Well done!  You have completed all the maths and literacy exams.  It will take time for the teachers to mark all the exams.

Maths exam tomorrow

Today we had our comprehension exam, with fiction and non-fiction sections.  Tomorrow we have our maths exam.  It will begin with some mental maths questions, followed by some written questions.  At home please look carefully through the revision sheets I have given you, including the practice mental questions.  Do not stay up too late studying.  Get a good night's rest and come to school refreshed.  See you tomorrow.

Literacy: writing exam and comprehension revision

Today we did our writing exam.  It will take a few days for the teachers to mark 150 papers and level them.  On Sunday we have our comprehension exam.  At home please review the comprehensions we have done over the last few weeks, and do the final non-fiction practice comprehension about scones.

Maths: general revision

We did more general revision today, answering lots of practice questions about all kinds of maths.  We found an interesting area question on one of our revision sheets.  There are three ways of drawing a rectangle with area 16 square centimetres and two of them are shown on the board above.  The bottom one is a square, but a square is a special kind of rectangle.  A shape with four sides and four right angles is a rectangle, so both the shapes on the board are rectangles.

At home, over the weekend, look through the mental practice papers I gave you, and read the sheet about solid shapes.  You do not need to write any answers or make any of the shapes.  Just make sure you understand all the information.  Ignore the sentence on the sheet about a sqube.  You certainly won't be asked about that in the exam!

Literacy: non-fiction comprehension: Boats

We looked through the Boats comprehension.  The answers are quite easy to find if we read carefully.  Check that you have included all the information needed.

As usual, the harder questions are near the end.  As well as using our own ideas we need to prove that we have read and understood the text.

At home please read through your practice stories ready for tomorrow's writing exam.

Literacy: story practice and non-fiction comprehension practice

This afternoon we wrote our final practice story before Thursday's writing exam.  We spent five minutes thinking and planning, and the rest of the time quietly writing.  We remembered that it was important to plan ahead, and have the ending in mind before we started.  We checked our punctuation and wrote in sentences with full stops and capital letters.

At home please do the non-fiction comprehension about Boats.  Read well and give complete answers.  Enjoy doing your homework.

Maths revision

Today we did more maths revision.  We revised many things including column subtraction.  If you are not sure how to do column subtraction, read carefully through the example on the board.  Each step is written in a different colour.  All the crossing out and borrowing is explained.