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08/03/24

choir representing at a national choral competition last weekend - WOW 🔥🙌🏾👏🏼🫶🏿⚡️! Three part harmony, syncopated body percussion and in Portuguese 🇵🇹. We are so proud of how hard you worked and can’t wait to hear what you do next! pic.twitter.com/6FXMoePk7D

08/03/24

choir representing at a national choral competition last weekend - WOW 🔥🙌🏾👏🏼🫶🏿⚡️! Three part harmony, syncopated body percussion and in Portuguese 🇵🇹. We are so proud of how hard you worked and can’t wait to hear what you do next! pic.twitter.com/6FXMoePk7D

08/03/24

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08/03/24

A fantastic International Women’s Day at Chobham today! Celebrating all women and helping to 💜💜 pic.twitter.com/8dffQkuDVd

04/03/24

Our penultimate choir is from the Olympic Park in London: Harris Academy Chobham Junior Choir. Great percussion accompaniment! pic.twitter.com/tBKi9iedjL

03/03/24

We are sooooo proud of our choir who are competing on Manchester today! We send all the luck and positivity! https://t.co/v0ZDGUNhkC

03/03/24

Our penultimate choir is from the Olympic Park in London: Harris Academy Chobham Junior Choir. Great percussion accompaniment! pic.twitter.com/tBKi9iedjL

29/02/24

Year 2’s first ever visit to the primary school library for their first Accelerated Reader session! These readers are super excited to get their hands on the big books! pic.twitter.com/nY65QV5uaG

29/02/24

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29/02/24

Our YUCAN group were lucky enough to go to Shrek’s Adventure and then for a trip on the London Eye this week! So much fun for these amazing pupils! pic.twitter.com/wxQYqDyqfZ

29/02/24

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29/02/24

Year 4 were happy historians at The British Museum last week learning all about things from the past. pic.twitter.com/SFC2KNy8zu

29/02/24

Get along to Chess Club on Thursdays at the Lighthouse and Gardens! With an amazing teacher every week for only £6 per child! pic.twitter.com/mqFwkiRE3A

28/02/24

Important team talks and tactics before the boys and girls’ football matches today! Well done to our boys for winning and reaching the final!! pic.twitter.com/BhrFZiFvIP

15/02/24

Please sign up to support us on to increase our chances of winning a massive £1,000 donation! Every new person who joins counts as an extra entry - but hurry, you've only got until the end of the week. It's completely free to help: https://t.co/51mhDqf8Zc

15/02/24

Thank you to all the amazing stalls who came and participated in our Cultural Celebration Day last week! It was an amazing event with such a range of things on offer from many different cultures! 🥳🥳🥳#culturalcelebration pic.twitter.com/nU1YOtIh18

15/02/24

A huge thank you to ! The girls absolutely love their new kits from their sponsor! It really is amazing to see them wearing them with pride! 🤩🤩 https://t.co/x0ukWvZgrX

22/12/23

Thank you to everyone who donated to our fundraiser! Our Christmas Elves (the amazing year 10 prefects) packed 20 bags of gifts for the children staying there over Christmas and a little something for the staff too 🎁 🌲 pic.twitter.com/Vs94QEtVtZ

22/12/23

Thank you to everyone who donated to our fundraiser! Our Christmas Elves (the amazing year 10 prefects) packed 20 bags of gifts for the children staying there over Christmas and a little something for the staff too 🎁 🌲 pic.twitter.com/Vs94QEtVtZ

07/12/23

How are funds making a difference?At , they invested in music. They introduced 180 students to the joys of playing the recorder or violin, purchased instruments and music recording equipment, improving their provision one note at a time✨🎶🎻 pic.twitter.com/vvQeP3sioM

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    Posted on May 13th 2020

    Independent Learning in Maths

    Celebrating Independent Learners in Maths

    “Being able to think and act independently remains one of the most important skills that a student can learn. We live in a culture that is rooted in individualism − where independence is central to our ethical and social world view. Failure to prepare learners for the demands of a world where teachers will not be available to provide all the answers is to do them a great disservice.”

     Mike Gershon

    The Mathematics department at Chobham has been actively focussed on teaching learners to learn because we believe that it is a tremendously valuable skill. Our aim is to help learners to take more responsibility for their learning which inevitably transforms the teacher’s role into a leader rather than the controller of how they learn. During the current coronavirus lockdown, a unique opportunity has been provided for us, together with the invaluable help of parents and carers, to further encourage and guide our learners into becoming Independent Learners.

    After careful planning and much consideration, we decided to set our learners achievable and differentiated tasks on familiar, award-winning Mathematics platforms such as hegartymaths,  mathskitchen, MyMaths and corbettmaths. The platforms provided learners the opportunity to decide when and what to study within the guidance of our provided timetable; find and collect information from watching video lessons: review their prior learning as well as organise their thoughts through making notes as shown in the images below of notes made by Beatrice – Year 7, Aliza - Year 7 and Haroon - Year 10.

    The learners gained instant feedback after completing each task and as a result of that, some emerging Independent Learners have taken it upon themselves to investigate online, pursue further explanations from their class teacher and redo the tasks several times until they achieve 100%.

    “I refuse to accept anything other than 100% in all my tasks” - Qasim, Year 10.

    We have also noticed an increase in the number of learners proactively asking for and even independently finding extension tasks which have been completed to a very high standard.

    “Hello Miss Hagglund, what other topics should we cover if we need to do more work? I have been using the rota/plan for maths learning that you uploaded here to continue studying maths as normal alongside the hegarty maths, however some of the topics we have not gone through. Should I still learn them and continue, or is it better to revise other topics that have been covered?”  Simona - Year 10

    We celebrate the emerging Independent Learners especially because Creative Education highlights that they gain key skills both during and beyond their education such as the ability to:

    • Gain and deploy information
    • Use different media to communicate effectively
    • Organise themselves
    • Solve problems and
    • Relate to others

    Therefore, the Mathematics department is hopeful that after the temporary coronavirus lockdown storm, the key skills gained during this time will be the rainbow waiting on the other side.