We just wanted to say a huge congratulations to Brooke in Year 2, who achieved a top twenty spot in the city wide Times Tables Rock Stars Competition. She has received a trophy and an Amazon voucher. She is very excited to treat herself! Well done.
Category Archives: Maths
Year 2 Times Tables Rock Stars Competition – The Results…
Well…the scores are in for the Year 2 City wide Rock off! We are extremely pleased to tell you that our Year 2s finished in third place! As you aware, the children battled against 50 other classes from across Stoke on Trent and to be the third best school is just incredible. The staff are […]
TT Rock Stars Day in Year Two
Year Two look fabulous today! They’ve come dressed as rock stars ready to take on the challenge of becoming the best year two class in Stoke-on-Trent with their times tables. The competition started yesterday and runs until Friday. So far, Hillside are second on the schools leaderboard and year two are third on the classes […]
Number Day in Year Five
Year Five have thoroughly enjoyed number day. This morning, we had our number scavenger hunt where we were set the challenge of using the numbers we had come to school in. We found prime numbers, square numbers and used the numbers to answer a series of tricky questions. Throughout the day, we have also been […]
Number Day in Year Two
Year Two have enjoyed a wonderful Number Day today. They started the day playing maths games with their friends. Afterwards, the children linked their history work based on Christopher Columbus by using directional language to plot Columbus’ journey to The Americas on a map. This afternoon, the children took part in a number hunt before […]
Number Day – Maths in Science – Year Six
It was great to see so many different numbers in Year Six today. We started the day completing a fractions focused, Bletchley Park style code breaking activity. Children had to break the code in order to read the message but they had to answer some tricky maths problems first. We then gave the children 50 […]
Number Day in Year Four
Year Four have been extremely busy today, using maths in every lesson and activity that they have been involved in. We started the day with an assembly from Mrs Wainwright, followed by a TTRS challenge. We then worked in teams to complete an escape room challenge to escape from an Egyptian pyramid before using maths […]
Number Day in Year Three!
Year Three have had so much fun during Number Day. They have been working as teams to go on a number scavenger hunt and to solve the mystery of the missing glue sticks. They have learned about how numbers were recorded in the Stone Age and have taken on the role of travel agents to […]
Number Day in Year One
Year One have had a brilliant number day looking at mathematics skills throughout the day! We enjoyed playing a guessing game using super vocab then we completed a shape and number challenge – we can’t wait to see who wins! We linked our maths to careers and our History learning, working out how maths is […]
Number Day in Reception
Reception have had so much fun today practising their numbers. Here on the photo, they are showing you how to make numbers to 10. They have also practised their number skills using the NumBots game and been on a number hunt. They have completed number jigsaws and sang number songs. At the end of the […]