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Today Upper School investigated where in the Bible you can find the story of the birth of Jesus. They looked at all four Gospels and discovered it’s only written about in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke! Next we read the different versions and made notes about each story. One half of the class read…

WOW! What a fun morning outside in the fresh Autumn air! 
 

After being placed into their little mixed teams, everyone scoured the bushes, the trees, the fences, the football nets for the puzzles. After solving the puzzle or problem, the children needed to use their code breaker to turn…

The children really enjoyed their 'find it Friday' treasure hunt to finish off maths week. Children teamed up across all year groups to solve a series of hidden maths problems, questions and puzzles. We all had great fun!

This morning, Upper School were provided with a challenge to find the longest possible sequence of factors and multiples until they could find no more. First of all, they asked many mathematical questions to clarify the rules and to gather the right information. They chose various ways of keeping…

Upper School were thrilled to host a Maths afternoon, filled with fabulously fun stalls for all the children from Middle and Lower School to join in with! They designed, organised and managed their own stalls; it was an absolute delight to see them encourage the little ones to attempt their…

This morning, Upper School were presented with a factors and multiples challenge which, whilst testing their ability to apply their mathematical knowledge, required a range of thinking skills...particularly, a positive ‘Growth Mindset’ about it being possible and remembering not to give…

Reagan has been busy baking maths themed biscuits in the shape of dominoes at home, they looked fabulous Reagan!

Thank you so much to Upper School for inviting us to play all the different games and take part in challenges on your maths stalls this afternoon. We had so much fun.

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Think it Thursday saw the children taking on some challenging maths puzzles in the morning - including working out how many presents were delivered in total in the 12 days of Christmas song (spoiler- there were 364!) 
In the afternoon we were treated to a maths activities fayre by upper school.…

For wear it Wednesday in our maths week, the children came dressed in maths inspired outfits. Here are middle school enjoying sharing their costumes with the rest of the school.

Our second day of maths week brought us 'teamwork Tuesday' where the children discussed the importance of working as a team to achieve their tasks. 
We begun with some team games, including 'flip the rug' where all of the children had to flip a blanket over whilst still being stood on top of it. 
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This morning Upper School children came dressed up for ‘wear it Wednesday’. We had a ‘coder’, farmers, blackboard, footballers, chef, Miss Langley, dice and maths jokes as well as school children who love to learn maths.

We have had a challenge morning with a ‘paper bridge structure’ with just…

We have had a very busy maths day! Take a look at these photos to see the activities and fun we’ve had doing a ‘maths March’ together.