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According to their School Improvement Plan, Courtlane Junior School in Cosham needed to address the pupils perception of themselves as mathematicians.

A large scale collaborative project was devised using the inherent mathematics of patterns and geometry to address this.

The pupils were shown a variety of cultural treatment of symbolic pattern and building construction. Working together, their year 4 split into groups to design and build an enormous 8 metre tiled image. Every child designed and made a patterned tile that encoded an aspect of their life.