Our first job was to create an event for parents to do with their children in Numeracy Week. It took a lot of planning!
What could we do?
It started with a class discussion. It was decided that some sort of Scavenger Hunt where families could go inside and outside the school would be the best as that would avoid too much congestion inside the school. Finn Finity is Maths Scotland’s mascot this year and we decided he would be the ideal thing for people to look for in the scavenger hunt. We prepared a worksheet that had differentiated questions on it about 10 numbers. These numbers related to the numbers that were shown next to 10 different Finn Finity’s. We had to consider that every child from Primary 1 to Primary 7 were going to be doing this! We wanted everyone to have fun but they also had to be busy!
Raising Awareness
We made pictures of Finn Finity and added them around the school to raise awareness before the event.
Pupils visited each class and explained how the scavenger hunt would work.
Mrs Birrell worked with two pupils to create a digital invitation that would be sent to parents.
After the event
The pupils made each class a certificate to praise them for taking part in the event.
Pupil Voice
“It was good fun thinking of ideas and making certificates.”
“We got to organise and most of the ideas were from us.”
Our second job was to make an activity that could be done by all classes over the week. We created a shape hunt for each class to do As well as looking for the shapes we found we wanted them to find their own shapes. The photos that each class sent were used to make a maths display in the senior wing.
