by m.ahmed | May 22, 2026 | Art, English, Expressive Art and Design, Goldsworthy Class 2025/26, Learning Dispositions, Learning Theme, Maths, P4C, Problem Solving, Problem Solving
🧩 Problem Solving Fridays This term, the children have absolutely loved our Problem Solving Fridays. One of our favourite sessions involved exploring paper dominoes. The class experimented with different ways to sort them, created repeating patterns, and even...
by Syeda Ferdush | Mar 1, 2026 | Hepworth 2025/26, Hokusai Class 2025/26, Maths, Problem Solving
What a great way to end the week!On Friday, Year 3 turned into real-life detectives, exploring our school and measuring all kinds of interesting places and objects. Clipboards in hand and rulers at the ready, the children set off on a Measurement Mission to discover...
by Syeda Ferdush | Nov 21, 2025 | Articulate, articulation, Hepworth Class 2025/26, Hokusai Class 2025/26, Learning Dispositions, Problem Solving
This Friday, our Year 3s took on a fantastic strategy challenge: a game called Nim 7.At first glance it looks simple—just a row of counters and the chance to take one or two at a time.But very quickly, the children realised… this game is full of surprises! The room...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 23, 2025 | All Classes, Maths, Problem Solving
Lansbury Lawrence are part of the Nrich Problem-Solving Schools initiative (Problem-Solving Schools | NRICH) which encourages children to apply different strategies to solve unfamiliar problems in maths. This half term, our strategy focus is Exploring and Noticing....
by Syeda Ferdush | Oct 17, 2025 | articulation, Hepworth Class 2025/26, Hokusai Class 2025/26, Learning Dispositions, Problem Solving
In today’s maths lesson, Year 3 worked incredibly hard as we revisited an activity we first tried at the beginning of the year- Strike it Out! This exciting game from nrich.maths.org helps us practise our addition and subtraction skills, while also challenging us to...
by Syeda Ferdush | Oct 10, 2025 | Curious, Hepworth Class 2025/26, Hokusai Class 2025/26, Learning Dispositions, Maths, Problem Solving
This week in maths our Year 3 classes enjoyed investigating number patterns using two yellow dice and one white dice. The children began by rolling the dice, adding the numbers on the two yellow dice, and then subtracting the number shown on the white dice. For...
