The methods for finding the greatest common factor for a series of numbers and for an algebraic expression are similar.

Factoring is the opposite of distributing. If you can find a common factor, you can reduce an expression.

Pupil outcome: I can experiment with typography to express different emotions and ideas. Key learning points: - Learn how graphic designers use typography in posters, advertisements and everyday life. - Explore how typography can go...

Pupil outcome: I can create a letterform that expresses a chosen emotion or theme. Key learning points: - Understand how letter design can express different emotions or ideas. - Colours and shapes play a significant role in expressing...

Pupil outcome: I can think from the character's point of view. Key learning points: - Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story - Acting out stories helps to understand character's...

Pupil outcome: I can construct a truth table to represent a Boolean expression or circuit. Key learning points: - A truth table is a way of summarising and checking the logic of a circuit. - The table shows all possible combinations of...

Pupil outcome: I can use condition statements in selection to control the path a program follows. Key learning points: - Conditions are built using expressions that evaluate to either True or False. - Selection provides program control...

Pupil outcome: I can explain the events that occur after Beowulf’s death and explore his legacy for the Geats. Key learning points: - After Beowulf's death, Wiglaf is furious at the warriors who deserted him. - Beowulf is given a hero's...

Pupil outcome: I can perform ‘The Morning Rush’ by John Foster. Key learning points: - Performing poetry can be an effective way to bring a poem to life for an audience. - Physical gestures and actions help to make a poem more engaging...

Pupil outcome: I can give a personal response to the poem and perform it. Key learning points: - Allan Ahlberg is one of Britain’s most popular and successful children’s writers and is known for his fun storytelling. - ‘Please Mrs...

Pupil outcome: I can perform my own imaginative poem. Key learning points: - Performing poetry to an audience is an important part of the process of creating poetry. - When performing poetry, you must speak at a suitable volume. - Using...

Pupil outcome: I can work in a group to perform a radio broadcast based on a journalistic report about a climate protest. Key learning points: - We can present our written work in a range of ways, including orally. - A radio broadcast...

Pupil outcome: I can sequence and retell the fairy tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. Key learning points: - Fairy tales are fiction stories about magical and imaginary beings and lands. - Fairy tales belong to the genre of folklore...

Pupil outcome: I can read aloud a persuasive letter using expression. Key learning points: - Reading aloud involves speaking in front of others and listening to others. - Reading aloud involves speaking at a suitable volume and pace. -...

Pupil outcome: I can identify and engage with the key themes in ‘Escape from Pompeii’. Key learning points: - A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story. - Themes can leave us with ideas and questions that we...

Pupil outcome: I can reflect on events within a Chapter. Key learning points: - Characterisation is the way an author describes and develops the personalities and traits of the characters in a story - Characterisation can be understood...

Pupil outcome: I can deliver my speech confidently and clearly. Key learning points: - Varying pace and rhythm can help support with presenting the meaning of a text. - Pauses can help vary pace and rhythm. - Facial expressions can help...

Pupil outcome: I can publish the final version of my 'Whale Rider' narrative and I can read it aloud to an audience. Key learning points: - A piece of published writing is the final, best version and should be visually appealing to the...

Pupil outcome: I can use knowledge of the relationships between the 5 and 10 times tables to solve problems. Key learning points: - Five is half of ten. - Multiples of 5 are half the value of multiples of 10 - Ten is double 5 - Multiples...

Pupil outcome: I can use a division story to write a division expression. Key learning points: - Dividing into equal groups can be recorded as a division expression. - 8 divided into groups of 2 can be recorded as 8 ÷ 2 - The whole can...

Pupil outcome: I can represent multiples of ten in a calculation. Key learning points: - Multiples of ten can be represented with addition of tens. - 10 + 10 + 10 is equal to three tens which is equal to 30 - An expression shows the...

Pupil outcome: You can use a balanced equation to calculate unknown parts. Key learning points: - I've added __ to this part so I need to subtract __ from the other part to keep the sum the same. - I've subtracted __ from this part so I...

Pupil outcome: I can use balanced equations to calculate redistribution. Key learning points: - If one part is increased and the other is decreased by the same amount, the whole stays the same. - If one part is decreased and the other is...

Pupil outcome: I can solve problems involving multiplying proper fractions by whole numbers. Key learning points: - Use the language of unitising '__ groups of __ is equal to __' - The numerator of the fraction is multiplied by the whole...