Year 5 took their Maths outside today to work on comparing and ordering decimal numbers. The children had great fun racing against each other! We took the Maths back into the classroom where they ordered and compared their running times as decimal numbers.
Mathematics
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Mathematics at Holy Trinity Halstead.
Elephant Class have been enjoying learning about measurement this week and how to use a ruler and metre stick to measure in centimetres. We have been taking lots of opportunities to practise. Here they are measuring items on our playground.
Here are a selection of photographs taken in Hornet Class during the past week in maths, on our river walk, and on World Book Day. The smaller group shots from World Book Day were all requested by the children themselves.
Y4 have kicked off their art lessons by learning about different artists. We looked at Matisse, David Hockney, Rousseau and Dali. We are going to use Dali and surrealism as a focus since our theme is ‘Dreams’. We have also been learning about fractions in our maths lessons, using the […]
On Friday, we completed our STEM Week with an exciting visit from Subject Revolution. KS1 and EYFS travelled around an amazing new world working together in practical maths challenges to help Prince Lunimo tidy up for the Queen. The children worked to pass through each maths challenge zone, undetected by the invading […]
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
Jeudi dernier, l’année 5 a pris un petit-déjeuner français et a fait semblant de gérer nos propres restaurants. Les enfants ont dû utiliser un menu français pour rédiger les reçus et calculer le total de la facture, etc.
Year 4 have been outside today creating their own angles using sticks and chalking on the playground whilst identifying obtuse, acute and right-angles.
Year 4 have been learning to tell the time to specific minutes, converting 12hr to 24hr time and solving time related problems. Many have realised how important it is to be able to tell the time – especially, analogue!
As part of our topic on the the circulatory system Kestrel Class made blood to help us remember the components that make up our blood, and the functions of each of them. We calculated the percentage blood parts we would need to represent: 55% Plasma , 44% red blood cells […]
Today Year 4 have been adding fractions using Numicon. They have also been learning how to convert a mixed number to an improper fraction.
Sumdog is a fun & fantastic mental maths platform featuring adaptive learning. It adapts to each pupil individually and delivers curriculum-aligned questions targeted to each pupil’s level. This means that it’s great for children across the school!* Today we are launching a 10-A-Day March Sumdog Challenge! Everyone getting 310 (10-a-day) answers correct […]
Last week Panther Class took part in a simulation game, pretending to be Viking traders trying to ensure the prosperity of their trading centre. They learned about what, how, and where the Vikings traded and, after preparing their goods and creating a ‘shopping list’, they travelled across Europe buying and […]
Year 5 have been exploring division using Numicon! They worked in groups so they could explain their thinking to each other.
Kestrels have been really busy preparing and creating their stalls ready for the PTFA Christmas Bazaar on Friday 7th December!
During a varied day, Panther Class have been busy making their Anglo Saxon brooches out of clay and getting to grips with long multiplication!
The children in Giraffe Class have had a wonderful day of learning. Pirates arrived in our classroom this morning and asked the children to read messages in a bottles. The children then engaged in a range of pirate activities, including writing maps, writing messages in a bottle, pirate role play […]
