What it's like to be a Mathematician

What's it like to be a Mathematician at Excalibur?

Year 5 - Exciting! I love maths and learn skills that help me to understand maths in life! 

Year 4 - It's challenging and fun. 

Year 5 - I'm curious about maths.  I like that I can explain how I get to answers. 

Year 4 - We use equipment that helps me understand.

Year 5 - Learning maths will help me to be a rocket scientist or a hairdresser.  Lots of careers need us to understand maths!

Year 4 - The maths we learn will help me when I'm older.  When I go shopping, I use maths that i've learnt to add things.  I figure out how much money I will need. 

Year 5 - I like the different units in maths and having different books for each unit.  It helps me to understand better. 

Year 5 - We have lots of resources that we can use to help our learning.

Preschool FS1

Pre-school investigated different blocks to see how we could make a more stable bridge. The children used mathematical language to describe the blocks.   We also named the 3D shapes and discussed their properties.  The bridges were soon turned into elaborate towers and  castles.

We have also been learning how to make 5!

Check out our number puzzles!

We have enjoyed learning lots of number rhymes...

Reception FS2

Our Reception class have been learning how to make numbers using different types of tens frames.

Year 1

We have been very busy comparing capacity and using scales to compare weight.

Year 2

In our shape topic, we have been counting the number of sides and vertices...

Year 3

Year 3 have been practicing making quarter, half, three-quarter and whole turns in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions and in familiar contexts such as on a clock face or the points of a compass.
We then have started to visualise the starting and finishing points of the turn as two straight lines that meet at a point and that an angle is created at the point where these lines meet.

Year 4

Year 4 have been recapping full, half and quarter turns. We have done this by standing up and turning as instructed, including a variety of different turns both clockwise and anticlockwise. We then discussed the significance of clockwise and anticlockwise using the hands of a clock to demonstrate if needed. After this we explored different turns from different starting points, including using compass directions. Afterwards we looked what a pictorial representation of an angle looks like and how this relates to turns.

Year 5

This term, we have been learning about shape, position and direction, decimal numbers and negative numbers.

Year 6

During the summer term, four of our Year 6's took part in a national online maths challenge.  They successfully got through t the semi-finals after coming 28th out of nearly a hundred schools!  Even though they just missed out on the finals, they did extremely well and represented Excalibur brilliantly.