A huge well done to all the children in Ash as you’ve all made such a fantastic start to the new school year. We’ve had a busy week doing lots of Maths games, drawing our favourite teddy, we’ve spent time in Kayden’s garden, sang songs in RE, wrote new prayers Read more…
This week in Science, we have been learning all about mixtures. We investigated what would happen when we mixed a substance with water. The substances we mixed with water were; washing up liquid, hand soap and bubble bath. We used our fingers as bubble wands to see which mixture would Read more…
For Maths this week we went into the hall to complete lots of Maths activities. We had lots of fun solving the problems, working with our partners. Thank you Year 4 and Mrs Grindrod for making Maths so exciting.
Everyone had a great time today taking part in the Maths Roadshow! Each year group came to the hall to carry out some maths investigations. Every class worked really hard to solve as many puzzles as they could, showing great growth mindsets and persevering when they came across a challenging Read more…
We had a great time using our mathematical skills to complete the maths challenges at the maths carousel today. We worked in pairs to solve the maths problems and move around the hall to try and complete as many as we could. We had lots of fun, thank you to Read more…
In year one, we we have started learning about Division. We used key words such as share, equal, group, different and altogether to describe and explain how we were grouping objects. We investigated how many ways they could share a number of objects in to different equal groups. It Read more…
This week, Year 5 have been revisiting and revising their knowledge of factions, decimals and percentages. To do this, they have taken part in a variety of fun tasks and challenges including code breakers, board games, reasoning loop questions and making/ using fortune tellers. We had lots of fun with Read more…
Both Year 6 classes took part in maths treasure hunts this afternoon. They had to apply their knowledge of finding percentages of amounts and equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. The children worked in groups to solve a variety of problems in the quickest time possible, moving between problems as they Read more…
For forest school we worked in groups to collect sticks then had to make 2D shapes. We had to follow the clues and work as a team to complete the different challenges like: *How many squares can you make with 12 sticks. *How many triangles can you make with 12 Read more…
This week Maple have been learning about fractions. We began by using fraction walls and our times tables to recognise equivalent fractions. We then used this knowledge to help to simplify fractions. Today we have been converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. We have used lots of Read more…