Monthly Archives: June 2020

Thursday 4th June, 2020

Morning all! 🙂

“Quote of the Day” –  Handwriting Practice 

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) doesn’t need any introduction but here are a few reminders. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years by the government of South Africa for his revolutionary anti-apartheid ideas. Apartheid was a racist way of running the country which separated races and made sure only white people had power. Once freed from prison, Nelson Mandela went on to become president of South Africa.

“I learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.”

Today’s Question: Which major award did Nelson Mandela receive in 1993?

Last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday so instead of our usual Floodland, we are going to do some writing about the Holy Spirit. Put all your answers and writing in your red books.

  1. What is the Hebrew word for the spirit of God? R_________
  2. What three words are used to help us understand the Spirit of God? E_________,  W_________, B_________.
  3. What does the spirit of God enable the prophets to do?
  4. What form does the Holy Spirit take when it descends on Jesus? It rests upon him like a __________.

Click on the dove above to read Acts 2:1-31 and the account of the Pentecost

           5. What unusual gift does the Holy Spirit give to the apostles?

Imagine you were present at the Pentecost. You could take the part of one of the apostles and imagine what it felt like to receive the Holy Spirit, or you could but an onlooker, and describe what you saw happen to the apostles  Write an account of the Pentecost. Aim for at least 100 words.

Maths

These 5-a-day come in 4 levels of difficulty. Click on the word for that level of question. Platinum are the most challenging.

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Answers:

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Summer Term Week 6: Lesson 4 – Fractions as operators
Click on the picture below to take you to the White Rose page.  Click on ‘Summer Term – Week 6’ then – Lesson 4 – Fractions as operators.

Classroom Secrets

 

Wednesday 3rd June, 2020

Hullo Year Five!

“Quote of the Day” –  Handwriting Practice

Marie Curie (1867- 1934) was a Polish-French Chemist and Physicist who did pioneering research into radiation and made discoveries which still have an effect on all our lives. In 1903, she became the first woman to win the Nobel prize. She is also the only person to win a Nobel prize in two different subjects.

 “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

Today’s Question: Where was Marie Curie born? Click on the photo above to find the answer.

English – Floodland – Then – Five – 45-49

For Floodland today we need to look at this nursery rhyme. It’s quite an old one so you might not have heard it before. Watch the video and then see if you can find where it is mentioned in the book.

Click here to download a worksheet:  Floodland WS 10 – Then 5 – 45-49

Vocabulary

  1. brazenly               2.    curfew               3. meekly

4. porch                   5. immortal             6. loopy

First, match these definitions with the words above

  • strange, unusual, silly
  • do something without making any effort to hide it
  • a covered entrance
  • do something in a quiet, gentle way without complaining
  • living or lasting forever
  • a rule that says no-one is allowed outside, usually at night

Next, complete and add these examples to your vocabulary list (you could have a go at expanding them).

  • What a ____________ idea!
  • The  walked _____________ through the flower bed.
  • The _________-light
  • Three volunteers _____________ stepped forward.
  •  No-one is _______________.
  • A 9 o’clock ______________

https://youtu.be/iXZ2JiliuPw

Questions p. 45-49           Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

  1. Read page 45. What is it that makes the ruined buildings lethal to hang around?
  2.  Look at the top of page 46. How do people know when the curfew starts?
  3. Look at the middle of page 47. William tells Zoe a famous Bible story but changes the ending. Which story is it?
  4. Read the bottom of page 47. Why do you think Zoe smiles ‘uneasily’?
  5. Look at the bottom of page 48. What process is William describing ?
  6. How do the people react to William’s explanation about where the water is coming from?

Maths

These 5-a-day come in 4 levels of difficulty. Click on the word for that level of question. Platinum are the most challenging.

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Answers:

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Summer Term Week 6: Lesson 3 – Fractions of an amount
Click on the picture below to take you to the White Rose page.  Click on ‘Summer Term – Week 6’ then – Lesson 3 – Fractions of an amount.

Classroom Secrets

Tuesday 2nd June, 2020

Good morning all!

“Quote of the Day” –  Handwriting Practice 

Toni Morrison (1931-2009) was an American writer and academic who became one of the most famous novelists of her generation and winner of countless awards and honorary degrees from universities all around the world. In 1993 she became a Nobel laureate when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Toni Morrison‘s real name was Chloe but when she became a Catholic at the age of 12, she chose the baptismal name of Anthony, after St. Anthony of Padua and this became the nickname Toni.

