As part of our work on place value, the children have been learning to use and recognise the symbols <, > and = associated with less than, greater than and equal to. After comparing objects, they used practical apparatus to help them show that a range of given statements were true. As they were working, …
Today, Year 2 learnt how to estimate on a number line. We made our own number line on the carpet and practised estimating where the numbers should go. We then worked in pairs and challenged each other to estimating on different number lines. Good work, Year 2!
As part of our topic work, Skylarks have been learning about the world around them. Last week, we learnt about physical geography features (made by nature) and human geography features (made by humans). We identified beaches, seas, oceans, cliffs and mountains as examples of physical geography features and harbours, ports, cities and towns as examples …
In Skylarks, the children have been learning how to find one more and one less than a number to 10. Today, the children played a board game with their partner. When they landed on a number, they had to find one less than the number given. As well as some fantastic calculating skills, we also …
Today we visited the beach! Only through meditation but the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience of hearing the waves crashing against the shore, the seagulls squawking and imagining their feet walking on the warm sand. As a class, we then discussed all of the activities that we might get up to when we are at …
This half term, our topic is “Hooray, Let’s Go On Holiday!” To excite the children about their learning, we start each new topic with an entry point – a fun and exciting activity which brings the learning to life. Today, the children opened up their own travel agents and practised role playing the roles of …
This week, Year 1 have been practising how to count objects from a larger group. We used counting cubes and sentence stems to show our understanding. Once we were confident counting objects, we progressed to representing numbers up to 10 in different ways (written form, numeral form, counting cubes and a pictorial representation.) Take a …
In today’s lesson, Year 2 learnt to represent numbers to 100 using tens and ones. They used a variety of equipment and pictorial representations to build the numbers, allowing them to visualise the number of tens and ones. Take a look at our learning below!
This week, Year 1 are learning how to sort objects in different ways based on their characteristics. Today, we enjoyed sorting objects by their size, colour and type. We learnt that you can sort the same set of objects in different ways. At the end of the lesson, we challenged ourselves by sorting every object …
This half term we have been learning about the history of our local area – Guiseley. Jacob from Codswallop came in to teach the children about a famous local figure – Abraham Moon. Abraham Moon founded Moon’s Mills which is now known internationally for the quality fabric it produces. We started off the session by …