🌧️💨 Maths Week Scotland – We’re Off to a Flying Start!
This week at St Joseph’s R.C. Primary we’ve thrown ourselves into Maths Week Scotland – and what a brilliant start we’ve had!
On Monday we set up our very own rain gauge and windsock in the playground. Each day we’ll check the rainfall and wind direction, record our findings and, at the end of the week, turn our data into colourful graphs and charts. 📊🌧️💨
Our STEM Leaders also planned and ran a fantastic outdoor maths session for the whole school:
- Danielle led the traffic survey, where children worked in pairs to tally the colours of cars passing the school. Danielle even designed the recording tables herself on Word – amazing work! 🚗🚙
- Nanci-Rose and Ava G led a fun symmetry challenge, where pairs laid a skipping rope as a “mirror line” and drew shapes in chalk for their partner to copy and match. 🎨✏️
The playground was full of teamwork, thinking and problem-solving as pupils learned that maths is all around us – and it can be active and exciting too. This ties in perfectly with the theme of this year’s Maths Week Scotland – “Maths in Action” – showing our children that maths is not just numbers on a page but a tool we use every day.
We’re looking forward to seeing how our weather data grows through the week and to sharing our graphs and charts soon. Well done to our brilliant STEM Leaders and to every pupil for making our first day of Maths Week Scotland such a success!
🌍 UNCRC Articles
- Article 28 – Right to Education: Children are developing their numeracy and problem-solving skills through real-world outdoor maths.
- Article 29 – Goals of Education: The activities encouraged teamwork, creativity and respect for the environment, building a love of learning maths in action.
🎯 SDG Goals
- SDG 4 – Quality Education: Hands-on maths activities provide inclusive, quality learning opportunities for all pupils.
- SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities: The traffic survey links to real-life data about transport and our community environment.
- SDG 13 – Climate Action: Recording rain and wind raises awareness of weather and the environment.
💚 SHANARRI Indicators
- Active: Pupils were outside moving, observing and creating.
- Responsible: STEM Leaders took responsibility for teaching and guiding younger pupils.
- Achieving: Pupils developed practical maths skills and confidence in applying them.
- Included: Every child took part in the activities at their level.
🧠 Meta-skills (from the 12 SDS meta-skills)
- Focusing: Following instructions and carefully recording data.
- Collaborating: Working with partners to complete symmetry tasks and surveys.
- Critical Thinking: Interpreting weather changes and car data to plan graphs.
- Leading: STEM Leaders directing activities and modelling good practice.
- Creativity: Turning ropes, chalk and playground space into mathematical challenges.
✝️ Strands of Faith
- Reign of God: Pupils showed care for each other and their environment, learning and playing respectfully as a community.
- Signs of God: Recognising patterns, order and symmetry in the natural world connects to seeing beauty and meaning in creation.
