2A Maths Outdoor Learning

We've been learning Addition and Subtraction in Maths. We decided to get some fresh air and practise our adding and subtracting by playing a game of Snakes and Ladders on our huge, newly painted one hundred square! We had lots of fun! 😀 Thank you Mr Kelly for raising the money for the new playground markings.

Year1 Maths investigating fun!

In Year 1 we have been learning about grouping, adding and multiplication of numbers.

Today we used our knowledge of these skills to problem solve and carry out an investigation.

Can you find the answer systematically?

Year 6C we have been dancing to Maths songs this week. Lots of fun and learning at the same time in Sports Relief Week.

SATs week in Year 6

We are so proud of our year 6's sitting their SATs last week.

They showed so much resilience and patience and all tried their best.

Well done, Year 6. Here is a poster by one of them.

Times Table Resources in Y4H!

Y4H have been busy bees creating times table resources for homework. Their mission was to create a revision guide, poster, or game to help them and their friends learn their times tables. We had a variety of resources to share with the class today and the games they had created looked great fun! Well done to those who did your homework! :) We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures!

Year 5 Square Numbers

Year 5 have been investigating square numbers. We made a resource to share with other children. We now know a square number is the number you get when you multiply an integer by itself. It is called a square number because they can be made into a square shape.

Sieve of Eratosthenes

Year 5 have been investigating properties of numbers. Today, children had to follow instructions using their knowledge of multiples to predict, identify patterns and explain their reasoning. 

After completing the investigation Kaitlyn and  Evelyn realised the numbers were Prime numbers. 

" We found out the numbers left in the grid are Prime numbers. Prime numbers have to be greater than one and can only be divided by itself and one" e.g 2, 3, 5, 7 

Bailey and Bethany recognised the prime numbers. They drew factor bugs to demonstrate the prime numbers. 

Miss Cooley decided to be a pupil in the class. We had to explain our reasoning to her. 

Florence Nightingale's Timeline

Our topic this term is 'Nuturing Nurses.' One of the nurses we are learning about is Florence Nightingale. We found about the main events of her life and then made a timeline of these. We made the timelines to scale, using our skills that we have leanrt in our number work. As Florence trained to be a nurse for 16 years, that section of the timeline was measured to be 16cm long. It was great fun!

Maths in Y4H

This week in Y4H we have been looking at Chinese menus and the mathematical features we can see on them. We came up with: money, decimals, numbers (in order) increasing in one each time, shape, and time. We then used the menus to order meals for a given amount of people with a certain budget. We had great fun, take at look at us working on it!

Year 4K Statistics

Year 4 have written their own surveys to discover trends in our classes. For example, some children have chosen to investigate how active our year group is or how we use our local facilities. We are presenting the data collected in bar charts. Each bar chart seems to be better than the last one! Our final step is to analyse our data. What will we discover?  

Year 2's pet shop!

This week in maths we have been learning all about money. Today in our numeracy lesson we were talking about what you need to do when you go shopping, and we pretended that we were going to a shop. 2D talked about what a shop looks like and what kind of things you need in a shop, and decided that we would have a go at building a shop in Plan, Do, Review!

When we were getting ready for PDR, we talked about what kind of a shop we would need and what we would use. We had loads of cardboard left over from our castle, so we used that to build a pet shop! We had lions, monkeys, cats and even a t-rex!

Our challenge was to figure out how to use what we had to build a realistic looking shop with shelves, signs and a till. The children came up with all of these ideas on their own, including a charity pot on the tills, signs to warn people of the dangerous animals, scratch marks in the lion and t-rex cage, pretend (but life-sized and realistic) money in a till draw and an open/closed sign for our door. They worked super hard and the finished product was amazing!

Tessellation Painting in Year 6

In Year 6 we were making some tessellating patterns.

A tessellating pattern in shapes made into a pattern but no gaps, like bricks.
We did this in the style of Islamic Art.  We used a range of colours and we used compasses to make circles.

After we did a few circles, we could see a flower shape where some of them were overlapping, there was also a diamond and inside the diamond there was a shape like an eye.

We used the six points of the flower to make a hexagon, and with that we divided it into lots of triangles and different shapes.

By the children in Year 6

Maths and Art Y4K

Year 4 looked at Maurits Cornelis Escher's tessellating prints during Maths and Art Day. We spent the morning investigating which shapes tessellate. We discovered that all triangles and all quadrilaterals can tessellate! We were inspired by Escher's use of symmetry and shape, creating our own paintings using a tessellating template. Well done Year 4 for producing some fantastic maths and art!

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Maths and Art day!

We enjoyed our maths and art day arranging the different shapes we found! We can even name most of our shapes too!

Art and Maths Day!

On Thursday, we had a very exciting day! We got told that it was Maths and Art day. We had to look at a painting by Kandinsky that had lots of different polygons and shapes within it. We talked about the painting and how interesting it was, some of us saw a sun and a moon in the picture. Miss Smith had found what she thought was a boat so we all got to look for it! Then we went to the ICT suite to make our own pictures inspired by what we had seen in Kandinsky's painting. Later we got to draw them on paper and use watercolours to paint them. We had a lovely afternoon painting and we all thought it was great fun! Well done Y3S, you are all super talented artists!

Maths and Art Day in Y4H

We really enjoyed our maths and art day in year 4. As a class, we discussed the work of Escher, who was an artist and mathematician. In his work we recognised that he used shapes that fitted together to make a pattern, these shapes were identical, but were sometimes rotated. He would then make these shapes look like animals. This type of art is called tessellation. From this, we decided to investigate whether other polygons tessellate. We proved that all triangles and quadrilaterals can tessellate, which means they fit together without any gaps and they do not overlap. Next, we set out to make our own tessellating shape template and used it to create our own tessellating art in the style of Escher. Here are some pictures of us working hard on our investigations and our artistic creations.

Year enjoy Art and Maths Day

For this special day, we looked at the artist Auguste Herbin. His art work features colourful 2D shapes. We looked at his pictures and labelled the 2D shapes we could see. We then planned our own pictures in the Style of Herbin and labelled the 2D shapes we wanted to use. Our challenge was to use the faces of 3D shapes to draw our 2D shapes. Can you see the shapes in our final paintings?

Art and Maths day in RG

We have been learning about 2D shapes and different art techniques all week in preparation for art and maths day yesterday. We had a brilliant time going around the school on a shape hunt and making shape collages. We also used sand, glitter, chalk and lots of other sensory trays to practise drawing shapes while talking about them and using maths language to describe them. We also looked at Josef Albers and his work 'Homage to the Square'. This inspired us to make our own brilliant art work thinking about shapes, colours and sizes. What brilliant Artists and Mathematicians we are! 

Multipication madness

Year 5 have been busy practising their times tables.

Y4K Properties of 2D Polygons

Year 4 are learning about the properties of 2D polygons. We have used geoboards on the iPads to make different polygons and talk about the different families that they belong to. We then used isometric paper to accurately draw a range of polygons, listing their properties using bullet points. 

When you see us, please ask us all about the properties of 2D polygons! We can use words like regular, irregular, sides, vertices and angles to tell you all about different polygons.