Maths

This term in Maths, we've been exploring place value, factors, prime numbers, and squared and cubed numbers. We've focused on strengthening our reasoning and problem-solving skills by tackling daily challenges and taking on an extra question designed to deepen our thinking. This week, we've started applying our problem-solving strategies to multiplication.

Reading

In Reading, we've been engaging with a variety of short fiction and non-fiction texts. We've explored new and interesting vocabulary, practised our retrieval skills, and used textual clues alongside our own experiences to make inferences. Additionally, we've worked on SAT-style questions, including 'find and copy', 'true or false', and sequencing tasks to sharpen our comprehension and exam technique.

Writing

In Writing, we've immersed ourselves in Skellig, a novel by David Almond, which inspired us to create a character description, a diary entry, and a persuasive advert. This week, in celebration of National Poetry Week, we've embraced Remembrance Poetry. We joined a live stream with poet Tomfoolery and used his poem as a stimulus for our own writing. We then performed our poems in class, sharing our ideas and developing our performance skills.