Gledhow Primary School

Key Information

Battle of the Bands!

Check out your class page for information on upcoming battles of the bands you can take part in whilst you are home learning! 

White Rose Home Learning

At Gledhow, we follow the White Rose Schemes of learning. You can find the termly plans for each year group below. The fantastic team at White Rose Maths have put together a series of videos and worksheets for parents to access at home during school closure.

To access these resources visit - https://www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ 

HOW TO USE THE LESSONS

1. Click on the set of lessons for your child’s year group.

2. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).

3. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.

4. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.

Home learning Maths challenges

Please find some additional maths activities and challenges here that you may wish to try during the school closure. 

At Gledhow we follow the White Rose hub planning. Below are the schemes of learning for each year group so you can see what your child will be doing in class. 

Here is our calculation policy, where you can see the different methods used in each year group for the children to secure the basic 4 operations. 

Our calculation policy uses the Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract approach. In November we held a information evening to explain the approach and show you how we use concrete maths equipment through school. 

Our children have helped to bring the Calculation Policy to life and we hope to create more videos like these to explain the methods that we use in school.  These videos can be used by teachers, parents and children to help consolidate the methods, using concrete, pictorial and abstract strategies.

By Year 4, children should be able to recall their multiplication facts up to 12 x 12. To help them develop these skills, children can log on to www.ttrockstars.com using their username and password. On Times Table Rockstars, pupils can practice their tables. They are then able to improve their Rock Speed and climb the Rockstar ranks! The online games reward children with virtual coins for each correct answer, which they enjoy spending on upgrading their personal rock avatar.

What is Barvember? 

Bar Modelling is a useful tool for helping children visualise and then solve maths problems. Even some of the most complex problems can be seen much easier when represented visually.

Throughout November, we set daily challenges for the children to try.  Each attempt is one entry into a prize draw, where there are KS1 and KS2 prizes up for grabs!

The answers to each problem are displayed on our Barvember board in school the following day.

This year's winners were: 

KS1 - Arthur Miller and Natalia Kuspa

KS2 - Elise Dixon, Evie Cuthbertson, Max Burrows and Adam Ghani