The whole school have been working hard today, applying a variety of Maths skills across the curriculum.
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| Designing repeating patterns for wrapping paper |
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| Sorting money to label our toys - Year R |
The day was inspired by a book called 'A Present for Santa Claus' - about a little boy who saves up to buy the neglected Santa his own Christmas present.
Year R have had a phone call from Santa himself, saying he'd run out of toys! The children were asked to put prices on their toys to help him out, and design some wrapping paper with repeating patterns.
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| Weighing our flour |
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| Our instructions |
Year 1 have been making cookies to sell! They have been used non standard units to measure the ingredients and are going to sell them to the rest of the school tomorrow. The money will use used to fund Santa's present.
Some quotes from the children:
"We're making cookies and selling them tomorrow"
"We've used multilink to help us weigh the ingredients"
Year 2 have also been making cookies to sell, but have moved on to using standard units of measurement. The children were so excited!
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| Year 2's instructions for the morning |
" We're doing Maths for real!" "We're going to sell our cookies, we want to raise £100!" "We need to buy him something to keep him nice and cosy in the cold".
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| They were also thinking about designing cookie bags using patterns and shapes. " If this was real, it would be the heaviest because it's large..." Are they always right? |
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| Really enjoying the morning so far! |
Year 3 and 4 have been working together all morning. They have been working out how much they could save per week, given different amounts of coins and a set number of weeks. They then used the internet and shop catalogues to shop for Santa within a given budget.
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| It's a hard job deciding what to buy Santa! |
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| How much is delivery?! |
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| Researching distances |
Year 5 and 6 have also been working together and thinking about the wider world. They used map skills to identify countries where children are not as fortunate, and where charities send shoe boxes full of gifts to. They had to plot these on a map, and then research how many miles from Southampton to the country, rounding these to the nearest 100 miles. They then plotted these findings on a graph. After that,some children worked out how much it would cost to post a shoe box to this place, and then some even worked out the capacity of the shoe box in order to fill with gifts.
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| Year 6 work out the capacity |
A huge well done to all of the children and staff for putting together an excellent WOW day based around Maths. Other outcomes also included pieces of writing, DT pop up cards, geography skills and art.
Watch out for further posts from individual classes to see what they have done in more detail!
" We're doing Maths for real!" "We're going to sell our cookies, we want to raise £100!" "We need to buy him something to keep him nice and cosy in the cold".
Year 5 and 6 have also been working together and thinking about the wider world. They used map skills to identify countries where children are not as fortunate, and where charities send shoe boxes full of gifts to. They had to plot these on a map, and then research how many miles from Southampton to the country, rounding these to the nearest 100 miles. They then plotted these findings on a graph. After that,some children worked out how much it would cost to post a shoe box to this place, and then some even worked out the capacity of the shoe box in order to fill with gifts.
