Maths this week in MSR

This week MSR has been looking at multiplication and division. 

Students have been enjoying playing division and multiplication relays, with congratulations going to Cassandra who was our winner on both Tuesday and Wednesday. 

A reminder to all students in MSR is to keep practising your times tables each night.

Here's a brain teaser for both parents and students:

If you were to construct a 8 x 8 checkered square (i.e., a 8 x 8 chess board), how many squares would there be in total?

Our New Mascot

A few weeks ago MSR got a new mascot (after Sparkles unfortunately passed away :( ).  Our new mascot is Glitter and she's a beautiful blue budgerigar.

Briony, (Glitter's owner), wrote out this procedure to follow to clean Glitter's cage:

Cleaning Glitter's Tray

Things you need:

• Food
• Tap/water
• Bin
• Paper

Steps:

1. Get out the seed bowl and the water.


2. Empty out the old water into the sink or outside and the seed into the bin.


3. Pull the tray out of the cage.


4. Go and put the piece of paper from the bottom of the cage in the bin.


5. Go and clean the tray.


6. Place a fresh piece of paper in the tray.


7. Unclick the cage.


8. Place the cage on the tray.


9. Take all the toys out and wash them.


10. Fill up the water.


11. Fill up the food.


12. Clip the cage back up.


13. Put the toys water and food all back in the cage.


14. Wash your hands.


15. You have completed washing the cage.