LifeSavers is open for business!

Remember, we are open from 8.30am on Monday mornings in the music room. Come and open an account! Saving has never been so easy.

Battle shapes

In our quest to conquer coordinates, year 4 have been battling one another on geo boards to sink each others’ shapes! First, we made shapes on our geoboards using elastic bands, and worked out the coordinates of the vertices. Next, we translated our shapes in the quadrant. Ultimately, we tried to guess the coordinates of […]

Data Handling in Year 2

In Science we have been learning about the importance of exercise. In Maths we have been recording our results using tally charts and tables. Next stop- pictograms!

Art inspired by the inspirational Katherine Johnson!

As part of our Space topic and to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday, Year 5 have been learning about the amazing Katherine Johnson. They learnt about her critical contribution to NASA during missions to the moon and Mercury back in the 1950s and 60s. We all decided that she was an absolute inspiration and […]

Giant Clocks in Year 2

To start off our week on time in Year 2 we made giant clocks. We used multilink cubes to count out the minutes in 5s, digit cards for the numbers and had our own hour and minute hands to practise during the lesson.

LifeSavers Savings Club Training

A big thank you to Amy Thompson who came in today to train the year 5 and 6 pupils up as cashiers. We are looking for two adult volunteers to support them on Monday mornings from 8.30am to just past 9am. If you are a keen mathematician who would like to help empower future generations […]

Year 3 take the fear out of fractions

We’ve started working on fractions in Year 3 and are discovering that they are not as scary as we thought! We’ve discussed equal parts and that the denominator tells us how many equal parts something is split into. We know that fractions are related to division and that there are many different ways of dividing […]

LifeSavers Job Applications are in!

A big thank you to those of you in Year 5 and 6 for your applications for the roles of volunteer savings club managers. The interviews will be this week and I wish you all the best of luck. There will also be an opportunity for parents to help with the club on Monday mornings […]

Using scale to make a model of the solar system

As an introduction to our Space topic, we used a scale of 1cm = 10 million km to create approximate models of the solar system in Maths.

A busy Friday morning in Year 5

To complete our week’s learning on money, Year 5 were tasked with working out how much some of their favourite meals and snacks cost. They used the Tesco website to ‘shop’ for the ingredients. Lots of mathematical skills were required including rounding and estimation. After break we made the most of the warmer weather by […]