Year 6

Home Learning Pack 6

Name: ____________

Week beginning: Monday 1st June 2020

Monday Reading –

Adolphus Tips

Writing –

Analysing news

reports

Maths -

Decimals and

percentages

Science –

Naturalists and

animal

behaviourists

& Save the Bees

Tuesday Reading –

Adolphus Tips

Grammar –

Formal or

informal language

Maths –

Decimals and

percentages

Theme –

Roman Baths

Wednesday Reading –

Adolphus Tips

Writing –

Using features of

a news report

Maths –

Decimals and

percentages

R.E. –

Ramadan

Thursday Reading –

Adolphus Tips

Writing –

Planning own news

report

Maths -

Decimals and

percentages

PSHCE –

E Safety

Friday Reading –

Poetry

Writing –

Writing own news

report

Maths -

Decimals and

percentages

Theme –

Art - Picasso

In addition to the activities set for each day, included in this week’s pack is a set of spellings for you

to practice which have been taken from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list produced by the government.

Why not try to include some of the words you practice in the writing activities for this week!

At the end of the booklet, there is also an extra page of Maths challenges, for those budding

mathematicians!

Spelling Practice: Look, say cover, write, check

Year Group: Year 6 ‘S’ sound spelt as ‘c’

Look Say Cover Write Check Write Check Write Check

Bicycle

Centre

Century

Certain

Circle

Decide

Exercise

Experience

Medicine

Notice

Now choose four of the words to write in sentences:

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2.__________________________________________________________

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3.__________________________________________________________

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4.__________________________________________________________

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This week’s comprehension activities are based on our class book, ‘The Amazing Story of Adolphus

Tips’ by Michael Morpurgo. Each of the chapters that you will need have been typed up and included,

with the set of questions/activities for each day. However, on Friday, you can apply your learning

from the week to a poetry text.

Reading – Monday

Monday, November 1st 1943

“Pinch, punch, first day of the month. Slap and a kick for being so quick. Punch in the eye for being so sly.”

Barry kept saying it to me every time he saw me. It was really annoying. In the end I shouted at him hurt

his feelings. I know I shouldn’t have, he was only trying to be friendly. He didn’t cry but he nearly did.

But tonight I feel worse about something else, something much worse. Ever since Bloomers came I’ve been

giving her a hard time, we all have, but me most of all. I’m really good at giving people a hard time when I

want to. I cheeked her when she first came because I didn’t like her and she got ratty and punished me. So

I cheeked her again and she punished me again and on it went, and after that I could never get on with her

at all. I’ve known her, and now this has happened.

The vicar came into school today and told us he’d be teaching us for the morning because Mrs Blumfeld

wasn’t feeling very well. She wasn’t ill so much as sad, sad because she had just heard the news that her

husband, who is in the merchant navy, had been lost at sea in the Atlantic. His ship had been torpedoed.

They’d picked up a few survivors, but Mrs Blumfeld’s husband wasn’t one of them. The vicar told us that

when she came back into school we had to be very good and kind, so as not to upset her. Then he said we

should close our eyes and hold our hands together and pray for her. I did pray for her too, but I also prayed

for myself, because I don’t want God to have his own back on me for all the horrible things I’ve said and

thought about her. I prayed for my dad too, that God wouldn’t make him die in the desert just because I’d

been mean to Mrs Blumfeld, that I hadn’t meant it when I’d said I wanted him to die because he drowned

the kittens. I’ve never prayed so hard in my life. Usually my mind wanders when I’m supposed to be

praying, but it didn’t today.

After lunch Mrs Blumfeld came into school. She had no lipstick on. She looked so pale and cold. She was

trembling a little too. We left a letter for her on her desk which we had all signed, to say how sorry we all

were about her husband. She looked very calm, as if she was in a daze. She wasn’t crying or anything, not

until she read our letter. Then she tried to smile at us through her tears and said it was very thoughtful of

us, which it wasn’t because it was the vicar’s idea, but we didn’t tell her that. We all went around

whispering and being extra good and quiet all day. I feel so bad for her now because she’s all alone. I won’t

call her Bloomers ever again. I don’t think anyone will.

