Welcome to Exminster Community Primary School

Thank you for your interest in our school. The children, staff, parents and governors have created our Rainbow Values at Exminster Community Primary School.

The EPICentre of Learning.

Enjoyment

We want every child to enjoy coming to school, to feel secure in their friendships and to be happy to learn.

Potential

We aim to help every child reach and exceed their full potential through providing a rich and varied range of learning opportunities within a broad and balanced curriculum. Learning is planned in every class to meet all needs. We aim to find children’s strengths and use these within school to develop children’s confidence and love of learning. ‘Be the best that we can be’.

Inclusion

We pride ourselves in being a highly inclusive school. Inclusion is about adapting for the needs of our learners – however minor or major their needs may be. This has benefits for all learners, learning to celebrate our differences and individuality.

Community

Exminster Community Primary School plays an integral part in life of our village. We maintain a strong family village school ethos. We feel it is essential that children develop an understanding of our school family, our local family, our national family and our international family. Diversity and respect are a golden thread within all that we do.

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Next week we are going to be working on addition using the number line method. We have made a video to model this strategy (see below). Please could the children watch this video to become confident in the method. Watching it more than once will help them prepare for the lesson and allow them to then secure their understanding and apply it in school.

They could then have a go (in their home learning book) at adding together 2 two-digit numbers or if they are feeling more confident, a three-digit to a two-digit or
a three-digit to a three-digit. The numbers could be generated by rolling dice.

 

Stage 3b - Addition

Stage 3c - Addition

Alongside this method, you hope the children begin to see numbers that they can adjust to make the calculation easier. We call these ‘nearly numbers’.

 

You can find all the stages of addition under the tab 'Parents' - 'Maths Zone'- 'Journey through Addition'.