Week beginning 25th April

May 8, 2022

What are we learning this week?

English –

In our English lessons, we shall still be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth. In our daily Reading lessons, we shall use supplementary texts. This weeks supplementary texts will be a mixture of Shakespeare’s sonnets and non-fiction texts about: the Tudors, the theatre, newspaper reports about Shakespeare and Shakespeare – himself.

Shakespeare Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Leon Garfield, Michael Foreman: 9780140389388: Books Macbeth The Graphic Novel: Plain Text British English: Amazon.co.uk: William Shakespeare, Clive Bryant, Jon Haward, Gary Erskine, John McDonald, Karen Wenborn, Nigel Dobbyn, Jo Wheeler: Books Macbeth (A Shakespeare Story): Amazon.co.uk: Andrew Matthews, William Shakespeare, Tony Ross: 8601200716023: Books

Our English lesson learning objectives this week are:

To use reported and direct speech accurately and appropriately.
To use role play and drama to explore atmosphere.
To write a newspaper report.
To edit and up-level my writing.

What is our class reading book?

Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews. Each week, the children in Year 6 vote for which two of the Shakespeare short stories that they would like to listen to. Afterwards, we shall be looking to identifying similarities and differences across the collection.

Maths –

To know the order of operations
To recap on Place value and solve a variety of questions
To be able to add and subtract Fractions with different denominators
To be able to simplify fractions
To be able to divide proper fractions by a whole number
To solve problems involving division

Science –

Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be planning our investigation as to what affects the growth of mould.

Foundation subjects to be taught this week:

Art, PE and Spanish

What are we learning this week?

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