Reading day one questions

1) How did Lily end up hurting Barry’s feelings?

2) Why do you think Lily did not get along with her teacher?

3) Why did Lily feel it was so important to pray properly on that particular day?

4) Find one piece of evidence that shows Lily concentrated on her prayers at school that day.

5) Find 3 pieces of evidence that prove Mrs Blumfeld was exceptionally upset about her husband’s death.

Writing – Monday

Newspaper reports –

This week, we are going to be reminding ourselves, how to write newspaper reports.

Remember, a newspaper report needs to…

Key features of a newspaper report

Your task – Read the example newspaper report below and around the edge, try to spot the features of a

news report (listed above).

Were any of the feature missing?

Did you spot the 5 Ws (who, where, when, why, what)?

Is there any other information you would have liked including?

A small group of Year 5 students,

from Newport Primary School,

have created a brilliant plan to raise

money for a local charity that

assists people in the community.

Following a visit to the school from

a charity representative, back in

March, the students set out to

create a way of raising much

needed funds.

The students presented the

fundraising idea to school principal

Mrs Justine Knight, who saw great

potential in the plan to sell produce

from the school’s vegetable garden

to local restaurants and, in turn,

raise money for the local charity.

She stated that ‘the children have

displayed a true sense of

community in their fundraising

plan.’ Following a meeting with

teachers, it is hoped that the

students can begin to implement

their four-phase plan. ‘The school

would support students wholly in

the fund raising venture,’ Mrs

Knight added.

The school plans to sell the garden

produce to two local restaurants,

beginning in early September.

For more information on this

fundraising plan, visit the Arkwood

Primary School website

(www.arkwood.sch.com).

School Children Raise Funds for Local Charity Frances Trackall, Education reporter

From left to right: Sarah, Libby, William,

Martha, Finley, Harry, Jack and Emma.

Maths – Monday -

Decimals and percentages day 1

4.5 x 10

234 x 35 4673 + 4.5

2/3 x 3

4/5 ÷ 4 6/7 ÷ 8

10,000 – 900 4/5 + 2/7 0.76 – 0.11

1) What is the calculation represented in the image?

2) What has 3.12 been multiplied to make 312 ?

3)

4) How can you use the answer to 4.6 x 3 to find the answer to 46 x 3?

5)

6)

Science – Monday Task 1

Today, you are going to learn about some significant naturalists and animal behaviourists and explore the importance and impact of their work within the scientific community.

Naturalists study plants and animals

Animal behaviourists are people who love animals and study them to learn and understand animal behaviour – why they do things and act in certain ways. They look at the animal’s environment and try to find what caused the behaviour.

Biography Task - research a significant naturalist or animal behaviourist and create a poster that showcases their life, achievements and significance.

We would love to see any completed posters on our Twitter page!

Suggested websites for significant naturalists research David Attenborough:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140629072518/ http://davidattenborough.co.uk/biography/ Jane Goodall:

http://www.janegoodall.org.uk/jane-goodall Steve Backshall: http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/

http://www.stevebackshall.com/ Steve Irwin:

http://www.crocodilehunter.com.au/crocodile_hunter/about_steve_terri/ George McGavin:

http://speakingofscience.juliegould.net/science-communication/speaking-to-dr-george-mcgavin/

Science Task 2 -

Save those bees!

LIFE CYCLES

Can you remember the discussions that we had at school, at

the beginning of this unit, about pollination?

A few questions to get your brains warmed up!

Can you explain the process of pollination?

Do you remember why bees and other insects are important in this process?

What would happen if we didn’t have these insects to help plants pollinate?

Challenge - Your task over the coming week is to keep a food diary.

You should write down all foods and drinks that you consume. If it is possible, you should

double check food packaging and recipes for all ingredients.

Once you have completed Task 1, can you calculate the percentage of the meals you ate

over the week that would no longer be available if bees were to become extinct?

