Year 4 have been working through their Multiplication topic in Maths this half-term. This week, we have used counters to help with multiplying 3 numbers.
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Area Model Multiplication
Year 5 started to learn about multiplying by 2 digit numbers using the area model. They used Dienes equipment to multiply the tens and ones and then added all of their answers together. This will help them to understand the reasoning behind formal written methods of multiplication. There were lots of opportunities in this practical… Continue Reading
Hoops4health
Year 5 have been working with The Newcastle Eagles in their Hoops4health programme. The Eagles came into school to deliver a roadshow and some coaching sessions before the children took part in a basketball tournament at The Eagles Community Arena. We took four teams to play in the tournament and everyone played extremely well. It… Continue Reading
Reading at St. Teresa’s
This week, Mr Turner and Mrs Mackenzie had the pleasure of visiting all the children’s classrooms looking at their learning environments. It was wonderful to see all the children’s work and all the great learning displays on show. Each class have fantastic areas that promote the love of reading to all our children. Children can… Continue Reading
Coding in Year One
Today the children were working on coding in the ICT suite. The children are working their way through a series of lessons that develop their skills and knowledge about coding. Today the children learnt about moving the mouse and how to click and drag. Some children were programming a code to make the icon move… Continue Reading
Well being Wednesday
Every week the children in Year One participate in a well-being session and this week the children were thinking about the qualities of their friends. Each child in the class picked out a lolly-stick with a name on and then went away and thought about this friend. The children then wrote a short message to… Continue Reading
Adding by making 10 in Year one
Year One have been investigating adding two one digit numbers together by making 10. The children all used ten frames and counters to investigate each calculation. First they made both numbers on the ten frame with counters, then they moved counters to fill up the first ten frame and then counted the counters from 10… Continue Reading
The Little Way 13.1.20
Please find below this week’s newsletter. January 13th 2020 Continue Reading
Christmas fair cookery
In preparation for the Christmas fair we decided to make some peppermint creams. First we tasted some to decide the flavour we wanted. Next we carefully mixed our ingredients to create the delicious treats to sell at the fair. Continue Reading
Bar Modelling in Year One
The children have been working on adding by counting on. Today the children used the bar model whilst solving calculations. As the children completed each calculation they told their learning partner a math number story that included the key words first, then and now. The stories were very entertaining and were as varied as including… Continue Reading
