Inspirational maths and Peter Pan

This week at school we have been focusing on maths and the way we think about maths!  No one is born with a maths brain but we can all train our brains to understand maths and think through problems which will result in our brains growing stronger.  The children enjoyed watching some videos explaining about growth mindset and training the brains and from this they completed different activities to test out the theory.  We used 4 isosceles (not sausage Mrs Smith) triangles, followed some simple rules and made several different shapes from them.  We also looked at patterns of numbers represented using dots.  We circled several different combinations of numbers that we could see within them.  The children really persevered to do this and were excited with their results. 
 
To round of the week we really enjoyed a performance of 'Peter Pan'  with the year 2 and 3 children also.  The actors, scenery, music and songs had the children captivated and buzzing when they came back to class.