_______________%

So, which foods would you miss the most if bees were no longer able to pollinate the

crops?

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Did you know that bees pollinate all of these crops?

Almonds, apples, apricots, artichokes, asparagus, aubergines, avocados, beans, beetroots,

blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, brazil nuts, broad beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts,

cabbages, carrots, cashews, cauliflowers, celery, cherries, chestnuts, chillies, chives, cinnamon,

clover, coconuts, courgettes, coriander, cranberries, cucumbers, elderberries, fennel, garlic,

grapes, hazelnuts, kiwi fruits, leeks, lemons, mangos, melons, nectarines, onions, oranges,

papaya, passion fruit, peaches, pears, peppers, plums, pomegranates, pumpkins, raspberries,

redcurrants, squash, strawberries, tangerines, turnips, vanilla, walnuts and watermelons.

My Food Diary

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Supper

Snacks

Reading – Tuesday

Monday, November 8th 1943

Ever since Mrs Blumfelds husband was killed, I’ve been worrying a lot about Dad. I didn’t before, but I am now, all

the time. I keep thinking of him lying dead in the sand of Africa. I try not to, but the picture of him lying there keeps

coming into my head. And it’s silly, I know it is, because I got a letter from him only yesterday, at last, and he’s fine.

(His letters take for every to come. This one was dated two months ago.) He never said anything about me being

cross. In fact he sent his love to Tips. Dad says it’s so hot out in the desert he could almost fry an egg on the bonnet

of his jeep. He says he longs for a few days of good old Devon drizzle, and mud. How can you miss mud? We’re all

sick of mud. It’s been raining here for days now: mizzly, drizzly, horrible rain. Today it was blowing in from the sea, so

I was wet through by the time I got home from school.

Grandfather came in later. He’d been drinking a bit, but then he always drinks a bit when he goes to market, just to

keep the cold out, he says. He sat down in front of the stove and put his feet in the bottom oven to warm up. Mum

hates him doing it, but he does it all the same. He’s got holes in his socks too. He always has.

“There’s hundreds of gum-chewing Yanks everywhere in town,” he said. Like flies on ruddy cow clap. I like when

Grandfather talks like that. He got a dirty look from Mum, but he didn’t mind. He just gave me a big wink and a

wicked grin and went on talking. He said he was sure something’s going on: there are fuel dumps everywhere you

look, tents going up all over the place, tanks and lorries parked everywhere. “It’s something big,” he said. “I’m telling

you.”

Still raining out there. It’s lashing the windowpanes as I’m writing, and the whole house is creaking and shaking,

almost as if it’s getting ready to take off and fly out over the sea. I can hear the cows lowing in the barn. They’re

scared. Tips is frightened silly too. She wants to hide. She keeps jogging my writing. She’s trying to push her head

deeper and deeper into my armpit. I’m not frightened. I like storms. I like it when the sea comes thundering in and

then wind blows so hard that it takes your breath away.

Reading questions day 2

1) What has made Lily worry so much about her father? Use evidence from the text to support your answer

2) Why might father’s letter not be a comfort to her about his safety? Use evidence from the text to support

your answer.

3) What excuse does Lily give for her Grandfather drinking? How might she feel about this and how do you

know?

4) ‘Like flies on ruddy cow clap.’ When Grandfather refers to the American soldier what is the meaning of this

sentence?

5) ‘She keeps jogging my writing.’ What is the cat doing to jog Lily’s writing?

Grammar – Tuesday

Formal and Informal Language

Formal Language

Formal language is used for more official and serious purposes. The correct grammar should always be

used.

Informal Language

In informal situations and informal writing, a more relaxed casual and chatty style can be used. Slang

words and abbreviations are more acceptable.

Task 1 - Sort the following criteria into formal or informal language conventions. You can either cut and stick these

on a different piece of paper or label each statement Formal/Informal.

Task 2

Some vocabulary is more formal, whereas other words have a more informal tone. Can you match up these formal

words with their informal partners?

