Happy Holidays!

Weekly Update

	This Week	Next Week
English	We will explore a range of advertisements and then consolidate our understanding by producing our own persuasive advertisement.	We will end off our ‘persuasive writing’ unit by making advertisements and then do some holiday related activities
Maths	Use expanded written subtraction and compact written subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit numbers (one ʻexchangeʼ); use expanded column subtraction and compact column subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit and 2-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers (one ʻcarryʼ); learn the 7× table and ʻtrickyʼ facts; use the vertical algorithm to multiply 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers; solve simple money problems with decimals to two decimal places	Use mental multiplication and division strategies; find non-unit fractions of 2-digit and 3-digit numbers; find equivalent fractions and use them to simplify fractions (halves, thirds, quarters)
UOI	We will continue exploring case studies of migrants and further developing our debating skills.	We will end off our UOI by planning and writing a fictional story on migration.
Notices and Events	*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every Monday. *Times table test on Wednesday will be the 4 times table. Please revise. *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at

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Games

This week, we took some time out of our busy schedule to relax and have some fun! :)

Weekly Update

This Week	Next Week
English	We continued our exploration of persuasive texts, looking to identify features commonly used in persuasive writing in other texts.	We will explore a range of advertisements and then consolidate our understanding by producing our own persuasive advertisement.
Maths	Place 4-digit numbers on landmarked lines; 0–10 000 and 1000–2000; round 4-digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000; mentally add and subtract to/from 4-digit and 3-digit numbers using place-value; count on and back in multiples of 10, 100 and 1000; count on in multiples of 25 and 50; add and subtract multiples of 10 and 100 to/from 4-digit numbers	Use expanded written subtraction and compact written subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit numbers (one ʻexchangeʼ); use expanded column subtraction and compact column subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit and 2-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers (one ʻcarryʼ); learn the 7× table and ʻtrickyʼ facts; use the vertical algorithm to multiply 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers; solve simple money problems with decimals to two decimal places
UOI	We will be exploring case studies of migrants and further developing our debating skills.	We will continue exploring case studies of migrants and further developing our debating skills.
Notices and Events	*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every Monday. *Times table test on Wednesday will be the 4 times table. Please revise. *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

Persuasive Writing

Yesterday we used our Persuasive Writing checklist to identify persuasive techniques in a number of different texts.