MrJennings

In the first week of our Summer Term, we have started a new unit of work in English concerned with understanding and creating persuasive writing. This week, we have looked at some advertisements designed for posters and magazines and thought about the persuasive techniques that have been used (including opinion presented as fact, hyperbole, bias, half-truth, etc.) We have tried some exercises distinguishing fact from opinion and stripped out opinion from some adverts to consider just the bare facts. We have also written some adverts ourselves, annotating them to show the persuasive techniques we used in them.

The maths work this week has been concerned with number and place value. This has involved ordering and rounding numbers and finding complements to 100, 10 and 1 (using numbers to two decimal places). We have also done some calculator work.

Apart from this, our main work has been to learn about childhood and child rearing practices in ancient Athens. We have found about about how children were named, how boys and girls were treated very differently from the age of about 6 and what happened in Greek schools. We created a table to compare the lives of boys and girls in those days and wrote an evaluation to explain whether we thought boys or girls had the happier lives in those days. In addition, we found pictures of ancient Greek toys to draw and describe and tried playing "knuckle-bones".

We had two PE lessons, started a new science topic on life cycles and did a little more "one-point perspective" drawing in art.