Christmas Ornaments Maths Problem

Click on this link for the Christmas Ornaments maths problem.

Maths Transition Activities

Blandford St Mary Primary has been establishing stronger links with the secondary school, The Blandford School.  Together we have developed and carried out shape activities such as the example above where Year 6 children carefully drew shapes using angle measures and compasses.  They gained a deep understanding of the properties of regular polygons and tessellation.
More fun activities are being developed for this year.

Home Learning Survey

Pupils of Blandford St Mary Primary School,

We are looking at how to develop home learning and need to know what you think.  Please click on the link below and complete the survey. Any information that you give will be treated confidentially.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VFWP9V3

Mathematics INSET

Thank you to all the staff at Blandford St Mary for making the February INSET on mathematics a great success.  Teachers and teaching assistants used Haylock and Cockburn's connective model to identify effective teaching of mathematices (see below).  Staff were introduced to new intervention strategies to be used in the classroom (remember there are resources on the intervention documents page) and we also looked at mathematics games (links are on the games page). 

Maths and Enterprise Week

Many cross curricular links were made last week as part of Enterprise Week, especially with mathematics.  For example, Year R, 3 and 5 made some wonderful food, such as chocolate truffles and jam, and used their measuring skills.  Year 4 learnt about fairtrade products and used compass directions to find routes on a world map.  Year 6 used their understanding of nets to make 3D shapes, resulting in some wonderful trinket boxes. 
All of the classes carried out some excellent market research and used their data handling skills.  The activities showed how mathematics is an important part of everyday day and the children enjoyed using and applying their skills and understanding.  The money raised will be donated to Comic Relief.  Well done to everyone!
 Year 4 market research

  Year 6 designing a net

 Year 5 using measuring skills as part of making jam

Dancing Problems?

How many people were at the dance?

When they danced as couples one person was left over.
When they danced in threes one person was left over.
When they danced in fours one person was left over.
When they danced in fives one person was left over.

Researching Mathematics Provision

Recently children and teaching staff have used a research process known as the Nominal Group Technique to help identify how to children could do even better at maths.  As part of the research the the participants thought how children could improve at maths and then voted for the ideas that they thought were the most important. The results were enlightening and have been used to target additional support.