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The Regents Review
Winter 2015
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Departmental News
Key Stage 3 Maths Clinic
A new Key Stage 3 Maths Clinic has opened on
Wednesdays from 2.45 pm in Room 34. This is an
opportunity for your child to ‘drop in’ for maths advice
on topics where they would like a little extra help or to
ask questions about their homework.
Year 11 Mathematics Revision
Breakfast Club
From 7.45am on
Thursdays you could
smell hot chocolate and
hear the sound of ‘Maths
Talk’ in the lower corridor
of South Block! We ran
a successful 8-week
revision programme for
Year 11 to support them in their preparation for their
first mock examination – which took place in October
– and whole school mock examinations in December.
All participants showed an improvement in their
October mock examination results compared to the
June examination. We will resume this programme in
the Spring term when the mornings are lighter; new
members welcome!
Welcome Year 7s
The Mathematics Department would like to welcome
our Year 7s to the school. They have been working hard,
carrying out data handling tasks where they have drawn
and interpreted graphs and found averages and range. They
are now well underway extending their numeracy skills
and recording their progress on their numeracy passport.
This is a chance for them to learn and consolidate their
multiplication tables in a fun way whilst earning VIVO points
when they complete each level. Multiplication tables are
useful throughout many areas in Mathematics and so we
would ask that you encourage them each step of the way in
learning their tables from 1 to 12.
‘We use our passports to the world; this keeps track of
which times tables we learn and use. When you complete
these you move on to square numbers and square roots.
When you complete each country you move on to the
next. After completing each section you will also receive
VIVO points. Personally I think that times tables are very
useful because you can use them in all different types of
Mathematics such as long multiplication, division and later,
area and volume.’
By Hannah McArthur, Branson TC