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Upper School were thrilled to host a Maths afternoon, filled with fabulously fun stalls for all the children from Middle and Lower School to join in with! They designed, organised and managed their own stalls; it was an absolute delight to see them encourage the little ones to attempt their…

This morning, Upper School were presented with a factors and multiples challenge which, whilst testing their ability to apply their mathematical knowledge, required a range of thinking skills...particularly, a positive ‘Growth Mindset’ about it being possible and remembering not to give…

Reagan has been busy baking maths themed biscuits in the shape of dominoes at home, they looked fabulous Reagan!

Thank you so much to Upper School for inviting us to play all the different games and take part in challenges on your maths stalls this afternoon. We had so much fun.

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Think it Thursday saw the children taking on some challenging maths puzzles in the morning - including working out how many presents were delivered in total in the 12 days of Christmas song (spoiler- there were 364!) 
In the afternoon we were treated to a maths activities fayre by upper school.…

For wear it Wednesday in our maths week, the children came dressed in maths inspired outfits. Here are middle school enjoying sharing their costumes with the rest of the school.

Our second day of maths week brought us 'teamwork Tuesday' where the children discussed the importance of working as a team to achieve their tasks. 
We begun with some team games, including 'flip the rug' where all of the children had to flip a blanket over whilst still being stood on top of it. 
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This morning Upper School children came dressed up for ‘wear it Wednesday’. We had a ‘coder’, farmers, blackboard, footballers, chef, Miss Langley, dice and maths jokes as well as school children who love to learn maths.

We have had a challenge morning with a ‘paper bridge structure’ with just…

We have had a very busy maths day! Take a look at these photos to see the activities and fun we’ve had doing a ‘maths March’ together. 
 

In Upper School this morning, the children continued their intergalactic mission by solving some more mathematical challenges. The first involved 15 coins and 4 pots. The children had to find a way to arrange the coins into the pots to be able to make all the numbers 1-15. They discovered that…

It’s Maths Week this week at Inskip and we’re planning to celebrate, develop and enjoy our maths skills through lots of different activities.

In Lower School this morning we launched our week by thinking about Growth Mindset and how having a ‘can do’ attitude to all our learning makes us happy,…

In our Science lesson today, the Upper School children investigated what happens to their heart rates during and after exercise. They enjoyed finding their pulse in different ways and taking measurements before and after exercise. The results showed them very clearly that their hearts needed to…

To kick off maths week, middle school have been learning about perimeter.
Once we had learned how to work out a perimeter, children set off into the classroom to measure and find the perimeter of as many rectangular objects as they could!