Good afternoon

After reviewing the X25 extended study and classwork from last week (in particular the work on area) I have noticed that there are a significant number of students in year 7 that have gaps in their knowledge around important KS2 concepts which help with being able to work with area. Specific gaps I have noticed are around recall of and the use of square and cube numbers and so students have been struggling with square and cube roots.

As such I will spend some time with the students working on those concepts this week, and I have extended the deadline for last week’s HegartyMaths work from last week until Monday 11th February.

I have also set some additional HegartyMaths exercises:

Exercise 99, 100 and 101 – Square numbers, Cube numbers and Square and cube roots

These are also due on Monday 11th February.

Finally, this week in TTrockstars, I want students to earn 8000 points in the garage. This is due on Friday evening at 8pm, 8th February.

It would be really helpful this week if you could ask your son or daughter to practise recalling up to the first 12 square numbers at home.

These are:

1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144

Thanks for your continued support.

There are two parts to this week’s Hegarty Maths for Year 7 students.

The deadline is Tuesday when we come back after the long weekend.

PART 1 – AREA (3 quizzes)
Exercises 553-555 are practice questions on area, our new topic of study for the learning target. “I can find the area of compound shapes”

PART 2 – PERIMETER RECAP
I have re-set some work on perimeter for those students that need to improve on those quizzes.

Students must do these quizzes, even when they have already attempted them before.

For those students that have quizzes on perimeter, (exercises 548-551), they need to:
– watch the associated video in full at least once
– make notes on the video

Students can either photograph and send their notes to me, or bring their notes into school.

If needed I can provide students with a notebook, please get your son or daughter to ask me if they need one.

Thanks

This week in the garage, Year 7 students need to earn 4000 points. The deadline for completion is 8pm on Friday 1st February.

All X25 students have been given a personalised set of exercises to complete this week. We have an assessment next week on perimeter so there is some consolidation and stretch work on perimeter, and some work on directed numbers as a refresher from the studies we did during immersion.

All of these exercises are due next week on Wednesday 30th Jan.

My advice to the students is to do their Perimeter work first as they will be assessed on that next week.

Now that students are on automatic training, Year 7 students now need to earn 2000 points in the garage this week. This is due on Friday 25th Jan at 8pm.

All students have been set some exercises in Hegarty Maths on perimeter. These are due to be completed by next Tuesday 22nd Jan.

In addition, as usual, students need to earn 1000 points this week on ttrockstars. This will be checked on Friday evening at 8pm (18th Jan)