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With the launch of the new website I thought it would be nice to share some recent learning by some of my students and celebrate their success. With the coronavirus situation as it is I'm now offering online tuition to anyone who would like it, or needs it due to self-isolation, at a special rate. For the meantime, however, students are still welcome to come to my home - which we're keeping exceptionally clean at all times and will be disinfecting surfaces and resources between every session. I am also able to travel to you if preferred.

Well done to T (Year 2) and his success in exploring money and finding different ways to make totals in our special shopping challenge.
Also, congratulations to J (Year 1) on adding and subtracting single digit numbers from other single digits using a number line to count forwards and backwards.
Great work L (Year 3) on your work measuring and calculating the perimeter of 2D shapes. You worked in both cm and mm and soon learned how to covert between the two by multiplying and dividing by ten.
Excellent progress B (Year 4) on your learning about ratio and proportion. You've made a strong consistent link between this area of study and the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. You've also moved on from calculating x10 as "add a zero" to moving every digit left or right.

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