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: 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.
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!
