Just like that – our Maths Week fun has come to an end and big thanks go out to all the pupils, parents, class teachers and the fab organiser behind it all – Mrs McHarg!
To take you through this week’s highlights, on Monday we investigated maths in art! Mrs Wither’s class used different 2D shapes to create castles, while Miss McNicoll’s class played with parabolic curves on graphs and create some funky patterns to decorate the room.
On Tuesday we had a big day with maths and ICT, trying to get as ‘full STEM ahead’ as we could! Lower school used the Beebots and coding mouse to make letters using their programming skills while the upper school proved their computer whizz kid skills using a coding website called ‘Scratch’ to make letters – with great success!
Then on Wednesday, Mrs Wither’s class took advantage of the good weather and headed outside to discover maths outdoors, using what they could find in nature to count and create numbers and I’m sure you’ll agree from looking at the photos; they did a good job! Miss McNicoll’s class waited until later to go outside and do some number relays and games to incorporate maths into their exercise, successfully tiring out both the minds and the bodies!
Thursday was the highlight of the week because it gave us the chance to have everyone come together for a spot of baking! Parents came into school and joined us in making tasty treats; Miss Wither’s class produced some mouth-watering Rugby slice while Miss McNicoll’s older pupils got messy with melted chocolate to make rocky road slices. I can whole-heartedly confirm there was definitely more than one face smothered with a chocolate goatee!
And the week draws to a close on Friday where the lower school pupils went about their Big Maths business, hopefully smashing those CLIC tests and Beat That’s out of the park! Upper school took their turn venturing outside on a Maths Scavenger hunt devised by Mrs McHarg – thankfully the weather was kind to them.
A big, huge thank you to everyone who participated in Maths week from coming in for the baking to giving the homework challenge of ‘Maths is Everywhere’ a shot – It has been so greatly appreciated! We have all had an amazing time and look forward to seeing what the next year’s week of number fun brings! For now please have a flick through the photos to get an insight into how busy we have been.
