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In English this week, we have thought about how authors show and develop characters in their stories. We looked at how Philip Ridley showed how "Grandpa" behaved and spoke in unpleasant ways to create an impression, in the reader's mind, of his personality. We then thought about how some stereotypical characters would behave, the ways they speak and the sorts of things they say. Finally, we wrote an episode of the Three Bears, portraying Baby Bear as a very naughty child.

Our maths work has focused on multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 (including decimal numbers) and understanding the effect of these processes. We then moved on to apply our knowledge and ability to do this in converting units of measurement (e.g. converting kilometres to metres, metres to centimetres and vice versa)

We have spent several sessions on our geography topic about the Lake District this week, learning something about National Parks in the UK, their locations and relating local parks to country parks and national parks. We also started a unit about forestry in the Lake District in which we thought about the different jobs in the industry and some of the knowledge that a forester must have.

We had two PE sessions, a science session about the planets in our solar system and finished the week with art and a ukulele lesson. Also this week, we completed our Class Agreement and selected a Class Target for the half term.