Maths
At Stockton Wood, we believe that Mathematics is a fundamental skill that is essential for everyday life and the foundation for future academic success. We strive to create a positive learning environment where all children feel confident and empowered to engage with mathematical concepts while developing critical thinking skills.
In the Nursery, we implement the Master the Curriculum programme, which focuses on embedding early mathematical concepts through play and exploration. This structured approach ensures a smooth transition to the more formal Maths curriculum in Reception and beyond.
From Reception to Year 6, we implement the White Rose scheme of learning, which provides a cohesive and progressive approach to Maths education. This scheme facilitates consistent planning, assessment, and teaching methodologies that align with the National Curriculum expectations. Each unit is designed with a focus on varying the depth of learning and enabling pupils to demonstrate mastery in their understanding.
In addition to the main curriculum, we utilise “Fluent in Five” from Year 1 to Year 6. This separate fluency session promotes daily practice of essential number facts and skills, helping pupils to develop speed and accuracy in mathematical reasoning. Fluent in Five provides a daily set of arithmetic questions, designed to help children develop and maintain fluency in both written and mental calculations.
Rec-Y6 Curriculum Overview 25-26
Maths Chatter
Maths
In Maths, reception have been learning about sorting and matching. This week reception used the Autumn objects to create their own sorting rule. The children made many different rules including:
-brown and not brown
-round and not round.
Maths
Today in Maths, 3M used the place value resources to add or subtract 10 and 100 from numbers.
Year 6- Common factors
Year 6 used sorting rings to represent common factors of different numbers.
Year 6- building arrays with concrete resources.
Year 6 enjoyed using arrays to find factor pairs of a number.
Maths
Reception have explored numbers to 5, they placed the correct amount of cubes onto the numbers!
Year One
Year One have enjoyed the return to school and seeing all of their friends again. They have been sharing their summer news, taking turns when playing, practising counting skills and creating self portraits!
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Pirates!
This week we have been learning about maps. We have have made and described our pirates and pirate maps. We did lots of fun activities !
Making lemon cheesecake pie!
In big cook little cook, we made delicious lemon cheesecake pie! Mrs Sefton made us close our eyes so we could use our sense of smell to guess which fruit we would be using! Nice try Mrs Sefton, you couldn’t trick us! 🍋
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Y2 Maths
Today Y2 have been improving their calculation strategies by bridging multiples of 10. They have used concrete and pictorial methods to help them.
Maths
Year 3 have been love our topic of shape in maths! We used some cubes to make different 3D shapes!
Active Science- Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists through Sport
A huge thanks to Jade and Josh from Everton in the Community who came into school to work with our Y6 pupils. We have used our scientific and mathematical knowledge to engage with a range of activities to help us understand the impact of diet and exercise on our bodies. We used a range of equipment to take accurate measurements and we discovered how air resistance can affect our running performance. A great day.
Understanding positional language
We are learning about positional language. This game is a great way for us practise! We have to look really careful at the pictures and listen to the position of the objects.
Art Week🎨
This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨
Tricky Maths in Year 5
This week we challenged ourselves to use a protractor to measure and draw angles. Those of us that were confident helped others.
Year One – Maths
Wonderful counting in tens and ones today using a range of practical resources! Good use of 100 squares to record the final answers.
Year 6 Angles
Year 6 enjoyed applying their knowledge of shape to solve different angles created on the classroom tables. The children used protractors and specific rules to ensure all the angles were correct and precise.
Maths- Class 6MR
We constructed 3D shapes from nets which helped us to develop our spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. A fun and engaging way to explore 3D shapes, their properties and the relationships between 2D and 3D forms.
Maths games
One of 5M’s favourite maths games is the ‘Place value’ game!
We particularly like it when we try to beat the teacher 🤩
Year One – Big Friday Quiz
Wonderful retrieval of prior learning in our Big Friday Quiz today. Well done everyone! Our winning team scored full marks!
Maths, shapes 🟥🔵🔺
In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. Today we have been looking at what 2D shapes we can see in the 3D shapes. We used our printing skills to help us do this. 🎨
3D Shapes
This week we have been exploring 3D shapes and their properties. We have used paint to print the faces of the 3D shapes.
Year 6- Arithmetic treasure hunt
Year 6 enjoyed taking Maths out of the classroom to revise key arithmetic skills learnt this year!
Big cook, little cook
Mrs Sefton made us smile today…we walked into Nursery and spotted the scales and baking ingredients and we knew straight away it was time for big cook, little cook! We weighed all the ingredients, and carefully mixed them together to make lemon tarts! We enjoyed eating them at snack time.
Watching the crane!
We were so excited when we spotted the crane from our garden! The children used words to describe the size of the crane (huge, gigantic, enormous) and we took turns in talking about what we thought the crane might be doing.
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Maths Treasure Hunt Y6
We worked with a partner to solve as many of the arithmetic questions we could find! A fun way to revise our mathematical strategies!
