We began by playing a directions game – children were in pairs and one was blindfolded. The non-blindfolded person had to give the blindfolded person directions to find some ‘treasure’. We used clockwise/anticlockwise and angles. The activity worked well and was very entertaining to watch!

In trios the children made pictures using sticks- minimum of 8. We then discussed scale and I asked them to  use their estimation skills to create a scaled version of their picture – half the size. The next challenge was to make a picture either a quarter or double the original size – each group ended up with a set of three pictures. Lastly we used rulers ( wooden ones with no  mm on) to draw a scale picture of one of the pictures on the ground. The children measured the original picture then drew one half the size- they had to decide which of their three pictures to use. I was very pleased with all of the activities and everyone understood what to do. One group had more of a challenge because their  picture was huge so they had to decide on a different scale – they quartered the original measurements. Interestingly the  activity showed that some children don’t know how to halve odd numbers so I shall tackle that in class very soon! If I was to do this again I might create a huge picture and we could explore the idea of  a  1:10 scale.