Mental Maths Progress

This academic year, children have been working hard to improve their rapid recall of mental maths facts.  Each week, children in Years 2 - 6 complete as much of a times table grid as they possibly can within a 4 minute time period.  Awards are handed out for the following mile-stones:

2x, 5x and 10x tables

50% of the grid

75% of the grid and

100% of the grid

Aaron, in Year 2, has been working incredibly hard to beat his score each week and today achieved an excellent result of 72%!  All children achieving 75% or more are eligible to compete against the staff in a half-termly mental maths challenge!  Not far to go Aaron ...

Great Gaddesden's Got Talent!

Earlier this term, a suggestion was made (via the School Council's suggestion boxes) that we should host a 'Great Gaddesden's Got Talent' competition.  The School Council decided this was a great idea and over the last week auditions have been taking place at lunch-times, with Year 6 pupils as judges.  Auditions included a wide range of acts, including singing, dancing, playing musical instruments and comedy.  Huge congratulations to our seven finalists (Luke, Fallon, Maddie, Olivia, Fenella, Eleanor and Bradley) who performed in front of the whole school this morning and thoroughly impressed us with their talents.  The judges had a very difficult decision to make as the quality of the acts was incredibly high.  After some careful deliberation, they decided that Bradley was victorious with his excellent rendition of a Justin Bieber classic!