We are so impressed, so many of you went on TTRS yesterday and have improved your scores in less than 24 hours. Imagine what you could do if you spent 20 minutes a day practising…
Log in, find the battle or go into garage and get practising. Golden tickets again tomorrow for those of you who practised today (outside of school hours!)
Or, if you fancy a change, spend 10 minutes on TTRS and then go onto Hit The Button to practise without the answers!
THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE!
I have set you all a challenge, we have a TTRS battle!!! Air, Earth or Water, who will be victorious? Get on TTRS as much as you can and practise, practise, practise.
Year 4 – you have taken a letter home today that outlines the information about the Year 4 Times Table assessment in June. You will have 6 seconds to correctly answer each times table question, so we need to be super speedy!
Keep practising (we know learning times tables can be a bit boring but we promise you it is worth it!)
LO: To understand a metre is a measure of length
Today we looked at measuring, we discussed what a metre was and how this compares to a centimetre. Our homework is to find out how many cm are in one metre and tell Miss Morrison tomorrow! We compared objects and estimated which was longer or shorter. We then worked in a group of 3 to estimate (a clever guess) and then measure objects in the classroom. We estimated longer, shorter or equal to 1m.
Reception pupils will be working on addition and subtraction this week, using and understanding the language of minus, subtract, plus, equals to and altogether. We will be looking at the nursery rhyme ‘Down at the station’ along with using the big Picture image to act out riding on a train, where people get on and off at each stop, therefore the total number of people on the train will be changing.
Year One pupils will be continuing to work on their 2 digit and place value skills. We will be using a range of resources and comparing numbers. We will also be making sure to use our star maths words when explaining our findings (compare, identity, equals to, greater, less, digit and value). Take a look at the images below? Can you explain to your grown ups, how do you know the answer? Can you prove it? Can you think of your questions to ask them?
Don’t forget to send in any photos via Tapestry of any additional work you do, we would love to see you continue your learning outside of school.
This week the badgers, learning group have been exploring, identifying and investigating 2D and 3D shapes. We have been looking at shape features in order to identify them. We have been sorting them by colour, size, if they are curved or straight, 3 or 4 sided as well as sorting into 2D and 3D groups.
We explored and created our own repeating 2 and 3 step shape patterns. At first, we found this tricky but after moving our learning outside and moving shapes as well our bodies we were able to start creating and following some very challenging patterns.
A ‘This goes, triangle, circle, square, triangle, circle, square.’
J ‘It does the same, triangle, triangle, circle, circle, triangle, triangle.’
We continued our detective work by walking around school and trying to find as many different 2D and 3D shapes as possible. We took photos of the ones we found as well as drawing them onto clipboards.
‘This fire thing is a cylinder shape’ R
J ‘Mr Flowers Door is a rectangle, the plug is a 2D square, the radiator is a like a rectangle but its 3D. I think it is a cuboid’.
‘Wow! The bin in the playground is a cylinder, it is 3D!’
As you can see some some ,the brilliant badgers have really worked hard to deepen their maths knowledge.
Can you find more shapes in and around your homes? What shapes can you find? Are they 3D or 2D? How many faces or sides do they have? Don’t forget to take a photo and upload onto Tapestry. Happy shape hunting!
As part of our Man and Machine topic this term, we have begun exploring computer concepts: starting with the all important algorithm.
Well the year sixes set about finding out what they are. Firstly considering what they thought it was and finding out that it was not exactly the same as coding. Instructions was the name of the game and they were also fascinated to find out that algorithms were first created in the 9th century: a long time before computers.
We clarified our understanding of the concept – watching the video below and making some whiteboard notes, before writing our own algorithms, to achieve a set task: moving from one place to another. First we explored this in class (negotiating the tables and chairs) and then the pupils competed in groups to avoid obstacles on a course in the playground – blindfolded (using their teammates algorithm to succeed). The pupils learnt that sometimes they needed a back-up instruction (or ‘IF’ instruction), or a variation in the steps to allow for differences in the environments where it was used, ensuring that an ‘error’ did not occur.
Finally, we discussed how algorithms were all around us in technology that they use and that there were many careers that they could explore using these skills.
SATS exams are approaching fast – You still have time to practice.
Below, in the attached file, you will find 16 sets of short questions, for your to practice – The answers are also at the end of the pack, for your to check your answers against.
You will also find attached a copy of the letter sent home last week, that contains more information about SATS and the SATS breakfast club – please return your slips if you wish to attend. The letter additionally outlines the schedule of exams. In addition, you can watch a video at the link below, that explains more about the exams.
For general information about the SATS tests, this year – click here, for a useful guide. You may also like to download other past SATS papers – click here.
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
sflower@st-pauls.gloucs.sch.uk
A new battle has begun – Who will win this week? Get playing now!
If you have lost your username and password, then contact Mrs. Peyyeti (ppeyyeti@st-pauls.gloucs.sch.uk), or your class teacher.
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
maths@stpauls 