Maths at Grove

Summer

 

 

Year 1 

This half term, year 1 have been learning about multiplication and division. They have been using many practical methods as well as written arrays to gain a deep understanding of this area of maths. 

 

 

Year 2 

Year 2 have been learning about fractions, including a halves, thirds and quarters. They have also been learning about time and telling the time using o clock and half past. 

 

 

Year 3

Year 3 have continued their learning about fractions from earlier in the year and have been finding unit and non-unit fractions of a quantity, putting their division and multiplication skills to good use. 

 

Year 4

Year 4 have been busy preparing for the timestable check and so many children have been working hard learning their times tables at home and in school. They have also continued their learning about decimals and have begun applying this understadning to solving problems with money. 

 

Year 5 

Year 5 have begun learning about shape. They have been learning about angles in a variety of contexts and what makes a regular and irregular polygon. They have also begun learning about position and direction and using coordinates to solve problems. 

 

 

 

Year 6 

Year 6 have worked so hard this term preparing for the SATs, the children have used a number of methods to help them revise and all tackled their tests with enthusiasm and perserverence. We are very proud of them. Well done year 6!

 

 

 

Spring

Nursery

For Spring 2 half term, Nursery have been working on numbers 1 to 10 using numicon and natural items found in the classroom and outside. They have also been exploring shape; using printing and painting to find shapes and hunting for them around the class room. They have been continuing to develop their subitising skills, finding numbers up to 3 without the need to count them individually. 

 

Reception

Reception have been busy this half term! They have continued with developing their skills in subitising, as well as finding objects around the room and outside to complete their number line to 10. They have also created jellyfish to support learning with number bonds to 10 and they have been learning about capacity! 

 

Year 1

 

During Spring 2 half term, Year 1 have been learning about mass and volume. They have learned how to find the mass of different objects using cubes and how to compare different masses. They have also been looking at new vocabulary to describe different volumes, such as full, empty, more and less.

 

Year 2

 

This half term in Year 2, they have been learning about mass and capacity. In mass, they have been introduced to grams and kilograms, and have explored the four operations with mass. In capacity, they have learned new vocabulary such as litres and millilitres, and have been reading scales to find out different volumes. Year 2 have just started their new unit on fractions, where they have been finding half of shapes. They will continue learning about fractions next half term. 

 

Year 3

 

This half term, Year 3 have been busily learning all about fractions and mass. In the fractions unit, they have learned all about unit and non-unit fractions, how to compare fractions, putting fractions on a number line and how to find equivalent fractions. They then moved on to mass, where they have been looking at reading scales, working with large amounts of grams and kilograms and finding equivalents between grams and kilograms. Next half term they will move on to capacity. 

 

Year 4

 

 

Year 4 have been introduced to the world of decimals this half term. Using lots of pictorial representations, the children have a good understanding of the relationship between fractions and decimals and are now looking at dividing by 10 and 100 where the answer is a decimal. 

 

Year 5 

Building on their understanding of fractions and decimals in year 4, year 5 have been recapping this knowledge and looking at equivalences between fractions and decimals. 

 

Year 5 have also been learning about area in a range of shapes including these trickier compound shapes. 

 

Year 6 

Year 6 have been working hard understanding, interpreting and now drawing pie charts, using their understanding of circles and degress to create the segments of the pie chart. 

 

 

Year 6 have also been using their understanding of coordinates in the 4 quadrants to draw a range of polygons, and then applying their knowledge of 2d shapes to identify what they have drawn. Well done year 6! 

Autumn

 

Nursery

This half term, the nursery children have been representing numbers using sand, numicon and multilink cubes. They have also been creating shapes with pipe cleaners, and they made a graph to show the different length hair of the children in the class, which links to their science and history topics!

 

Reception

  

Reception have been busy using concrete resources for lots of their maths learning this half term. They have been representing number, counting more and less and ordering natural objects according to their size.

 

Year 1

 

Year 1 have been looking at part whole models to further their understanding of number. They have also been working on finding numbers that are fewer, more and same, and using maths vocabulary such as greater than, less than and equal to. 

 

Year 2

 

Year 2 have been using concrete resources, and then moving on to pictorial representations, to show arrays when multiplying numbers. They have also been looking at shapes, finding the line of symmetry and then completing shapes using the line of symmetry. 

 

Year 3

 

Year 3 have worked on addition and subtraction this half term. They have been spotting patterns in addition and subtraction calculations, before moving on to completing addition and subtraction calculations with 2 and 3-digit numbers. 

 

 

Autumn 

 

The focus for this half term has been securing the children’s understanding of Place Value. The children have been working extremely hard to ensure they have a deep understanding of this foundation of mathematical understanding.

 

 

Nursery

In nursery, the children have been learning to recognise and count numbers up to 5. To support them, they have been using Numicon and natural objects around the classroom and the outdoor space.

 

 

 

Reception

The children in reception have been learning to recognise and count numbers up to 10, and have used subitising to recognise numbers up to 5. They have also been finding one more and one less up to 10.

 

 

 

Year 1

Year 1 have been working on fluently recalling the number bonds to 10, reading and writing numbers up to 20 and counting forwards and backwards within 50. They have also been laying the foundations for multiplication by practising doubling numbers up to 20, using Numicon and dienes to help them.

 

 

 

Year 2

The children in Year 2 have been reading and writing numbers up to 100 and recognising the place value and partitioning 2-digit numbers. They have been finding odd and even numbers, and exploring numbers that are greater than, less then and equal to each other.

 

 

Year 3

Year 3 have been working hard to understand how to write and read numerals in numbers and words.

 

They have also been mastering adding 10 and 100 to numbers. This requires a deep understanding of place value to add mentally.

 

 

They have been practising their reasoning skills using their understanding of ordering and comparing 3 digit numbers.

 

 

 

Year 4

Year 4 have been working hard to improve their reasoning skills and using their mathematical understanding to answer a range of different questions.

 

 

They have also been learning about rounding for the first time, beginning with learning about multiples of 1000 either side of a number and placing the number on a number line to see where it lies and which multiple it is closer to.

Moving on from the number line, children then started to use their understanding of place value to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

 

Year 5

Year 5 have been exploring numbers up to 1 000 000 and learning how to read and write these numbers. They have been using this understanding to answer real life style questions, applying their mathematical knowledge to real world situations.

 

 

Year 5 have been building on their rounding understanding in year 4 to round with numbers up to 1 000 000.

 

 

Year 6

Year 6 are showing a really deep understanding of place value, this can be seen in these excellent explanations of their mathematical reasoning.

 

 

 

They have also been doing some excellent work on the place value of decimals, answering a range of different style questions.