Reception measure up

We have been building rockets and growing lentil and pea sprouts so that we could measure how tall they became. It turns out we can measure humans too!

Decimal Creatures

For their investigation this week, Year 5 were given this challenge: The children tackled the problem with great enthusiasm and were incredibly creative too! Check out some of their creations and calculations below:

Drawing in Year 2

Year 2 have been inspired by the artist Richard Deacon this week. They have had fun linking their Maths objective to their Art lesson by using shapes to create their masterpieces with the wonderful Miss Stringer.

Coordinate Battleships

Using their knowledge of coordinates in 4 quadrants, Year 5 tried to sink each other’s battleships in Maths this morning.

All aboard the shape train!

Do you know the difference between a trapezium, parallelogram and a rhombus? We’ve been using all sorts of activities to get to know quadrilaterals this week in year 4.

Investigating the Properties of Shape in Year 2

This week Year 2 have been learning all about the properties of shape- number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry. They were challenged to make and name shapes when given their properties, played games describing shape patterns to their partner who had to draw them and learnt how to find lines of symmetry.

Systematic!

This was a fairly typical response to the maths investigation set to Y4 today. Taking a systematic approach makes a seemingly complex task fairly simple!

Working systematically in Year 3 Maths

I know I have the best job in the world and lessons like this prove it. 😃 Last Thursday we were looking at working systematically and using dominoes in investigations. First things first – how did we know we had a full set? I asked how we could check and Year 3 came up with […]

New staff required for Margos over the Christmas period.

Like another famous online/catalogue retailer, Reception is struggling to cope with the Christmas present demands at their flagship Margos store! Please be patient with your orders 👍🤶🏻

New beauty salon opens in Lee

Thanks to a small business loan from the bank of Reception we are pleased to announce that Salon Damaris is now open for business.