Maths

Many thanks for all your contributions for Number Day.  And thank you so much for getting your children to school looking amazing!  

From speaking with children and staff today, it sounds like we had a really great day. Here are some activities which were going on during the day: children in Yangtze class were manipulating some very large numbers to see if they could find different properties; children in Congo class were trying to work out combinations of ice cream flavours. They thought it was easy at first, finding combinations of flavours on double ice cream cones. It was, until I gave them five different flavours – and flake or no flake – to consider; children in Colorado played a version of the beetle drive; children in Danube class designed t-shirts with numbers and patterns on. Throughout the day, we also took part in a Times Tables Rock Stars NSPCC challenge. I don’t think we won the tournament, but we had a lot of fun. The children definitely agreed that it was a good day, and said they fancied another Number Day next year. Well done, all!

https://ttrockstars.com/

What a fabulous turnout from so many of you for our maths SHARE morning.  It was great to see so many faces, especially a good few Dads. We are very lucky to be working with the team from Multiply Suffolk Project, and it was fantastic to introduce Lisa Gilson, as part of the team. Lisa and her colleagues have funding to work with parents/carers, organising free flexible courses and training, and we are able to use our school as a base. 

If you were not able to attend our morning, you can find out more and get in touch with the team on the link below, if you think you might benefit from some training. Courses include helping your children with maths homework and ‘back to work’ maths for the jobs market. 

https://infolink.suffolk.gov.uk/kb5/suffolk/infolink/service.page?id=RAJbS9_g1qs

But, if we’re inviting you into school, we can never resist getting you into your children’s classes!  We had a range of activities to show you, with a bit of a sparky, Christmas theme. (Well, it is December next month!). It looks like we had a lot of fun, and a chance to get those maths brains working again. Many thanks to everybody who attended.

“I wish it could be maths all day!” is something we do often hear in Fressingfield. So, we made this wish come true when we celebrated Number Day. Sponsored by the NSPCC, we have all had a fantastic day, which included puzzles, mazes, code cracking and, at one point, all the children in key stages 1 and 2 challenging each other to games of snakes and ladders!  Many thanks to families who organised outfits with numbers or patterns on, and also to those who donated to the NSPCC. 

We decided to organise our first ever NSPCC Number Day at Fressingfield.  The NSPCC is a great charity, and we at Fressingfield love maths – the children love learning maths and the adults love teaching maths.

Flossie decided to wear number 10 on her back, because she ‘really wants to be 10’.

Oliver wore number 42, as it was his favourite number; ‘straight from a Spiderman movie’.

Ms Perry wore number 1999, because she felt like she could ‘party like it’s 1999’!

The children enjoyed a range of activities, from outside learning (finding collections of a number, and being a number) to cracking codes involving letters on the page of a book.  Mrs Buckenham chose the sneakiest, trickiest number bonds puzzle, which her class refused to give up on!  And Ms Perry finally found a way to crack division with remainders by using packets of Skittles!

Here are some quotes from the children in Congo Class:

‘I thought the Roman numerals treasure hunt was clever.  I found the first one really hard, but the rest easy.  I learned my Roman numerals better because of this.’ – James

‘It was medium hard.  The trickiest thing was trying to find out the words.  I enjoyed having a partner to help me.  I learned a lot more Roman numerals.’ – Sienna

‘I found the Skittles division medium, because at the start I got them wrong, but soon after I started to understand.  Now I know how to do divide.’ – George

‘I found putting the number bonds in the right place (on the triangle) hard, but I got it in the end’ – Oliver

‘The number bonds puzzle was tricky at first, and then it got easier, and I got the hang of it.’ – Daisy

‘The number bonds were tricky, because I didn’t really understand at first, but at least I learned some number bonds to 100’ – Charlotte