This week is financial awareness week. In Year 1 we have been focusing on job and skills. We have thought about which jobs and skills are going to help us to communicate, problem solve, use creative thinking skills and work as a team which also ties in with our skills Read more
As part of Financial Awareness Week, Year 2 have been learning all about the difference between wants and needs! We started our learning by watching a short video that helped us understand why it’s important to think carefully about the things we buy and use. The children quickly discovered that Read more
During maths lessons this week, Year 1 have been working hard to using part whole models to begin adding numbers below 10. We have also wrote number sentences to match. The children have worked so hard to understand this tricky concept!
We had a great afternoon today taking part in a live lesson all about space. We met a real life inventor who had the opportunity to meet Tim Peake. We learnt all about life as an astronaut and what they do up in space. We went onto the international space Read more
During maths lessons this week with have been looking at rounding to the nearest 100 and 1000. We struggled slightly with rounding to the nearest 100 so during Fridays lesson we played lots of games to make sure we were secure before moving on to the next lesson.
Year 1 have been introduced to greater and less than symbols today. We used our essential skill of ‘Teamwork’ to create mathematical sentences using cubes and our crocodile symbols.
Today during our maths, Year 1 have been learning to use the greater than and less than symbols. We enjoyed a practical maths lesson to begin to understand how to use these symbols. We then had a practice of writing the symbols with numbers on our pads! The children did Read more
During our Maths lesson, we took part in a competition to see which group could answer the questions the quickest. We were practicing adding and taking 1000 from a given number. The children had to match the question to the correct answer by run in as fast as they could Read more
In this lesson, children estimated and measured a range of objects, using metres as a unit of measurement. They measured things outside in the playground and around their classrooms. They then went into the hall and measured from one side to the other.
Year 1, have been learning about ‘teen’ numbers. To help us understand, we have been using tens frames to learn about ‘tens’ and ‘ones’. The children worked really hard during their practical lesson and have shown great understanding.