This week in Forest School 6S enjoyed creating shelters for a range of woodland creatures. We then tracked the temperature inside our habitats and recorded our data using line graphs.
Read MoreNumbots
We are very excited to have launched NumBots with our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children at St Catherine’s. It is an online learning platform that we are using to support children’s understanding of number bonds and to help their addition and subtraction skills. These are the essential building blocks for higher-level maths concepts, […]
Read MoreY5 Maths Challenge
Year 5 Maths challenge A group of Year 5 children participated in a Maths challenge this week. This friendly, online, inter-school competition provided the children with a fantastic opportunity to apply their knowledge of mathematics and teamwork skills. The hour-long heat was comprised of a set of four equally weighted rounds, each designed to test […]
Read MoreRP Weekly Learning w/e 23/2/24
RP have been busy investigating length, using the words ‘long’ and ‘short’. We have been making long wiggly worms and short wiggly worms.
Read MoreRT Weekly Learning w/e 23/2/24
This week in RT we have been measuring objects and comparing different lengths. We have been using the words longer, shorter, longest, and shortest to describe objects we have found, and the things we have made and built.
Read More2KW Weekly Update w/e 23/2/24
The children in 2KW learnt that division can be thought of as grouping. They worked practically with a partner to group objects to solve division sums.
Read MoreNSPCC Number Day
Children throughout the school had a wonderful Number Day today. Children were able to share their number with their class and explain why they chose their number. Children then took part in a group activity with the number that was special to them e.g. what was the total of all the numbers in their group […]
Read MoreNSPCC Number Day – Friday 2nd February 2024
We are delighted to be taking part in the NSPCC Number Day on Friday 2nd February. Number Day is a great way to embrace numbers and mathematics in a creative and enjoyable way. We are planning to have a fun day of Maths number activities. We would like the children to come into school with a […]
Read MoreTTRS England Rocks Competition
KS2 participated in a friendly TT Rock Stars competition involving schools in the United Kingdom. 187,079,415 questions were answered collectively by 377,972 children from more than 4,398 schools and 70,774 classes around the country! All children who participated in this tournament improved their recall and speed as the time went on. The top three classes at St Catherine’s was 4S, 6G and 5MG. […]
Read MoreTimes Tables Rock Stars Challenge – 14th-16th November 2023
Times Table Rock Stars is a fun and challenging programme which allows children to develop their confidence and fluency with the multiplication tables and related division facts. Children are encouraged to play different games to earn coins, which can be spent developing their Rock Star Avatars. As a school we encourage children to use TTRS […]
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