MrJennings

In this first week of the Summer Term, we have started a new unit of work in English focussing on persuasive writing. This week we have thought about advertisements and the persuasive techniques advert writers use including use of expert and celebrity opinion, statistics, rhetorical questions, repetition, half-truth, emotive language and exaggeration. We have looked at several adverts, distinguished between fact and opinion in persuasive texts and written two adverts of our own - one a "poster style" advert and one a more text-based example.

At the start of the week we began by revising multiplication and division methods in maths and then we moved on to work on capacity. We have been converting between units (litres and millilitres), reading scales, calculating with measures of capacity and solving problems.

We started our second main Geography topic of the year, which is a study of aspects of the Lake District, by learning about the key landscape features of the areas from photographs and by thinking about "National Parks" in relation to country parks and local parks. Continuing with our history project on life in ancient Greece, we thought about the lives of men in those days (especially their working lives) using images of ancient Greek vase paintings and to interpret and make inferences about how the olive harvest was accomplished and how ancient Greeks bought shoes which fit them.

We finished the week with some water-colour painting.