Task 3 – Write a sentence to match each picture, using a formal word in place of the informal word given!

Formal

sufficient

injustice

profession

opportunity

sacrifice

immediately

Informal

now

chance

enough

job

give up

not fair

need tell you swap

buy sorry glasses

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Tell you_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Swap___________________________________________________________________________________________

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Buy____________________________________________________________________________________________

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Sorry___________________________________________________________________________________________

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Glasses_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Did you get them right? ANSWERS

Do you think newspapers generally use a more formal or informal style? Why might this be the case?

Maths – Tuesday –

Decimals and percentages day 2

6.7 x 3 34 x 55 367 x 23

What is 10% of 450 1% of 560 33% of 9004

Topic – Tuesday History – Roman baths

The Romans loved to keep clean and bathing was a sociable experience which they enjoyed sharing

together. Follow the link below to watch a short clip explaining the three main bathing experiences –

and how they got hot water! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z8grkqt

Here’s a birds eye view of what a Roman bath might have looked like:

Using information from the clip and your own research, answer these questions below:

1.) How did the Romans get water to the baths? Was this the case for all baths?

2.) What was the ‘Tepidarium’ used for?

3.) Were all rooms hot in the Roman baths? If not, which were and which weren’t?

4.) How did the Romans create heat?

5.) Who was able to use the baths?

6.) What other activities could the Romans do at the baths?

7.) What was a strigil used for?

Reading – Wednesday

Monday, November 8th 1943 (continued)

Mrs Blumfeld said something this morning that took my breath away too. That Daisy Simmons, Ned’s little sister, is

always asking questions when she shouldn’t and today she put her hand up and asked Mrs Blumfeld if she was a

mummy, just like that! Mrs Blumfeld didn’t seem to mind at all. She thought for a bit, then she said that she would

never have any children of her own because she didn’t need them; she had all of us instead. We were her family

now. And she had her cats, which she loved. I didn’t know she had cats. I was watching her when she said it and you

could see she really did love them. I was so wrong about her. She likes cats so she must be nice. I’m going to sleep

now and I’m not going to think of Dad lying out in the desert. I’m going to think of Mrs Blumfeld at home with her

cats instead.

I just went to shut the window and I saw a barn owl flying across the farmyard, white and silent in the darkness.

There one moment, gone the next. A ghost owl. He’s screeching now. They screech, they don’t toowit-toowoo. That

word looks really funny when you write it down, but owls don’t have to write it down, down they? They just have to

hoot it, or toowit – toowoo it.

Saturday November 13th 1943

Today wad a day that will change my life for ever. Grandfather was right when he said something was up. And it is

something big too, something very big – I have to keep pinching myself to believe it’s true, that it’s really going to

happen.

Reading activity day 3

1) What did Mrs Blumfeld say that took Lily’s breath away?

2) Why does Lily describe the owl to be ghost like?

3) Can you write a prediction for what you think is going to happen next in Lily’s diary.

4) Write the next part of Lily’s diary

Today wad a day that will change my life for ever. Grandfather was right when he said something was up.

And it is something big too, something very big – I have to keep pinching myself to believe it’s true, that it’s

really going to happen.

Writing – Wednesday

Price: 1 magic bean Sunday, 22nd Feb

WICKED WOLF GETS HIS JUST DESSERTS Pinocchio, Junior Correspondent

Yesterday afternoon, a young girl and her grandmother miraculously survived a run-in with

a ravenous wolf. Little Red Riding Hood was visiting her grandmother’s cottage in the forest

when both were swallowed alive by the creature. However, luck was on their side, as a

local woodcutter was on hand to cut them free.

At approximately 1:15 p.m. on 21st February, witnesses claimed that they saw Miss

Riding Hood, a young girl aged 10, skip into the forest carrying a basket of cupcakes. The

path from the village through the forest is a well-trodden route, used by everyone from

school children to village elders. Local resident Goldilocks (12) of Porridge Drive said,

“I’ve used that path hundreds of times and it’s always seemed perfectly safe.” Mr Hansel

(35), who runs the village orphanage, commented, “Of course, I warn the children not

to approach any gingerbread houses. But avoid the woods entirely? Nonsense.”

