Maths Week 2025- Challenge 1

2nd February 2025Chris Mumby

Maths Week 2025 is here, and we’re kicking things off with an exciting home learning challenge! This is your chance to get creative, have fun with numbers, and showcase your mathematical thinking.

For our first home learning challenge, we’d like you to choose a number and create a poster displaying different ways to represent it. You can show your number using:

  • Numerals (e.g. 7)
  • Words (e.g. seven)
  • Pictures (e.g. seven stars)
  • Number sentences (e.g. 3 + 4 = 7)
  • Arrays
  • Tally marks
  • Money
  • Anything else creative!

How to Take Part

  1. Choose a number that inspires you.
  2. Design and decorate your poster using any materials you like – be as colourful and imaginative as possible!
  3. Make sure your poster clearly shows your chosen number in a variety of ways.
  4. Submit your entry to Mr Mumby by Friday to take part in the challenge.

We can’t wait to see your fantastic ‘Ways to Show a Number’ posters! Get your thinking caps on, grab your pencils, and start creating.

Happy Maths Week!

Year 6 spellings

28th January 2025Jillian Jackson

Today we looked at the spelling of the following Y5/6 statutory words. All these words link to our expedition writing so the children will be practicing them over the next two weeks, to ensure when they use them in their written work they are spelt correctly.

government     individual                              

determined       prejudice 

community        opportunity

recognise          neighbour

Year 6 spellings

20th January 2025Jillian Jackson

This week we will be looking at words that end with the suffixes -tial and -cial. Watch the video below to remind yourself of the spelling rule. Here are our list of focus words.

essential    potential   confidential   torrential   initial

special     artificial     crucial     racial      beneficial

Extended Study – New Year Pledges!

8th January 2025Sophie Myers

What are your New Year pledges? Is there anything you want to work on this year?

To welcome in the New Year, our next Extended Study challenge is to create New Years pledges, posters or kindness stones that we can display around school.

Next week, Crew Councillors will be completing these and presenting in Crew time as examples for you to use.

Keep an eye out for the blog for examples! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!