Making Equal Groups
As a class we grouped 30 counters into equal groups. We could do this in groups of 2,3,5 and 10.
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Making arrays
Today we having been looking at arrays in maths. We have looked at columns, rows and completed the stem sentences.
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Year One – Maths
Great adding equal groups in Maths today. Good partner work, use of counters and hundred squares to solve each question.
Have a fun Easter Break!
5M had a lovely afternoon after working so hard all morning 🥳🤩
Maths – tall and short
We have been learning about tall, short, taller and shorter. We compared beanstalks, and talked about which was the tallest and which was the shortest.
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Maths- Odd and Even
Today in reception we have explored odd and even numbers. We made our very own odd and even monsters 👹
Maths- capacity
we have been exploring the language:
full, nearly full, nearly empty and empty.
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Year 5 Maths CPA
Even when not in our classroom, we will always find time to use concrete, pictorial and abstract resources to support our maths learning.
Year 2 Maths
This week we looked at capacity, here we are comparing the capacity of different containers.
Year One – Mathematics
Super skills displayed whilst exploring the mass of objects. Good use of ‘lighter and heavier’ vocabulary when comparing the mass of classroom objects.
5M LifeSavers Big Question 4: How does our money help others?
We had some really interesting conversations about how your money can go a long way and can help a lot of people, when we choose to spend or donate it!
Year 6- Drawing shapes accurately
6B worked hard using a ruler and a protractor to measure and draw both angles and lengths accurately.
Maths
We are looking at height and length using the language, tall, taller, short, shorter.
we organised ourselves into height order.
Year One – Maths
Amazing partitioning into tens and ones in maths today! Good use of base ten and part whole models.
Stay and Learn
3McK enjoyed being mini teachers for the afternoon as they taught their adults how to measure shapes and work out their perimeters. Thank you to all the adults who attended!
Maths teamwork 5H
5H have been working hard this week to master long multiplication. Today we worked together on our reasoning and problem solving question.
Jam Sandwiches
In maths reception have been exploring sequencing by ordering and following instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.
Year 6- Investigating angles
In Maths, Year 6 have been learning about vertically opposite angles equalling the same amount.
Year 5 Parent Stay and Learn session
5M thoroughly enjoyed a bit of competition when solving two step word problems in our parent stay and learn session. Everyone was successful and seemed to have lots of fun. It is also evident that we have some great Mathematicians in our class!
Year 5 Stay and Learn
Wonderful stay and learn today. Solving maths problems in teams to win prizes! Well done everyone, we have some great mathematicians.
3M Stay and Learn
Thank you to those who were able to come to our stay and learn session focusing on measuring perimeter.
Maths Stay and Learn
Thank you to all the adults that came to our stay and learn this half term. We hope you enjoyed learning how to measure perimeter!
Stay and Learn
Thank you to everyone who joined us for stay and learn. We loved showing our grown-ups some of our times table games.
Stay and Learn Y6MR
Thank you to all parents who came to support our stay and learn today. Multiplication bingo and magic squares made for a fun maths morning.
Year 6- Stay and Learn
6B enjoyed multiplication bingo and solving Magic Square problems in our parent session this morning!
Stay and Learn
Year 1 had a lovely time learning all about the history of St Valentine. We had fun with some Valentines maths problems too! Thank you to all our families for coming along!
Year One – Stay and Learn
We’ve had a fun filled afternoon learning all about the history of St Valentine and used our problem solving skills to solve calculations using numbers up to 20.
Year 4 ~ Stay and learn
Thank you for all the parents that came to join us this morning. Our session’s focus was times tables.
Stay and Learn
We have had a fantastic afternoon with our stay and learn! We enjoyed showing off our learning. Thank you to our families who helped us with our maths focus today!
Stay and Learn
Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning! It was a huge success and the children really love welcoming their families into their classroom. We made our own dough, made some porridge and tasted it just like Goldilocks, cutting and sticking, and fine motor activities. The children really enjoyed it and we hope you did too 🥰
Big Cook, Little Cook
Have a look at our ingredients…what do you think is on the menu today? We had to listen really carefully to Mrs Sefton as she told us the steps of the recipe…
Year 5 CPA Maths!
5M consolidated their learning in Maths today, when they replaced the concrete resources with pictorial representations. This helped them to understand the mathematical concept further.
Year 5 – Concrete resources
5M used concrete resources in Maths today to help us add mixed numbers.
Year 1 Maths
1C worked really hard in maths this morning. We used concrete resources and pictorial representations to calculate near doubles. We will carry on with this learning next week!
multiplication and division
Year 4 have been enjoying Maths lessons this week. We have been using our resources to help with our multiplication and division.
Subitising 3
Did you know…we can now subitise 3! This means, if we see 3 objects together, we no longer need to count them! We know there are 3 objects just by making links and noticing patterns.
5H Big Friday Quiz!
5H enjoyed the BFQ today, with over 30 dojos to win! Well done!
Y2 Maths
2D have been working out groups of to write multiplication sentences today.
