Maths
This half-term, pupils will continue to develop their understanding of number through a range of practical and engaging activities. They will build on their subitising skills for numbers within and beyond 5, increasingly connecting quantities to numerals with confidence. Children will explore the composition of numbers to 5, including identifying missing parts, and will investigate the structure of 6 and 7 as ‘5 and a bit’, linking this to finger patterns and the Hungarian number frame. They will compare quantities, identifying when groups are equal or unequal, and learn that two equal groups can be described as a ‘double’, again making links to practical representations such as finger patterns. Pupils will also sort odd and even numbers according to their visual ‘shape’, continue to strengthen their understanding of the counting sequence, and make connections between cardinality and ordinality through the ‘staircase’ pattern. Opportunities to order numbers, play track games, and join in with verbal counting beyond 20 will further develop fluency and help children recognise the repeating patterns within our number system.