St Josephs Primary School, Slate Street, Belfast

Sports Day; P1-P4 Thursday 23rd May, P5-P7 Friday 24th May. 9.15-12noon. Wear PE gear to school. Parents welcome to meet us at Grosvenor pitch opposite school. | PE for this term: Monday Miss Kelly P4. Tuesday both P3 classes, P4 Mr Perry & P2 Mrs McComish/Lynch. Wednesday P2 Mrs Glackin. Thursday both P1s, P5s, P6s & P7s. Swimming - Tuesday Miss Halfpenny, Wednesday Mr Manning. | Be in your line for quarter to 9! Punctuality limits disruption to teaching 😊

Maths Mastery: Pattern Awareness

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30th Sep 2020

P1 Maths Mastery: extending patterns.
Why do we teach children pattern awareness? Recent research has found that young children’s ability to spot mathematical patterns can predict later mathematical achievement, more than other abilities such as counting (Rittle-Johnson et al, 2016). Explicitly teaching pattern awareness helps children to develop mathematical understanding and thinking!