As we very quickly approach Christmas, it's not just the festive spirit our pupils are getting into...it's that time again to be in the rock star spirit for the next TTRS battle.
 

Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) continues to be the greatest phenomenon of learning times tables at Fielding as it is fun and challenging for all of our pupils. Through its carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice, it ensures no child is left behind in practice and for those that are confident, over-practice is ensured to increase higher levels of automaticity.

Pupils are excited, enthusiastic, motivated and highly competitive to battle one another, play different modes and earn 'coins' to tweak their personalised rock star avatars. This in addition to the rigorous teaching of times tables in-class has already shown a progression in pupils' recall and fluency of multiplication/division facts.

What is a Battle of the Bands? 

A Battle of the Bands is a fun way to get groups of pupils competing against each other and a great way to sustain pupils' enthusiasm in practicing times tables on TTRS. This battle will be between all classes in Years 3, 4 and all classes in Years 5 and 6. 

 

When will it begin/end?

The Fielding Battle of the Bands will being on Friday 16th December from 4pm and will end on Tuesday 3rd January at 8pm. Two battles will take place during these dates and times:

• Lower KS2 (Years 3 & 4) 
• Upper KS2 (Years 5 & 6)

 

How to play:

Pupils can login via their personalised username and passwords. If they are unsure of this, they can check with their class teacher. 

Click here to access the site.

 

How to earn points: 

Every correct answer in any game type is worth 1 point towards the class team. Pupils can play in Garage, Rock Slam, Soundcheck, etc and earn 1 point per correct answer. 

 

Pupils should not confuse Battle points with coins! Coins are separate. They will still earn 10 coins per correct answer in the Garage, 5 per correct Soundcheck and 1 coin per correct answer everywhere else. 

Prizes

The winning class will be announced on Wednesday 3rd January and will win: 

• The TTRS Trophy to keep until the end of term
• An inflatable guitar to keep until the of term 
• TTRS Certificate
   

From the winning class, the pupil who scores the most points for their class team will win: 

• TTRS Keyring
• TTRS Pencil 
• TTRS Certificate 

 

TTRS promotes the "little and often" technique which is why pupils only need to play between 3-10 minutes a day as part of their daily practice and whilst doing this over the half-term they will be earning those points for their class band! To promote this further, a daily minutes restriction has been set to '30 minutes' to stop children from excessive screen-time during the half-term.

 

We look forward to see how this Battle of the Bands 'rocks' out and as the Maths Lead, I look forward to announcing the next winners.

 

Currently the trophy is held by our previous winners:

• 3H - LKS2 Winners
• 6F - UKS2 Winners 
   

The question is... who will be our next winners...?