We love celebrating Maths at Chesswood — both from a high achievement perspective and a love and awareness of the subject in our every day lives.  On this page you will find information about whole school celebrations and photos & videos about what's going well in Maths currently.

NATIONAL NUMERACY DAY - MAY 17TH 2023

Click here to view our dedicated National Numeracy celebration page.

Maths fever struck Chesswood last week as we celebrated National Numeracy Day as a community.  It was so pleasing to see so many children finding unique ways to dress as a number – here is a selection of some of the fantastic ways children dressed as a number:

In addition to this, Sam in 4LB baked this brilliant (and very tasty) chocolate brownie calculator!  Amazing effort Sam!

 

Every class in the school participated in year group TT Rock Stars Battle of the Bands competitions.  As a school, children answered over 600,000 questions on TT Rock Stars from Monday to Friday!  A staggering achievement!  The winning classes in each year group were 3PB, 4MP, 5JS and 6AH – congratulations to these classes.  The top scoring children from each class were:

3HC – Elliot, 3PB – Diya, 3DH – Tristan, 3HC – Julianna

4MP – Yahia, 4EV – Heilyn, 4LB – Joshua, 4CR – Rocco, 4LH – Maja

5JS – Ming-Kai, 5CL – Leon, 5ML – Alvin, 5HM – Toby M, 5AL – Hridishtitha

6NB – Youssef, 6AH – William, 6SJ – Eilin, 6NB – Haneen, 6NS – Danny, 6PO – Samuel, 6RW - Lois

 

PRIMARY MATHS CHALLENGE - NOVEMBER 2022

Congratulations to the 39 Bright Sparks from Years 5 and 6 who participated in this year's Primary Maths Challenge in November.  Children were selected based on their amazing test performance in the summer term of the previous school year.  During the challenge, they needed to complete 25 increasingly challenging Maths problems.  All of the children showed a tremendous attitude and put in a super effort which resulted in some very high scores!  Children in Year 6 have been awarded their certificates, whilst children in Year 5 will receive their certificates in assembly this week.  Children have been awarded either a bronze, silver or gold award certificate depending on how high their score was.  An extra special congratulations to our gold award winners - Ming-Kai from 5JS, Jithaesh from 5JS, Jakub from 6RW, Alana from 6SJ, Benjamin from 6NB and Ava from 6NB. 

AWARD WINNERS

Bronze Award	Silver Award	Gold Award
Amaya 5ML, Anoushka 5ML, Archie 6NS, Donavon 5AL, Dudley 6RW, Finley 5JS, Finn 6RW, Freya 6PO, Jacob 6PO, Jake 6RW, Joel 5JS, Lukas 5ML, Efe 6PO, Muhammed 5JS, Rehan 6NS, Riley 6RW, Sammi 5JS, Sammy 6PO, Thedini 5AL, Toby 5ML, Zoe 5AL	Alfie 6NB, Arjun 5AL, Buddy 5JS Jason 6RW, Leon 5CL, Louis 6SJ Lydia 5AL, Max 6PO, Samuel 6PO Skye 6NS, Wariyaporn 6NS	Alana 6SJ Ava 6NB Benjamin 6NB Jakub 6RW Jithaesh 5JS Ming-Kai 5JS

MATHS WEEK ENGLAND 2022 —

ENGLAND ROCKS ON TT ROCK STARS 2022

Results

TT Rock Stars fever hit Chesswood this week as part of the national England Rocks competition, to help celebrate Maths Week.  Over 400 children from all year groups participated and achieved some very impressive results!

We are delighted to confirm that Chesswood finished with the 2^nd highest total score of all competing nearby primary schools.  When all competing schools are factored in, Chesswood still secured a very impressive 15^th out of 3,869 schools – comfortably in the top 1%!

WHOLE SCHOOL RESULTS

Category	Ranking	%
All schools (3,869) Average Correct	227	6%
All schools (3,869) Total Correct	15	1%
Nearby Schools (549) Average Correct	32	6%
Nearby Schools (549) Total Correct	4	1%
Primary Schools (3,577) Average Correct	205	6%
Primary Schools (3,577) Total Correct	10	1%
Nearby Primary (502) Average Correct	29	6%
Nearby Primary (502) Total Correct	2	1%

Year Group Winners

Year Group	Class
3	1) 3HC 2) 3PB 3) 3DH 4) 3CH
4	1) 4MP 2) 4EV 3) 4CR 4) 4LB 5) 4LH
5	1) 5JS 2) 5ML 3) 5CL 4) 5HM 5) 5AL
6	1) 6NB 2) 6AH 3) 6PO 4) 6RW 5) 6NS 6) 6SJ

Individual winners

Whole School

1) Piyaja 5ML

2) Toby M 5HM

3) Frankie 4EV

Year 3

Class	Top 3
3CH	1) Anshul 2) Alex R 3) Alex P
3DH	1) Seren 2) Gabriel 3) Oscar
3HC	1) Elliot 2) Eva 3) Zach
3PB	1) Diya (Year Group Highest) 2) Micah 3) Jasper

Year 4

Class	Top 3
4CR	1) Rocco 2) Elsa 3) Sila
4EV	1) Frankie (Year Group Highest) 2) Zander 3) Callum
4LB	1) Joshua 2) Patrick 3) Charlie
4LH	1) Lailah 2) Sophie 3) Poppy
4MP	1) Yahia 2) Alfie 3) Dieter

Year 5

Class	Top 3
5AL	1) Zoe 2) Lydia 3) Mason
5CL	1) Leon 2) Rachel 3) George
5HM	1) Toby M 2) Vincent 3) Laura
5JS	1) Ming-Kai 2) Buddy 3) Scarlett
5ML	1) Piyaja (Year Group Highest) 2) Pabaji 3) Alvin

Year 6

Class	Top 3
6AH	1) William 2) Lacey 3) Taylor
6NB	1) Ryan (Year Group Highest) 2) Haneen 3) Youssef
6NS	1) Danny 2) Luna 3) Laurentiu
6PO	1) Jacob 2) Efe 3) Max
6RW	1) Poppy 2) Jasmine 3) Mahera
6SJ	1) Lucy 2) Ethan

 

 

GUIDANCE

For Maths Week England we want to make maths exciting and high profile in our school. We will be taking part in a friendly competition involving schools from England from Monday 14th November to Wednesday 16th November. It’s all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

For every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, your child will earn their class a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below)). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average. 

All game modes (Gig, Garage, Studio, etc.) will count but only from games played between 7:30AM GMT and 7:30PM GMT on Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th November. To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60 minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60 minutes between 7.30am and 7.30pm. Once the player goes beyond 60 minutes of play on a given day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans. We suggest a limit of half an hour a day outside school hours – some will play more, some will play less.

We will be recognising the top scoring child in each class with a £5 Amazon Gift Voucher - whilst the highest scoring child in each year group will win an additional £5 voucher.

TT Rock Stars is a fun way for children to learn and become more confident with multiplication and division facts.  If you have any doubt about which of the games on TT would be best for your child to use during the competition, please check the weekly year group Maths Fluency homework first.  If you are still unsure, we would recommend the following, but please do speak with your child's teacher if you want any further clarification:

Year 3 - Garage or Jamming

Year 4 - Garage, Studio or Soundcheck

Years 5 and 6 - Garage, Studio, Festival, Arena or Rockslam.

For more details on each game mode, please click on the image below.