This week's Primary parent academy was aimed at parents of children in years 1 and 2. During the session, parents were introduced the Year 1 and Year 2 primary maths hub websites, something that was rolled out successfully in Years 3-6 last academic year.
During the session, we shared what we are doing to help parents to better understand our maths curriculum. We discussed the importance of language, as part of reasoning and problem solving, to help children improve maths mastery. Picture widgits in various languages help to support maths vocabulary the children may not know. In addition, using maths sentence stems can help students to explore maths concepts further.
We modelled the types of questions that children are engaging with in class to help them achieve maths mastery. When using White Rose Maths, in years 1 and 2, we are also making sure children are exposed to looking at problems using concrete resources as well as pictorially, using varied models. We discussed how oftentimes children are moved on too quickly to the abstract, written form of problems and children miss out opportunities to fully understand the mathematical concept. This can mean that at times they learn a method without understanding why the method works.
Resources shared during the parent academy, including the slides themselves, can be found on the maths hub websites. The link for this can be found on the parent portal on Firefly and is also shared on the year group weekly learning newsletters.
Andrea O'Keeffe
Year 6 Teacher/Maths Coordinator
After learning about Attila József for a few lessons, our Hungarian teacher led us on a Year arrival, we stepped into a truly delightful inner garden, adorned with exquisite flowers.
Year 9 Service Learning project, under the name of Wellbeing Fair, was a huge success! Everyone in our year group has been preparing for months to be able to deliver such a result. The collaboration work was well spread out, with people from Sapphire writing some positive notes, taking smiling photos and organising a fitness challenge. Jade was hard at work making sure that everything goes well at their bake sale, and their football event. Ruby created a quiz, had a juice bar, and organised a penalty shootout.
The BISB WOLVES Secondary Girls' and Boys' Volleyball teams have wrapped up a short but action-packed season, demonstrating remarkable growth, resilience, and sportsmanship in both the Danube Valley Athletic Conference (DVAC) festivals, tournaments and the BISL Budapest Cup.
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