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We have continued our work on persuasive writing in English. After studying and annotating a written argument in terms of its organisation and language features, we have looked more closely at the writing of the main paragraphs and opening paragraph of this type of text. We have learned how to plan a written argument by thinking about the main points and details included in exemplar texts and re-creating the author's plan. We have then planned texts of our own by generating lots of ideas and then sorting them under two or three headings. Today we started writing our own arguments about "wet playtimes".

In maths, our focus has been on units of measurement (mainly of capacity). We have also done some more work on reading scales (and interpreting them to judge quantities between the marks on the scale) before moving on to drawing and interpreting line graphs.

We have done a little more in our history work (thinking about the lives of children and comparing the lives of rich and poor women in ancient Athens) and have completed a unit in our geography topic about forestry in the Lake District. We finished the week by starting an art topic about containers.