Maths

Maths Week competition Thank you to all the children who entered the Maths Week competition. It was wonderful to see so many artistic posters displaying Mathematical penguins, the children were very creative and it was very hard to choose a winner in each phase group. Each child who entered the competition received a certificate. Photographs […]

The whole school has been celebrating Maths Week 2023 through a number of mathematical activities and investigations. To start the week, a special bag was delivered to each classroom and the children had to solve the quiz to find the number to unlock the padlock. Once the children unlocked the padlock, they were excited to […]

To encourage children’s enthusiasm and fascination for Maths, ‘Can you guess the number?’ is an interactive display in the school. Every child in one-year group describes the number with a variety of clues and the rest of the school try to guess the number. We are trying to encourage children to explain how they got […]

As part of the NSPCC Number Day last week, KS2 participated in a friendly TT Rock Stars competition involving schools in the United Kingdom. 64,097, 655 questions were answered collectively by 466, 721 children from more than 2,966 schools and 60, 370 classes around the country! All children who participated in this tournament improved their […]

Children throughout the school had a wonderful Number Day today! Every child was able to share their number with their class and explain why they chose their number. E.g. I chose the number 3 because I am the third child in my family. I chose the number 10 million because it is my age multiplied […]

We are delighted to be taking part in Number Day on Friday 3rd February. Number Day is a great way to make Maths fun and bring about a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude towards it. We are planning to have a fun day of Maths number activities. We would like the children to come into school with […]

We are incredibly proud of the children at St Catherine’s Primary School, as our school came 875th (out of 3937 schools) in the recent England Rocks TT Rockstars tournament. The competition was fierce with 171,027,491 questions answered collectively by 704,979 pupils from 3,937 schools and 82,483 classes around the country. Our school statistics were astounding. […]

Maths Day In Year 2, they read the story called ‘One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab’ and then the children worked together in their talk partner pairs to answer problems such as: ‘How many ways can you make 10?’ and they responded with:  10 = one spider and a snail  10 = one spider and one person  […]

This week we have celebrated Maths Week which is all about building children’s confidence, nurturing a love of maths and sparking an interest in a subject that impacts all of our lives, every day. We all took part in a whole school challenge called ‘I’m Eight’ where we had to represent the number 8 in a […]