As part of the specialist status, the Maths department ran an evening for parents of students in Year 7 on Thursday 29th January. The main idea was to support parents in realising how the teaching of Maths has changed over the years and how they can support their children in lieu of this. The session introduced parents to what a Maths lesson today encompasses and brought to light the interactive element offered particularly with the use of interactive whiteboards. Participants found the session informative and even got a chance to use the latest technology which is being provided for by the specialist status – a set of voting pods for each member of the class – Imagine ‘audience vote’ in Who wants to be a millionaire!In the picture above parents participate in a lesson starter using interactive dice. The objective was to get a sum nearest to a thousand using randomly generated numbers. Some started to realise what the best strategy for winning the game would be!
Similar sessions will take place later during the year. Students felt it was excellent that their parents were set online homework set on http://www.mymaths.co.uk/. Do you use this website? It has interactive Maths lessons for Key stage 3 and 4 on almost every topic. The login is ‘hayes’ and the password is ‘enlarge’. Try it. It’s fun!
Similar sessions will take place later during the year. Students felt it was excellent that their parents were set online homework set on http://www.mymaths.co.uk/. Do you use this website? It has interactive Maths lessons for Key stage 3 and 4 on almost every topic. The login is ‘hayes’ and the password is ‘enlarge’. Try it. It’s fun!
Mr Solomon, Deputy Head of Maths
Many thanks to Mr Solomon and the Maths department for running this event.
Mr Osborne, Headteacher
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