Eyke Primary School

Maths in the World of Work: Baker

Ash and Cedar Class (Reception-Year 2)

What a day of in the life of as baker! We worked hard to make no-bake granola and made links between maths and this career. The Year 2 children helped the younger children to follow and read the list of ingredients and the method to make no-bake granola. We learnt to use a range of scales to carefully count and weight out the correct ingredients. The younger children also carefully counted handfuls of chocolate chips to go on top of their granola. We also needed overcome certain issues, like accidentally adding too much of an ingredient. We worked well as a team to enjoyed the finished product!

Willow Class (Year 3 and 4)

We discussed real life jobs that require maths. We then did a role on the wall for the job of a baker. The children then calculated the cost of different cakes and showed their partner using ‘real’ money.

Elm Class ( Year 5 and 6)

In Elm class, Year 5 and 6 spent the week learning about some of the mathematical skills required to work in a bakery. The children began the week by converting units of measure. This included converting between grams and kilograms and litres and millilitres as well as converting between metric and imperial units of measure. They then went on to explore ratio and proportion, finding out how much of each ingredient they would need when multiplying the recipe. Finally, they got to put all this into practice by making their own cupcakes, with the recipe they had calculated during the week; also providing them with a further opportunity for accurate measuring. 

24th January 2025

Mistakes help me learn

Ash - Ethan

Cedar - Amelie

Willow - Anais

Elm - Ryan

Today Elm Class have been using microscopes lent by The Royal Microscopic Society. After learning how a microscope works and learning how to use them the microscopes were then put to good use in an art lesson. 

What a wonderful morning for Ash class! Bringing history to life through examining various artefacts and sorting soil to see what we could find. Ash class were very inquisitive and asked lots of amazing questions to further improve their knowledge of our local area. 

We love welcoming 'Make the Classroom Disappear' into school. Cedar Class too part in a 'Great Fire if London' day. They loved it! It is lovely that we can bring their learning to life ensuring they can now make meaningful links to the past . 

KS2 enjoying the new Archery Club ran by Premier Sport.

10th January 2025

I can always improve

Ash - Fiona

Cedar - Arthur SM

Willow - Noah A

Elm - Max R

Today a new history club commenced. Some of our KS2 children have decided to run their own history club at break time. This shows so much initiative and it makes us so proud that their love of history is shining through. 

It was brilliant to see so many parents at the Reading Workshop this morning - a fantastic turn out to learn about our Fluency reading scheme that runs through from Year 2 and into KS2.

Follow the link to see the presentation https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/eyke-cevc-primary-school/UploadedDocument/eed5ce4f-93dc-4878-84c0-116c25c86ebd/fluency-reading-workshop-2025.pdf