Welcome to our website
Please find attached activities for our next mental agility skill
NUMBER
suggested challenges for Primary 1:
suggested challenges for Primary 2 – Primary 4:
suggested challenges for Primary 5 – Primary 7:
Please remember to choose 1 chilli challenge per week, complete it at home and return it to school!
for your support in boosting children’s confidence with numeracy.
🙂 Please feel free to contact MsBrunner anytime if you have any questions or concerns. 🙂
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely holiday and are feeling motivated for the new term! 🙂
We will begin this term with the red level of Mental Agility and
Please find attached activities we will be covering in class!
As always this will also be our Numeracy homework!
Thank you for all your support at home!
PRIMARY 1:
PRIMARY 2,3 and 4:
PRIMARY 5, 6 and 7:
One of the most important skills in numeracy is to be able to count forward and backward.
It is vital to not always start at 1:
Lots of games, taking turns counting or passing an object can make it fun and part of your daily routine!
Catchy songs can help fluency too:
Times tables practice is also crucial:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/arithmetic/latest/arithmetic_en.html
BITESIZE is an excellent website to help understanding and test your knowledge:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcfrcmn#znncg7h
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zgn7wnb#zkjb8p3
Please remember to see MsBrunner anytime if you have any questions or would like further support!
for photos from the classroom soon! 🙂
The last 5 weeks we have been focusing on
Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratio and Proportion:
Please take a look at some of our fabulous learning:
EARLY LEVEL:
Primary 1
are working on a group of 10 and some extra ones…
PRIMARY 2-4
Some of our learners really enjoyed this helpful song:
lots of new vocabulary about
EQUAL GROUPS
and EQUAL SHARES
PRIMARY 5-7
The Cuisenaire rods have been very helpful in making equal groups and demonstrating multiplication:
Lots of times tables practice with board games and online games have helped fluency!
The grid method helped with 2digit x 1 digit
as well as 2digit x 2 digit multipluication
We hope you enjoyed practising at home too and appreciate all your support with the chilli HOMEWORK challenges
Please check out our next update on the red rainbow colour and
counting forwards and backwards! 🙂
It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:
Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and
MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:
Please find attached activities we focus on in school.
Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:
Practising the connection between multiplication and division:
We are working hard on applying our learning by using word problems including multiplications and division:
Lots of practise to understand the link between fractions, decimals and percentages:
Many opportunities to use concrete resources when focusing on ratio and proportion:
Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on
A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!
We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!
We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!
If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.
Always happy to help! 🙂
It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:
Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and
MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:
Please find attached activities we focus on in school.
Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:
Here are some ideas of how to practise at home:
Making EQUAL GROUPS:
Examples of EQUAL SHARES:
Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on
A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!
We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!
We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!
If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.
Always happy to help! 🙂
Royal Mile Primary School 