On World Maths Day, the children will be given the opportunity to take part in the Mathletics world wide challenge. This website has proven in the past to be an excellent motivator for the children practising their number facts to support their Maths Passport. Their recall improves and their responses get faster. This game will only be available for a few weeks after World Maths Day.

Also on World Maths Day, there will be other Maths activities including Maths Mysteries, practical maths tasks and Times Table Rockstar challenges. From the beginning of next week, there will be a Maths orienteering challenge with Maths questions placed around the playground. The children, working in Mileposts, will have to use the map to find the letters and answer the Maths calculations. An exciting week of learning activities for our children!

To bring this invisible feeling to life, we created Anxiety Creatures! Each student designed a creature that represented how anxiety feels to them—some were spiky, some tangled, some small and shaky. This activity helped us understand that while anxiety can be overwhelming, recognising it, is the first step in learning how to manage it.

The students started off with a wonderful introduction to their learning throughout the topic, including Geography and History and highlighted the cross curricular links to the specialist subjects, including Art, STEM and IT .  We were extremely fortunate that Ms. Kirsty and Ms. Liz participated in the Exit Point, further highlighting the strong learning that takes place across the school and demonstrating the valuable learning that takes place in their lessons.

The children enjoyed showing their parents how to control a beebot and used lots of key vocabulary in their demonstrations.  They also loved making paper boats with their parents and used science specific language to show the effects of forces in boat races.

Finally, the children went through their learning journey by showing their learning in their books and presented a poster to show the evolution of a form of transport.

Thank you to everyone for making the Exit Point a success!

Children used watercolours to create their own botanical drawing of a real life flower specimen. Cross-curricular links with Art helped children build on previous skills. Children have made interesting observations linking many different types of explorers to a range of time periods and we discussed the pros and cons when deciding on the most efficient and purposeful way to record new discoveries.

Using their knowledge of Mars' geographical features, they identified essential needs and possible luxuries for survival. The children worked within a budget, applying mathematical skills such as measuring area and perimeter, as well as creating nets of shapes to develop detailed 2D and 3D shelter plans. Throughout the project, they demonstrated their understanding by reflecting on their designs, making changes and improvements along the way. This creative and practical project has allowed students to apply their learning in exciting and imaginative ways!