Miss Riding Hood claims that she was nearly at her granny’s cottage when she was

approached by a wolf posing as a polite gentleman. She reports that the wolf acted kindly

at first, and even pointed out a shortcut to her granny’s cottage. However, all was not as it

seemed. Miss Riding Hood explained that from the moment she arrived at her granny’s

cottage, she could sense that something was not quite right.

Once inside, Riding Hood found her granny

in her nightgown, tucked up in bed,

apparently ill. However, after a short bout

of questioning, Red soon realised that the

person to whom she was speaking was not

her granny at all, but the wolf in disguise.

Miss Riding Hood alleges that both she and

her granny were gobbled whole by the

cunning beast. “I found Granny alive, but

very uncomfortable, inside the wolf’s

stomach,” she told The Once Upon a Times.

After ten traumatic minutes inside the wolf, the pair were freed by an axe-wielding

woodcutter.

“As soon as I saw the wolf on the bed, I knew that something was wrong,” stated the heroic

woodcutter. “You didn’t have to be a genius to work out where Granny and Red had ended

up. He’d had the old lady for starters and her granddaughter for the main course.”

Miss Riding Hood and her grandmother are now staying with Miss Riding Hood’s mother in

the village, where they are said to be recovering well. Meanwhile, Mayor Gretel has

announced plans for an investigation into the cunning, wolfish activity in Fairytale Forest.

If she fails to act, could our beloved forest be lost forever?

Task 1 - Some key features of the text type have been highlighted in the example news report above. Read through the text and then try to work out which feature has been highlighted in which colour. Complete the key below to show your answers.

Key:

Formal, reporting language

Adverbials to link paragraphs

Headline

Caption

Written in the past tense

Written in the third person

Direct speech

Facts and evidence

Task 2 – Now, choose your own fairy tale or nursey rhyme and have a go at writing the

beginning of your own news report. You must include a headline, byline and first/lead

paragraph and try to use as many of the key features featured above as you can!

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Maths – Wednesday

Decimals and percentages day 3

12% of 450

1% of 97 6.7 + 3.44

45 x 33

213 x 45 0.9 x 10

784 + 45

10,999 – 23 ½ x ¾

What is the missing digit in the calculation?

Use these calculations to find : 0.563 x 4

RE – Wednesday

Ramadan

During Ramadan, Muslims try to give up any bad habits or negative behaviour and try to do more good

deeds.

What bad habits would you give up and what good deeds could you do? Draw a picture or describe

your habits and deeds.

Good deeds Bad habits

Reading – Thursday

Saturday November 13th 1943

Yesterday, was just like any other day. Rain. School. Long division. Spelling test. Barry picking his nose.

Barry smiling at me from across the classroom with his big round eyes. I just wish he wouldn’t smile at me

so. He’s always so smiley.

Then today it happened. I knew all day there was going to be some kind of meeting in the church in the

evening, that someone from every house had to go and it was important. I knew that, because Mum and

Grandfather were arguing about it over breakfast before I went off to school. Grandfather was being

grumpy old goat. He’d been getting crotchety a lot just lately. (Mum says it’s because of his rheumatism –

it gets worse in damp weather.) He kept saying he had too much to do on the farm to be bothered with

meetings and such. And besides he said, women were better at talking because they did more of it. Of

course that made Mum really mad, so they had a fair old dingdong about it. Anyway, in the end Mum gave

in and said she’d go, and she asked me to go along with her for company. I didn’t want to go but now I’m

glad I did, really glad.

The place was packed out. There was standing room only by the time we got there. Then this bigwig, lord

Somethingoranother, got up and started talking, I didn’t pay much attention at first because he had this

droning hoity-toity (I like that word) sort of voice that almost put me to sleep. But suddenly I felt a strange

stillness and silence all around me. It was almost as if everyone had stopped breathing. Everyone was

listening, so I listened too. I can’t remember his exact words, but I think it went something like this.

