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Y5 Weekly Update: 18th April - 21st April 2017
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English
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Persuasive texts
This week we have studied the features of persuasive texts in detail, looking closely at the content and format. We discussed, annotated, recorded and began to plan what we will write about, making sure we have the powerful vocabulary and adventurous conjunctions needed.
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Planning, drafting and editing
Next week we shall begin to draft out our persuasive texts. We will be discussing our editing to ensure improvements suggested add to the quality of the final draft. Finally we will present our persuasive argument to the class.
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Maths
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Mental Addition and Subtraction
We worked on mental addition and subtraction of money using rounding, counting up and counting back. The week was concluded by working on word problems that required more than one step to solve.
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Multiplying Fractions and Short Multiplication
Next week we will begin by multiplying fractions by a single digit. We will move on to comparing long and short multiplication of 3 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers, before using the short multiplication method.
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Unit of Inquiry
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Tuning In
We began tuning in to our new topic by solving a word puzzle of jumbled up letters, given a clue and the number of letters in each word. We then moved on to exploring the possibilities of what sharing the planet may mean, before thinking about the consequences of not sharing.
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Finding Out
Next week we will begin to find out the answers to some of our questions and following our lines of inquiry into what are the causes of conflict, what are human rights and equality,strategies used to resolve conflict and the consequences of resolutions.
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Notices and Events
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Just a reminder that the children have weekly Mathematics activities set on the computer and reading comprehension activities on a shared Google Doc.
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