt that the whole can come at the start of a number sentence to complete the fact family.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 11:43am
In today's lesson we looked at subtracting across a ten. We thought first about what we could take away to reach the closest ten and then took away the remaining amount. The children then wrote down the subtractionsentences to explain what they have just done practically.
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 9:14am
In Year Two, we have been adding practically across a ten. The children looked at exchanging ten ones for one ten when adding across a ten. The children looked at the concrete method first which will then support them with the pictorial and abstract steps.
Date: 15th Oct 2025 @ 3:02pm
This week we have been using the language of more and fewer to compare amounts. We have used a range of representations and numbers to compare within 10. Later this week, we will be introduced to the symbols < > and = and begin to use these to compare.
Date: 7th Oct 2025 @ 6:34pm
Over this half term, we have been completing lots of tasks in our provision to practise our reading, writing, maths and oracy skills. We have retold stories, represented numbers, ordered numbers, practised number and letter formation and worked on fine motor skills, We have been working on completing these short tasks with increasing independence, to consolidate prior learning.
Year 4 Multiplication Check - Information for parents (gov.uk)
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 6:11pm
Please find attached the gov.uk information about the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check in June.
Redwoods : Addition and Subtraction
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:25pm
In Maths we have been looking at different strategies for addition and subtraction. We have looked at practical strategies with physical resources, counting forwards and backwards, before we started to look at efficient methods.
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:27pm
We have been Reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. The children are great at joining in with the rythm of the story and are starting to retell the story in the correct order. We went on our own bear hunt around school and found bears in all sorts of unusual places! We used lots of prepostion words to describe where the bears where including on, in and behind! We counted all the bears and found out that we had found 16 bears!
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 7:38am
This week in Year One, we have explored different ways of representing numbers as well as using multi-link cubes to show counting on from any given number within 10. This is helping us develop a more secure knowledge of numbers within 10. We noticed that when counting on, we needed one more cube each time and the towers got one bigger.
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.