“ I know it’s asking a lot of you,” the bigwig was saying, “but I promise we wouldn’t be asking you if we

didn’t have to, if it wasn’t absolutely necessary. They’ll be needing the beach at Slapton Sands and the

whole area behind it, including this village. They need it because they have to practise landings from the

sea for the invasion of France when it comes. That’s all I can tell you. Everything else is top secret. No point

in asking me anything about it, because I don’t know any more than you do. What I do know is that you

have seven weeks from today to move out, lock, stock and barrel – and I mean that. You have to take

everything with you: furniture, food, coal, all your animals, farm machinery, fuel and all fodder and crops

that can be carried. Nothing you value must be left behind. After the seven weeks is up, no one will be

allowed back – and I mean no-one!

Reading questions day 4

1) What was similar about Friday to every other day?

2) What had Lily’s mother and Grandfather been arguing about?

3) How does the reader know that someone important is taking the meeting?

4) Why does Lily refer to the gentleman as ‘Lord Somethingoranother’?

5) What is the meaning of the word ‘fodder’?

Literacy – Thursday

Have a look at some of these fun lockdown

images that have made the news.

Planning a Newspaper Report

Choose your favourite fun lockdown story and plan a news report for the

Gilberdyke Gazette

Name of newspaper: Price:

Date:

Story headline:

Body - Break up the story in time order.

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Introduction/Lead

Who was involved?

What happened?

Where did the event take place?

When did it happen?

Final paragraph/Tail

What are the subjects

(people/animals) doing

now and what might

happen in the future?

Interviews

Who will you interview?

How are they involved in the

events?

What did they have

to say? Will you use direct or reported speech?

What will your picture be of? ________________________________

What will the caption be? __________________________________

Maths – Thursday

Decimals and percentages day 4

7.7 x 34 677 – 456 27 x 35

0.02 – 0.001 -6 + 6 -8 + 9

3 X 5 – 7 (7-5) + 18 9³

PSHCE – Thursday

E-safety : Begin by watching the video clip and then think about the questions below

Task

Can you create an information poster to explain the ‘Block it’ rule!

When you have finished ask your parents to share it with us on

Twitter so the rest of our community can learn your important ‘Block

it’ rule!

Reading – Friday

The Revival of Crumbledown School

Truth to tell in years gone by,

Crumbledown School, no word of a lie,

Was an awful place,

Full of woe,

Where no sane child would want to go.

Morale was low, detentions high,

Hard to say exactly why…

Years had passed

With no respite,

It kept the head awake at night.

Mr Watkin did whatever he could,

But nothing he tried seemed to do much good.

Pupils walked with shoulders down,

Teachers dull,

Their clothes all brown

Until one day a girl arrived -

9 years old and

In Year 5 -

Her name was Sue and she had a dream,

Of starting up a football team.

The PE teacher was sadly lacking,

Shrugged his shoulders and

Sent her packing

“It’s a daft idea by any token,

And anyway, my whistle’s broken.”

Undeterred, Sue went away,

And made a plan that very day,

A buzz began

Around the school,

A football team might be quite cool!

A squad was formed that self-same week,

So Mr Watkin took a peek,

To call them ‘chaotic’

Would be understating,

Even ‘a shambles’ would be overrating.

They lost every game, not just by a few

(I believe the last score was 30 to 2)

That being said,

They never gave up;

Sue was determined to lift the league cup.

Then an odd thought occurred, worth

supposition,

That important as training

Might be their nutrition…

Carbohydrates and protein – they were the key!

She would plan their whole diet, as strict as could

be.

So she banned crisps and pop, “Be gone chocs

and sweets”,

And made special veg smoothies

With cabbage and beets,

And a secret ingredient which nobody knew

And Sue won’t divulge, not even to you!

The sensational smoothies made the team more

resilient,

And not only that -

They were actually brilliant!

