Maple Class News

We have been creating Roman Buildings from paper and card – learning how to create different joins as well as the names of the different parts of the buildings. We learnt that the triangular part above the columns is called … Read More

We have been learning to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.  As part of this work we created a giant number line and placed our numbers on this.  Then we looked at whether the multiple of 10 … Read More

As part of our Invaders and Settlers topic we have been finding out about mosaics.  We have looked at the different designs that they used and how many indivual tessera were used to create these – we all thought they … Read More

As part of our work on place value we have been learning about decimals and understanding the place value of the different digits in them as well as how we can express them as fractions.

We have been learning about place value, practising reading and writing the numbers using manipulatives to support our understanding of these large numbers.

As part of our topic of Invaders and Settlers we have been learning about the different ruling systems used by the Romans.  We learnt about Rulers such as Kings and Emperors and thought about the advantages and disadvantages of these … Read More

In Maple class we have been investigating the shapes of columns used in Roman buildings.  Initially we wondered if cylindrical columns would be the strongest as that it what the Roman used, however we decided that we should test and … Read More