Learning & Teaching

Probability in Year One

Over the past 2 weeks the Year One children have been exploring the concept of probability. They discussed the notion that some things in the world have an element of chance and other things do not. The children were also invited to consider every day events that have an element of chance to them, and use the language of probability to describe the chance of these events occurring.

Here's what Noah had to say about probability:

"We have been learning a lot about chance in maths. We were talking about how some things are 'certain.' Certain is those things you have to do. We also talked about 'likely.' Likely is something that you do sometimes. Unlikely is those things that you sometimes do, but not very much. You do those things less than you do the 'likely' things. Impossible is something that you can't do."

Narrative Writing in Prep

This term our Prep authors have been focusing on writing narratives! After gaining inspiration from all the picture books they had read across the year, the children decided to explore the structure and features of some of their favourite stories. Following this, they developed their own characters and plots and went about the task of writing their own picture books.

"I did the characters first, then the setting, then the problem and then the solution. I planned my story. Then I wrote it. My story was about me and a cat. The problem was my cat went over to my neighbours house. The solution was I had to rescue her." - Isabelle

Data Collection in Year Two

 Last week our year Two mathematicians embarked on a data journey. To kick off the learning experience the children decided to find out a little bit more about their peer's favourite cake flavours. 

Asha described the experience below:

"We had to write a question first so we could ask each other the same question. We wrote the question "what is your favourite flavour of cake?" Next we had to think about the different cake flavours to include in the survey. The main thing I learnt about this was to include the option "other" in case some people didn't like any of the cake flavours on the list. After that we went around and asked people the question. We used a tally to get the data. Red velvet cake and chocolate cake were the most popular flavours. To finish off we made a graph with our data. The main thing I learnt was that you needed to think about spacing and making the different parts even. The graph also shows that ice-cream, ginger and caramel are the least favourite flavours."