They won every game, getting better each day

And nothing it seemed would stand in their way.

The children were thrilled by their new reputation

And Sue’s special smoothies

Were quite the sensation!

The school was transformed from where boredom was rife

To a place full of energy, vigour and life!

This tale has a moral, you must understand

That health and nutrition

Work best hand in hand.

So please don’t ignore what good it can do

To eat 5 a day and get exercise too.

Cut your sugar right down, be the best you can be,

You’ll feel so much better, just try it, and see!

And as for Sue’s smoothies,

The word got about

Now it’s rumoured that England are trying them out!

Questions about the poem

1. What is the name of the head teacher?

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2. Line four uses the word ‘woe’. Think of a synonym for this word

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3. What does the phrase ‘with no respite’ tell us about the feeling around the school?

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4. How old is Sue?

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5 What adjectives are used to describe the football team? ___________________ and _________________

Can you think of two others that could have been used?

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6. Circle the word that you believe is closest in meaning to divulge.

Lie Tell Eat Sell

7. The author chose to use the word ‘rife’. Can you explain what rife means?

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8. What is your favourite part of the poem and why?

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9. Crumbledown School was much improved by having a football team. What do you think would make your

school a better place to be?

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10. Write a short poem about your school and what you like about it. It doesn’t have to rhyme. It could even be

an acrostic poem, e.g.

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Grammar – Friday

Using your newspaper plan from yesterday, write a fun/happy lockdown story.

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Checklist for Writing

Try your best to include all of the features below in you writing. If you are really pushing yourself, the features in yellow will take your writing to the next

level!

Punctuation and Sentences

Punctuation: Full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas in lists, commas to separate off extra bits of information, speech marks

Punctuation: colons, semi-colons, brackets, dashes, ellipsis Sentences:

Use some description

Make sense

Be in the correct tense, i.e. past or present

Write in 3rd person

Use different words for the same thing, e.g. Peter…, he…, the boy….

Use a wide range of connectives, e.g. because, if, although, while, despite, meanwhile

Vary sentence length and structure, e.g. use openers; drop extra bits into the middle of sentences between bracketing comma; add extra bits to the end of a sentence

Sentences:

Carefully structure sentences to make sure the reader focuses on the key points and doesn’t get bogged down with less important bits

Move between tenses within your report

How your writing is organised

Write in paragraphs

Well-developed introduction/lead and ending/tail

Develop a clear focus for each paragraph

Write several sentences in each paragraph so that ideas are fully developed

Make links between paragraphs so that writing flows in a sensible order

Vary structure and length of paragraphs to create the best effect for the text type

Try to link your paragraphs (using adverbial openers)

Ensure your final/tail paragraph explain the ‘what next?’ Effect of writing on the reader

Stick to the same view all the way through

Think carefully about who the writing is meant to be for and adapt the style to suit

Adapt content of writing so that you only include relevant details

Include facts

Include direct speech (quotes)

Use a wide selection of carefully chosen vocabulary, linked to the subject

Use alliteration, personification, metaphors (where relevant)

Write as if you are an expert

Maths – Friday

Decimals and percentages day 5

4/5 ÷ 4 5/6 x 4 4/5 + 3/4

6.7 x 3 7.99 + 4.55 89.974 – 12.098

10,000 – 12 Round to the nearest 10 – 564

Round to the nearest whole 4.56

Topic – Friday

Picasso

Picasso’s cubist artwork of people and objects uses a combination of different angles and shapes.

Below are a set of steps which you can follow to make your own cubist piece of art! Please share your

creations on Twitter! @gilberdykerocks @ospreys2020

1) Begin by drawing a simple object, like a

butterfly or perhaps a flower.

2) Use a rule to to draw lines through your

picture to break it up into smaller shapes.

3) You can then use crayons, felt tips, paint (or

even collage!) to fill each section in with

different colours

4.) Here are some compelted examples to give you idea as to what it could look like!

Just for fun!

Answers from Pack 5