Year A Spring: Week 4
This week in Oceans we have been planning and writing our own stories based on Charlie and the Chocolate factory. We have all really enjoyed working with this text, a Roald Dahl classic is a firm favourite: including eating sweets and chocolate within lessons doesn’t hurt either! Next week in English, we will turn our attention to Oxford and the many different attractions the city holds. We’ll be using persuasive language to develop our own tourist brochures.

In maths we’ve come to the end of multiplication and division. The children have spent the last few weeks applying their times table knowledge: recognising the relationships between numbers when they are multiplied by 10 (eg. 1x3, 10x3 and 100x3) and using these facts to solve increasingly more complicated division problems (up to 3 digits by 1 digit with remainders eg. 338 ÷ 3) through partitioning.

Having this understanding of the ‘long route’ to answer helped when we shortcut this process and delve into the shorter formal written methods of division. Next week our focus turns to measurement of lengths (mm, cm, m and km) and perimeter.

As geographers this week we’ve been looking at maps and exploring gridlines and compass directions. Using digimap, we were able to turn back time by exploring maps of the local vicinity at different time periods. We saw how some things stayed the same - Iffley and Cowley Roads, Boundary Brook stream running to Thames river - while other things changed: the creation of Florence Park and the spread of housing to join the settlements of Rose Hill and Temple Cowley to Oxford.

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