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When Year 5 Taught Reception!

The children in Year 5 showed their maturity and Math skilled on Thursday afternoon as they supported their friends in the Reception class. They had a challenge of completing a subtraction and addition worksheets in teams of 4 and 2 . The children in Reception have been looking at the symbols of addition and subtraction to ensure they are completing the right actions when working out a sum. The older children were not allowed to tell the reception children the answer or write the answer, they had to model the method using counting bears or dinosaurs.

It was amazing to see such beautiful team work as they Year 5 teachers supported their Reception friends, they stayed focused and on task through out the whole session with many children asking for more work! The children in reception walked away feel very confident after their interactions, with many older children complimenting them on their work and how the persevered through out the tricky math challenges.