Year 5 are continuing to enjoy their STEAM week. Today, we have been finalising our robot codes and timing our missions. We have been putting all our innovation information together, as a group, into our presentations and creating our speeches for the judges. We are looking forward to our final day tomorrow.
Year 6 have loved taking part in STEAM week so far, developing a wide range of skills including teamwork and communication.
The children have been working in 4 different groups. Some groups have been coding, the coding instructs the robot to move around the Lego and complete certain missions, each of which can earn points. While some groups have done this, other groups and have been preparing their presentations. The presentations must outline a design for how an art is showcased. We have some excellent examples in Y6 so far including, a fidget table to support children with additional needs, a stopmotion app which helps younger children to construct Lego and an inflatasuit to help with jetty jumping and prevent injuries.
Today, we continued with our STEM week activities.
We have been split into groups and in our groups we have started programming our Lego robot to complete various missions using the Lego models we built on Friday. As well as coding the robots, we have been producing a presentation to share with the judges, about sharing a hobby/interest with new people. We have looked at the careers of visual effects, stage management, sound engineering and museum co-ordinators to identify ways in which we could share our hobbies with others in an interesting and immersive way.
This week in maths, we are learning all about position and direction. We had lots of fun in the hall pretending to be robots and using directions (such as; forwards 5 spaces, a quarter turn to the left and backwards 1 space) to guide our ‘robot’ to the cone.
Year 2 have started our Statistics topic in maths this week. We know that there are different ways to gather information and record it. First we looked at tally charts. It was lots of fun using a tally chart to find out how many of each colour Smartie was in each tube.
In maths this week, Year 2 have been grouping and sharing amounts. We have used counters and blocks to help us to work out division sentences. We know that each group must be equal when dividing.
The children in year 2 had their first lessons using the Bee-Bots (robots that can be programmed using simple directional instructions). They were tasked with writing algorithms using the instructions: forwards, forwards, left and right.
They kept a record of the end position of the Bee-Bot and noticed that even though they gave it different instructions, it did end on the same few spots of the map.
Y3 have enjoyed using function machines to learn our 4 X table. We used known facts from our 2 X table and doubled them to work out our 4 X table. We then learnt a chant to roll our 4 X table rapidly off our tongues!
Super work Y3
Once again, our Key Stage 2 pupils have taken part in the national Times Tables Rock Stars competition ‘England Rocks’. Our boys and girls have superseded their previous achievements and come 11th out of 4080 primary schools!! This is a masssive accomplishment and shows everyone’s dedication to learning their times tables.
Y6F came 27th out of 30,034 classes. Again, a massive achievement!
We are exceptional proud of all of pupils who took part and their amazing times tables knowledge. Superb results!
In Year 2 we have been finding number bonds. We used ten frames and worked systematically to find all the number bonds to 10. Then we were challenged to use this knowledge to find number bonds to 20.