“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”

English – Floodland – Then – Four – 40-44

Click here to download a worksheet: Floodland WS 8 – Then 4 – 40-44

Vocabulary

1.  oars                  2.  brought up short             3. living on borrowed time

4. limpet              5. precarious                           6. harbour

First, match these definitions with the words above

  1. to stop doing something because you’re surprised
  2. a pole with a flat end used when rowing a boat
  3. a place on the coast where ships can shelter
  4. not safe, not secure
  5. when something lasts longer than expected
  6. a shellfish that attaches itself to rocks

Next, complete and add these examples to your vocabulary list (you could have a go at expanding them).

  1. Mr Ledger was ______________________ by the spider on the whiteboard
  2. a pair of wooden ____________
  3. Sydney _______________ bridge
  4. Sophie balanced _____________ly on the ledge.
  5. Norwich was _________________________.
  6. clinging like a ____________

https://youtu.be/9EA6B2EBaPw

Questions p. 40-44             Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

1. Look at page 40. How does Dooby think Zoe can be useful to him? What does he want from her?

2. Where did Zoe find the oars?

3. Look at the bottom of page 41.. Read from ‘You’ve got brains..’ to ‘I’ll say that for them…’ What does Dooby mean when he says they’re ‘living on borrowed time’? What does he think is going to happen?

4. What’s going to happen to Spat and Munchkin and why?

5. Read to the bottom of page 43. Zoe finds herself almost liking Dooby even though he’s horrible. How do you think that happens?

Maths

These 5-a-day come in 4 levels of difficulty. Click on the word for that level of question. Platinum are the most challenging.

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Answers:

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Summer Term Week 6: Lesson 2 – Multiply mixed numbers by integers
Click on the picture below to take you to the White Rose page.  Click on ‘Summer Term – Week 6’ then – Lesson 2 – Multiply mixed numbers by integers                         
 Classroom Secrets

Monday 1st June, 2020

 Welcome back year 5! 🙂

 “Quote of the Day”

Handwriting Practice 

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 – 1273)or simply Rumi as he is known in Western culture was a poet, Islamic scholar, faqih and Sufi mystic who became one of the most famous and influential writer’s in the Islamic world and beyond. He has been described as the best-selling poet in the US, although the Western world only knows and understands a tiny fraction of his work.

The burial place of Rumi in Turkey

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

 Spelling Test – 4

 English – Floodland

Here is cover of Floodland. What is Zoe looking at in the distance? How do you think she feels? Does the cover show an event that takes place in the story?

Watch the videos below about Ely cathedral. One of them, you’ve seen before.

 

The pictures below are all famous English cathedrals or churches. 

The photographer has chosen certain weather a light to change how we feel when we look at the building. Think of an adjective; an emotion that goes with each one. What makes each picture feel that way?

Now re-read pages 12 and 19-20. Imagine you are Zoe in her boat and you’ve just woken up to the sight of Ely Cathedral on the horizon ‘floating on the sea’. Have a go at drawing what you see.

Ely Cathedral Poem

From your boat you can see the water lapping at the ground and at the buildings around the cathedral. You can see the ancient stones rising out of the waves and into the sky and in the centre, there’s the steeple of the Cathedral above everything and aiming for heaven. Think of adjectives or participle adjectives to describe each of the nouns below.

waves                         stone                        steeple

watching waves, dark waves, hungry waves, cunning waves, heartless waves, cold waves, waiting waves, patient waves, tireless waves, thirsty waves, whispering waves

Try to come up with at least 10 words to describe each noun. Remember that you are Zoe looking up at the cathedral, how do you feel about the water? How do you feel about the cathedral?

_________ waves, _________ waves, _________waves ……………..

Finally try some personification to tell us what the waves are doing. You’ll need a verb or verb phrase.

Watching waves, dark waves, thirsty waves waiting for me

Personification:

In case you’ve forgotten, personification is when we describe something as is it is a person or give it human things to do. Watching, waiting and being thirsty are human things but here they are used to describe the waves.

Now try the stone and the steeple. Zoe has been in her boat on the sea all night; she’s sick of the water but how does she feel about the cathedral?

Maths

These 5-a-day come in 4 levels of difficulty. Click on the word for that level of question. Platinum are the most challenging.

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Answers:

Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum

Summer Term Week 6: Lesson 1 – Multiply unit and non-unit fractions by integers
Click on the picture below to take you to the White Rose page.  Click on ‘Summer Term – Week 6’ then – Lesson 1 – Multiply unit and non-unit fractions by integers.