{"id":2566,"date":"2017-09-15T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:46:07","slug":"scottish-maths-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Maths Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our Trio schools have been having a very busy time participating in the Scottish Maths Week. The Scottish government has launched a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths positively.\u00a0 The aim is\u00a0for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways.<\/p>\n<p>The children have had a full timetable of maths focussed activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sumdog \u2013 national online maths competition<\/li>\n<li>Manga High Numeracy Ninjas competition<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor learning for numeracy\/maths working with decimals<\/li>\n<li>Maths Madness \u2013 whole school number fun with songs etc.<\/li>\n<li>Maths games afternoon kindly attended by parents to help children enjoy maths through play<\/li>\n<li>Careers in our community speed interviews; where friends and family joined us to discuss how maths has a role in the world of work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were joined by Susan McCourty, our local post mistress, Ali Cerexhe &amp; Robert McQueen from our local lifeboat, Paul McQuillan \u2013 bus driver, Mr &amp; Mrs Orr-Ewing \u2013 estate management, Miss Whorlow \u2013 electronics engineer and Miss Kerr \u2013 teacher. All shared how maths is needed in their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Friday saw the culmination of our maths week. The children engaged in a carousel of activities. They used their creativity to design maths promotion resources for the Scottish Maths week competiton; focussing on why we like and need maths in our life.\u00a0 This was expressed through posters, songs, poetry, art and rap by the children.<\/p>\n<p>We were then given the opportunity to apply programming and robotics. The children used Lego WeDo to construct models and then use coding blocks to make the models perform actions.\u00a0 We had tilt aeroplane propellers spinning, footballer\u2019s legs kicking and crazy birds twirling by the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone all loved their shared day with Leswalt &amp; Kircolm on Friday, bringing an end to this important initiative. They enjoyed socialising and working together to produce fantastic maths work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our Trio schools have been having a very busy time participating in the Scottish Maths Week. The Scottish government has launched a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths positively.\u00a0 The aim is\u00a0for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways. The children have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish Maths Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}