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Category Archives: Maths

Class 2 – Learning in the snow

Friday, 15th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Snow days can be a distraction when learning but in class 2 we have been using it to our advantage. We have been practising our addition and times table in […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Reading, Year 1, Year 2

Y3S Spontaneous Snow Maths

Thursday, 14th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As usual class 4 rose to the challenge and did such a fabulous job at creating their snow creatures and then accurately measuring them! Well done children! What a creative, […]

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Distance Learning, Geography, Maths, Well-being, Year 3

Arrays

Wednesday, 13th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 today in maths have been using arrays to solve multiplication questions. They were challenged to be as creative as possible with the arrays and they certainly succeeded.

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 2

Measuring and Converting in Y4G

Wednesday, 6th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Mrs Graham’s class have made a wonderful start to remote Maths learning today, recapping how to measure in cm and convert to mm. Take a look at their amazing outcomes […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 4

Year 5 festive SUMDOG challenge

Tuesday, 15th Decemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Class 7 have been incredibly resilient this week. As we approach the final stages of learning before our Christmas break, the children have logged onto ‘SUMDOG’ today to complete their […]

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Maths, Our learning, Year 5

Virtual Maths Reasoning Christmas Quiz

Monday, 7th Decemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

To get into the festive spirit, Y3 had a Christmas themed maths quiz during their live session today. The children loved applying their division and multiplication learning! The children fed […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 3

Bus stop division teaching and learning with food – Y3 Distanced learning

Thursday, 3rd Decemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Throughout the week Miss Sare has been holding daily live maths sessions and has been astounded by how quickly and fabulously Y3 have picked up the written method for division. […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 3

Y5/6D Fractions – Maths Live Sessions

Wednesday, 25th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

It is our second and final week remote learning in Class 8 and what a great experience we have had! Although we haven’t been able to see each other in […]

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Money, money, money!

Monday, 23rd Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today class 3 had to select coins and notes to make the correct amount to pay for an item in a shop. They were fully immersed in their activity using […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Year 2

Repeating Patterns

Friday, 20th Novemberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

For our numeracy distance learning task, we have been continuing and creating simple repeating patterns.

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Maths, News and Events

Year 5 Away from the desk maths

Friday, 2nd Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

From using the White Rose schemes of work, here’s another example of where we have revisited previous learning at Roughwood and practised using previous methods to calculate. We definitely had […]

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Maths, Year 5

Science & Maths in Year 6

Thursday, 24th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Science, we’ve been learning about light and the rules of reflection … … which linked perfectly with a challenging reflection problem that came up in this week’s […]

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Maths, News and Events, Science, Year 6

Place value problem solving

Thursday, 24th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 absolutely loved maths learning yesterday. They worked in groups of 3 and they had 7 questions to answer. Children worked on using the greater than, less than and […]

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Maths, Year 2

Class 4 -More Outdoor Maths!

Tuesday, 22nd Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 took their Maths lesson outside once again. We drew a number line on the yard and then ordered a mixture of visual representation, 3/4 digit numbers and numbers […]

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Maths, Year 3

Y3S Partitioning outdoors

Wednesday, 16th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today children from Class 4 took their maths outdoors. They had to find as many different numbers as possible: some visual representations, numerals and words and then partition them! They […]

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Outdoor Maths in Year 6

Monday, 14th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Mrs Graham’s group have enjoyed taking their Maths learning outside today in the sunshine! Take a look at our fantastic place value learning …

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Maths, News and Events, Year 6

Y3S Super Maths

Thursday, 10th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Over the last few days Class 4 have been refreshing their memories on place value. We have been using a variety of concrete and pictorial resources to show the value […]

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Maths, Year 3

Class 2 mathematicians

Friday, 4th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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Maths, Year 1

Y5 problem solving in maths

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We converted 2 metres into centimetres and millimetres, and then investigate how many straws we would need. We then used that to work out how many we’d need for 4m, […]

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Maths, Year 5

Y3D Multiplication Hunt

Tuesday, 3rd Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 5 working collaboratively hunting for matching calculations around the classroom! Keep up the hard work!

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Recalling and reciting times tables in Y3/S

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 began their second strand of multiplication by recalling and reciting different times tables. They used their challenge skills, team work skills and reflection skills to complete different […]

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Maths, Year 3

Y3D Outdoor Maths

Friday, 7th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have ended our subtraction strand of maths with a challenging orienteering course!

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Hunting for Roman Numerals!

Wednesday, 22nd Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Members of Class 6 are now expert translators of Arabic and Roman Numerals and can convert easily between the two! They set out on a quest to count items in […]

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Maths, News and Events

Fun with fractions

Friday, 22nd Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week we have been learning about fractions of shapes and fractions of quantities. We investigated how to find different fractions of different shapes. We were also able to show […]

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Class 4: “The cold never bothered us anyway!”

Tuesday, 19th Novemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 began their division lessons by going outside and using practical objects. This is where we were introduced to remainders! We even used ourselves to understand the inverse of […]

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Maths, Year 3

Negative numbers

Friday, 18th Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In SUMMs, Class 7 have been counting through zero into negative numbers. We then practised by playing “tug of war”.

