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Our main work in English this week has focussed on improving the way we develop characters in stories. Following an analysis of the way Philip Ridley makes the reader think that grandpa (in The Hooligan's Shampoo) is a very unpleasant character, we created a set of success criteria for writing characters with real personalities in our own stories. We used these in two main writing tasks - writing an episode of the Cinderella story which showed that Cinderella's step-sisters were very unpleasant characters and writing the opening of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, showing Baby Bear as a very naughty child. In maths, we have continued to be thinking about place value, subtraction and mental multiplication and division. We have learned and practised efficient mental methods for calculating sums like 46+38 and 74-38 mentally and also practised written methods of calculation. Another strand of work in maths has involved spotting number patterns and continuing sequences of numbers. We continued our work on the history of Nottingham by using our knowledge of Saxon life to choose a site for a new village and explain the reasoning behind our selection. In addition to these activities, we have had the ukuleles out again, had two PE sessions, science and an art lesson.