Throughout the year students will learn to:
- comprehend how different texts achieve effects
- analyse, explain and use language features, images and vocabulary that represent ideas, characters and events
- compare and analyse information in different complex texts, explaining direct and indirect meaning
- explain responses through studied texts
- listen to discussions, summarise content and challenging others’ ideas
- acknowledge how language features and patterns can be used for emphasis
- show how an opinion can be supported by using specific details
- explain how choices of language features and images are used
- create detailed texts elaborating on key ideas for a range of purposes and audiences.
- make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies and technology for effect
- make considered grammar and vocabulary choices to enhance cohesion and structure in writing
- use accurate spelling and punctuation for clarity and edit work consciously
Throughout the year students will learn to:
- recognise the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers
- solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers and related fractions
- connect fractions, decimals and percentages as different representations of the same number
- make connections between the powers of 10 and the multiplication and division of decimals
- describe rules used in sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals
- connect decimal representations to the metric system and calculate measurement
- make connections and solve problems involving length, area, capacity and volume
- extend timetables beyond 12
- describe combinations of transformations
- solve problems using the properties of angles
- interpret and compare a variety of data
- locate fractions and integers on a number line
- calculate a simple fraction of a quantity
- add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals
- calculate percentage
- write correct number sentences using brackets and order of operations.
- construct simple prisms and pyramids
- describe probabilities using simple fractions, decimals and percentages