Mathematics Curriculum Posts
Young Apprentice 2026
Recently, our amazing Year 6 pupils stepped into the world of business as they took on the Young Apprentice Challenge. Armed with a budget of just £15, each team had to decide what to [...]
Young Apprentice 2025
This week our amazing Year 6 pupils took on the Young Apprentice challenge. With a budget of just £10, they purchased everything from craft supplies to raffle prizes and transformed them into products to sell.Pupils [...]
Chatta Maths Visit
Chris, our Chatta expert, modelled how teachers can use the Chatta approach to showcase high levels of vocabulary and oracy in mathematics. Chatta is a simple, powerful whole-class teaching approach based on audio-visual modelling, [...]
University Challenge 2021
Children from Y5/6 have studied hard throughout the year to earn a place in our annual University Challenge competition. Almost every pupil passed at least one Graduate Award (with many gaining ten or even [...]
Masterchef 2020
Masterchef 2020 Bread from throughout history Foundation: Modern Bread Year 1: Scottish Bannock Bread Year 2: A 400 year old Bread Recipe Year 3: Roman Bread Year 4: Anglo Saxon Bread Year [...]
EYFS Fireworks and Counting
Recently the children in EYFS have been learning about Bonfire night. They have made a short film, on our green screen and have used their counting skills to count fireworks in the night sky. [...]
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