Monksmead School

Reading

• Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and make up own mind about issue/s.
• Compare between two texts
• Appreciate that people use bias in persuasive writing.
• Appreciate how two people may have a different view on the same event.
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
• Vary voice for direct or indirect speech.
• Recognise clauses within sentences.
• Explain how and why a writer has used clauses to add information to a sentence.
• Use more than one source when carrying out research.
• Create a set of notes to summarise what has been read.

• Our reading scheme is Bug club from Pearson

Writing

• Add phrases to make sentences more precise and detailed.
• Use range of sentence openers – judging the impact or effect needed.
• Begin to adapt sentence structure to text type.
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.
• Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will).
• Use the following to indicate parenthesis:

• o   brackets

  o dashes

  o   comma

• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.
• Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
• Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g. she began to run).
• Consistently organize into paragraphs.
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly).
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Maths

• Count forwards and backward with positive and negative numbers through zero.
• Count forwards/backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000.
• Compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000.
• Compare and order numbers with 3 decimal places.
• Read Roman numerals to 1,000.
• Identify all multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs.
• Use known tables to derive other number facts.
• Recall prime numbers up to 19.
• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers.
• Recognise place value of any number up to 1,000,000.
• Round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 or 100,000.
• Round decimals with 2 decimal places to nearest whole number and 1 decimal place.
• Add and subtract numbers with more than 4-digits using formal written method.
• Use rounding to check answers.
• Multiply  4-digits by 1-digit/ 2-digit
• Divide up to 4-digits by 1-digit
• Multiply & divide whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000
• Recognise and use thousandths.
• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one to another.
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers.
• Identify and write equivalent fractions.
• Solve time problems using timetables and converting between different units of time.