by Tim Harrington | Oct 16, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
Last week, children throughout the school focussed on the strategy ‘working systematically’, to solve problems with unfamiliar contexts. Children are linking their learning dispositions such as resilience and articulate to explain their mathematical...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 9, 2024 | Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
This week children throughout the school developed their strategies to think of rules that always enable them to win the game of Nim-7. Teachers and support staff also enjoyed exploring strategies during maths meeting this week. Other year groups engaged with problem...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 1, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, Newsletter
Children have continued to focus on developing their exploring and noticing skills in maths this week with Problem Solving. It has been wonderful to hear children explain their thinking and justify their reasoning throughout the school. Here are just a few of the...
by Tim Harrington | Sep 23, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders
This week, children throughout the school took part in activities involving number. Here is what children in Tagore Class had to say about it: MD Hamza: ” I used my knowledge of the hundred square and I knew that if the number on the right hand side is 20 then...
by Tim Harrington | Sep 16, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
Last year, we signed up to be a Problem Solving School with Nrich to support our children to think deeply and strategically about maths and problem solving in a fun, engaging and collaborative way. This year we are focusing on set a skills each half term, our focus...
by Tim Harrington | Sep 6, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders
What a fantastic start to the new academic year! Children throughout the school have been working collaboratively to employ a range of strategies to solve maths problems this morning. This is the launch of our weekly problem solving activities in maths – aiming...
