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In English, we have continued to work on story structure and story planning. We have planned a Mr Men story using the structure we worked our and developed this by adding details and examples. Yesterday we wrote the opening and first episode of our stories and today we edited these a little with our partners. We also did some work on plural words.

We have been thinking about the properties of 2D shapes in maths and have been trying to learn the names of the shapes and to recognise them. We have focused on different quadrilaterals and polygons.

We have begun our history topic which will be an important part of our curriculum this term. This is a local history topic and is all about the city in which we live. We started off by revising what we learned about Saxons in Year 3 and then thought about what kind of place the Saxons would look for if they wanted to find a new place to establish a village and then we did a problem solving exercise to find such a place. The reason we did this is because Nottingham was first settled by a group of Saxon people in about 650 AD (or 650 CE). It is such a perfect site that all our groups chose the exact place that the Saxons picked all those hundreds of years ago.