Maths

At St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Personal, Social, Health, and Economic (PSHE) education is embedded within our

overarching curriculum that prepares our children for many different aspects of their lives.

Our overall goal is to help our children to become well-rounded individuals with strong character, who will eventually go out into the world of adults and be actively and positively involved in society. In order to do this, we are striving to create a conducive environment around the school and this year we have created our own specific Personal Development Curriculum that is entwined with our academic curriculum.

Our curriculum aims to provide engagement and enrichment and through this, we aim for all children to have equal opportunities to thrive together.

The children in Accordian Class have been looking at repeating patterns

Marvellous Mathematicians!

Take a look at some of our problem solving! This half term in maths we have focused on number and place value, addition and subtraction and plenty of problem solving! We’ve also used our morning maths skills during our weekly arithmetic tests and throughout our maths lessons! Well done year 6!

Maths in Bodhran Class

At the start of September we worked very hard on number recognition and correct number formation. Over the last few weeks the children in Bodhran Class have been working on their place value. The children have represented numbers, learnt to count on from any number, ordered numbers and found one more and one less. We always have lots of practical resources out to support our learning and we are really starting to use our classroom to help us.

Over the last few weeks, Flute Class have been working on their place value. They have represented numbers, partitioned them and ordered them.

Accordian Class

We have been looking at matching, sorting and ordering objects into different groups. The children used the autumn objects to link with the season/time of year which encouraged more communication and key vocabulary.

Maths in Harp Class

Looking at place value, comparing numbers / objects, Roman numerals and much more.

Bullseye Maths Competition

We had the opportunity to take part in a 'Bullseye Maths Competition.' We answered maths questions and linked this to playing darts. We even had the opportunity to meet a professional darts player. What a successful day!

Magic Maths

Our year 6 children created a board game based on year 1 learning objectives. They played these games with the year 1 children - what a success! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

Year 4 Maths - calculating the perimeter

Year 4 discussed the meaning of a polygon, as well as what regular and irregular polygons look like. The children created their own shape using masking tape, measured each side and then calculated the perimeter. The children thoroughly enjoyed it.

Lionni Class

Hughes Class- Year 1

Hughes Class have been busy working on their place value skills. The children have used lot’s of practical resources to help them and they can now add two, 2-digit numbers together. Well done Hughes Class, you are all maths superstars!

Sendak Maths Challenge

Today, we worked in partners on our fraction problem solving! We challenged ourselves with different level questions and highlighted the important parts before even attempting it! We worked so hard!

Luionni Class have been learning all about 2D & 3D shapes and their properties.

Briggs Class...

This half term the children have been looking at numbers, 2D shapes and positional language.

The Division Competition

Today, we worked in pairs to answer as many division questions as possible. We put our remainders into fractions and decimals! What a competition!

A Maths Carousel - Prime numbers, square numbers, cube numbers and order of operations

In maths today, we worked with our talking partners to work on our problem solving skills involving prime, cube and square numbers.

Maths Potter Class

During this term we have been looking at place value and addition and subtraction. We have done this through our workbook, mentally and practically. They have all enjoyed doing practical math's to enhance their learning.

Maurice Sendak Class: Factors & Common Factors

Lionni Class- Place Value- Number bonds to 10 & 20.

Year 1- Shirley Hughes Class

At the start of year 1, Shirley Hughes Class were thinking about numbers and place value. We have now moved on (although we are ALWAYS thinking about numbers and place value) and we are looking at addition fact families and subtraction. We are really thinking about what +, - and = mean and how we use these signs in maths. We continue to do lots of activities using concrete resources to support our understanding of the part, part, whole models and number bonds to 10.