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Maths, Year 5

Year 3 finding the difference

Friday, 11th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week in Maths, Year 3 have been exploring subtraction and the ways we can use it. In the photos below, children have created their own number lines using string […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Delicious maths

Thursday, 10th Octoberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week in maths class three have been learning about measuring. We have looked at what we use to weigh things. We can use the terminology grams and kilograms. After […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 2

Maths fun in class 4

Wednesday, 9th Octoberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 used counting on to find the difference between 2 numbers. The children used the strategy of a number line to complete a number sentence. Once they had […]

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Maths, Year 3

Times Tables Rock Star

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This week we have had an amazing 74 Families engage with our Tea, Toast and Tables mornings which have seen parents and children playing tables games to raise awareness of […]

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Family Learning, Maths, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Timestable Rockstars Launch Day

Thursday, 3rd Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Children came dressed as rockstars today and were ready to take on rockstar challenges. What a fantastic day of maths challenges. Thank you to all parents, carers and staff at […]

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Another amazing TTT morning

Tuesday, 1st Octoberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Year 3 children and their parents and carers attended this second TTT morning with times tables, tea and toast! What a huge success! Thank you to all for attending.

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Y3S outdoor learning

Friday, 27th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 took their maths learning outdoors. To practice using the column addition the children had to work out the sum of a number sentence. Once they worked it […]

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Brilliant Maths

Monday, 23rd Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in year 3 have been using models and images to support their addition learning. Adding one digit to a three-digit by adjusting. Great learning!

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Away from the desk maths in Y6

Friday, 20th Septemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today we applied our skills in a maths mash of multiplication, addition and subtraction to plan a dream party sticking to a (very generous) budget. Lots of reasoning and teamwork […]

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Away from the desk learning in Y3/S

Monday, 9th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 did a fantastic job of beginning to learn how to partition numbers with up to 4 digits! The children had to work in their partners to find […]

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Maths, Year 3

Place Value in Year 5

Friday, 6th Septemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

We have started the Autumn term by looking at place value. Today we have completed some practical collaborative activities to consolidate our learning this week.

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Maths, Year 5

Class 5 diversity potion!

Tuesday, 11th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As part of maths capacity and volume learning, class 5 decided to make a diversity potion. The children were given a recipe of different amounts. Things on the recipe included, […]

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Maths, Year 3

Class 5’s Measurement fun

Wednesday, 5th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

This week, class 5 began their learning about measurements through an outdoor challenge. They worked in pairs to find their colour coded activity and use their rulers to solve mysteries. […]

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Maths, Year 3

Mental maths in Class 6

Wednesday, 22nd Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We are developing our mental strategies in Class 6, thinking about how we can add and subtract efficiently. We have thought about number bonds and similarities when we add multiples […]

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Maths, Year 3, Year 4

Class 5 – Outdoor Maths

Wednesday, 1st Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As part of our Maths this week, Class 5 completed an outdoor Maths activity to consolidate our knowledge of place value. Around the environment were a series of coloured shapes. […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Problem Solving in Y6

Tuesday, 9th Aprilby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Y6 have been creating models to support our learning on volume and surface area to help us to visualise in problem solving. It took a lot of resilience to keep […]

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Times Tables Balloons

Friday, 5th Aprilby Miss Sare Leave a comment

As part of our Maths learning this week, we have used times table balloons to help us practice our quick fire times tables in a fun and creative way.   We […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

3-D Shape Hunt

Friday, 29th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

To consolidate our learning of 3D shapes, Class 5 decided to take a trip to our outdoor environment to look for real life objects made up of 3D Shapes. We […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Top Trumps

Tuesday, 26th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today, Class 5 created their very own 3-D top trump cards They used 3D shapes to find out their properties so that they could correctly design their own cards ready […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

Direction

Wednesday, 13th Marchby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Today in Class 2 we have focused on direction and movement. What is direction? When do we need to give someone directions? What would we need to say to someone to […]

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Literacy, Maths, News and Events, Year 1

Getting to grips with improper fractions in Y6

Wednesday, 6th Marchby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Children in Year 6 have been learning about Fractions. As part of our learning we are finding equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting with different denominators and multiplying.

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Maths, News and Events, Year 6

Pancake day in class 6

Monday, 4th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of our fraction work the children in class 6 have enjoyed pancake day a day early. We have used our knowledge of fractions of amounts to create our […]

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Maths, News and Events, RE

Year 5 finding and representing equivalent fractions outdoors!

Thursday, 28th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Can you represent 6/8 in the outdoor environment?

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Fantastic Fractions!

Wednesday, 27th Februaryby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

This week in Class 2 we have been learning all about Fractions. On Monday we found half of shapes and created a picture: On Tuesday we cut fruit into quarters […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 1

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Tuesday, 5th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children have been working in groups to calculate the percentage of a shape in different colours. We have also converted these percentages to decimals and fractions. Great work Y6.

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Maths, Year 6

Symmetrical patterns in Y4

Thursday, 17th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have been looking at intricate patterns in nature and are now designing a new butterfly 🦋 linking to our book about survival in the rainforest.

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Fractions outdoors

Tuesday, 8th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

It might have been a little bit cold and windy yesterday, but we didn’t let that stop our learning. We showed that we could remember how to write different fractions. […]

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Some of our timetable rock stars winnners this term

Thursday, 20th Decemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

These children have increased their speed and improved their timetable scores. The top three winners from each class will be announced in January. Well done to all children. We are […]

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Y3 Maths Fun

Thursday, 22nd Novemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today we took our Maths learning outside! We used ourselves as a way of learning division with remainders and quickly realised that it wasn’t always possible to divide a number […]

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Maths, News and Events, Year 3

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