Getting to Grips with Geometry: Year 5 Explore 3D Shapes!
Our mathematicians have been busy transitioning from flat planes to the third dimension! After mastering the worlds of angles and polygons, we’ve levelled up our Shape unit by investigating 3D solids.

This wasn’t just a lesson from a textbook; it was a full "hands-on" investigation. We filled the classroom with physical shapes, allowing the children to handle, rotate, and examine them from every angle.

What we’ve been investigating:

Naming Names: We’ve been identifying everything from cubes and cuboids to various pyramids and prisms.

The Big Three: Using our tactile models, we’ve been counting and recording the faces, edges, and vertices of each shape.

Real-World Connections: Learning how these geometric properties help us understand the world around us.

It was brilliant to see the children’s 'aha!' moments as they felt the sharp vertices of a pyramid or traced the long edges of a prism.

The level of focus was fantastic—it’s safe to say our students are shaping up to be excellent geometricians!