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Friday 2nd July 2021

Thursday 1st July 2021

Wednesday 30th June 2021

Tuesday 29th June 2021

 

Now we have read through the PowerPoint together, you should complete the worksheet below on Relative Clauses.

Wednesday 31st March 2021

Today, we are going to have another lesson on Sikhism. You should read the PowerPoint below called ‘Sikhism lesson 2,’ which will explain to you everything you need to know about today’s activity.  

Tuesday 30th March 2021

For the next couple of days, we are going to be doing some RE. You should read through the link below where there is a task for you to complete.

Monday 29th March 2021

You are going to continue writing your own letter to Lunar trying to persuade her to use our tours for future trips to Mars. You have already written the first 2 paragraphs. We are now going to look at writing the final 3. These will be...

3 - That we have already built a Spaceport near Middleton so these trips are all ready to go. 

4 - What the hotels are like. 

5 - A final conclusion about why Lunar should consider us. 

On the live lesson, we will look at an example of what these paragraphs could look like. You can also use the persuasive letter we looked at on Thursday to help you structure this.

Try and also include the following in your success criteria…

Conjunctions

Prepositions

Modal Verbs and Adverbs of Possibility

Relative Clauses

Fronted Adverbials

Cursive Handwriting

Spelling

We have already had a big focus on conjunctions so try and show these off in your work as much as you can. 

Friday 26th March 2021

You are now going to write your own letter to Lunar trying to persuade her to use our tours for future trips to Mars. We are going to write the first 2 paragraphs today. These will be…

1 – A persuasive introduction explaining that you would like her to use our company.

2 – A paragraph explaining everything we have done in this Adventure and how knowledgeable we are about space.

On the live lesson, we will look at an example of what this could look like. You can also use the persuasive letter we looked at yesterday to help you structure this.

Try and also include the following in your success criteria…

Conjunctions

Prepositions

Modal Verbs and Adverbs of Possibility

Relative Clauses

Fronted Adverbials

Cursive Handwriting

Spelling

We have already looked at using conjunctions in a letter yesterday so remember to use yesterday’s activity to help you.

Thursday 25th March 2021

We have come to the end of our Adventure and need to write a letter to Lunar to persuade her to use our company for future trips to Mars. Before we can do this, we need to understand how a letter is structured. This will need to be persuasive to try and make her understand why she should use our company for the tours. Let’s have a look at an example of a persuasive letter below related to a different topic…

Now you have read the text, you might have noticed it contains a variety of conjunctions. Conjunctions are really important in persuasive letters as we need to be able to extend our sentences. Have a go at the conjunction activity below, where you are putting the correct conjunction in the missing gap. All the different conjunctions are at the bottom. Do not use any more than once.

Wednesday 24th March 2021

Today, you are going to write a description of a person in a spacesuit. This needs to be a detailed paragraph and should be based on the picture below. You should open the link called 'spaceman character description,' which will give you more information about a spacesuit. 

Friday 5th March 2021

We are now going to finish our diary. You should open the link called ‘Diary - 2nd lesson’ which will tell you everything you need to know about how to finish the diary.

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Today, we are going to travel the Arctic Circle and write a Setting Description about this. You should open the link called ‘Setting Description’ which will tell you all about today’s activity.

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Today, we are going to learn more about the Moon as this is going to relate to the Writing we do tomorrow. You should open the link called ‘moon,’ which will tell you everything you need to know about today’s activity.

Monday 1st March 2021

Today, we are going to continue writing our leaflet about the eight planets. You should open the link called ‘Planets,’ which will tell you all about today’s activity.

Friday 26th February 2021

 

Today, we are going to be writing a leaflet about the Planets in the Solar System, well four of them at least! You should open the link below called 'Planets,' which will tell you everything you need to know about today's lesson. 

Thursday 25th February 2021

Today, we are going to learn all about the Planets in the Solar System as we will be writing a leaflet about them tomorrow. You should open the link called ‘Planets’ which contains everything you need to know about today’s activity.

Wednesday 24th February 2021

Today, we are going to continue writing our Newspaper (the second and third paragraph). You should read through the link below called ‘Wednesday Presentation’ which will tell you all about today’s activity.

Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Today, we are going to be writing a Newspaper Report about the news we received yesterday about Lunar landing on Mars. You should read through ‘presentation 1’ and ‘presentation 2’ which will tell you all about today’s activity.

Monday 22nd February 2021

Today, we are going to start our new Adventure, which is called Space 2121. You should first of all read through the ‘Introduction slides,’ which will tell you what this Adventure is going to be about. When you have done this, you need think of a name for your space company as well as design a logo for it. You should do this on the worksheet called ‘Space 2121 Name and Logo.’ As this is also taking place in 100 years time, you need to think about what life will be like then. Using the link called ‘What is life like now’ you should come up with some ideas of what these things might be like in 100 years time. You might want to write down your ideas but you might prefer to draw them instead.

Friday 12th February 2021

Today is our last day of learning about The Tudors! Today’s writing activity will be an Editing lesson related to our topic so you should open the link called ‘Editing lesson,’ which will tell you everything about today’s activity.

Thursday 11th February 2021

We have an exciting Writing lesson today, where we are going to be writing some instructions. Open the link called Thursday presentation, which will you everything you need to know about today’s lesson.

Wednesday 9th February 2021

Today, we going to be looking at writing instructions. You should open the link called ‘Wednesday Presentation,’ which will explain everything you need to know about today’s activity.

Tuesday 9th February 2021

Today, we are going to finish writing our diary, pretending we are Edward VI. You should read the PowerPoint below, which will explain everything you need to know about today’s activity.  

Monday 8th February 2021

Today, we are going to start writing a diary, pretending we are a Tudor King. You should open the link called ‘Monday Presentation’ which will tell you all you need to know about today’s activity.  

Friday 5th February 2021

Today, we are going to learn a bit more about the Tudor Monarchs that are missing from our timeline. You should open the link called ‘Friday Presentation’ which explains everything you need to know about today’s activity.

Thursday 4th February 2021

Today we are going to start looking at how to write a Diary as we will be writing our own next week. You should open the link called ‘Thursday Presentation’ which contains more information about this as well as today’s activity.

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Today, we are going to have the final lesson of writing our Non Chronological Report. This will be about Henry VIII’s sixth wife. You should open the link called Tuesday Presentation which will tell you everything you need to know about today’s activity.

Monday 1st February 2021

Today, we are going to continue writing our Non Chronological Report. This will be about Henry VIII’s 5th wife. You should open the link called ‘Monday Presentation’ which explains everything you need to know about today’s lesson.

Friday 30th January 2021

Today, we are going to be writing about Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. You should read the presentation called ‘Friday Presentation,’ which will explain everything you need to do today.  

Thursday 28th January 2021

Today, we are going to write the next part of our Non Chronological Report. This will be about Henry’s third wife. You should open the link called ‘Thursday Presentation’ where it will tell you everything you need to do today.

Wednesday 27th January 2021

Today, we are going to continue writing our Non Chronological Report where we will be writing a paragraph about Anne Boleyn. Read through the presentation called ‘Wednesday presentation,’ which will tell you everything you need to know about today’s lesson.  

Tuesday 26th January 2021

Today, we are going to write the first paragraph of our Non Chronological Report. You should click on the link called ‘Tuesday Presentation’ which will explain everything you need to know about today’s lesson.

Monday 25th January 2021

 

Today, we are going to be looking at a new text, which is Sleep-Overs by Jaqueline Wilson. You should click the presentation below called ‘Monday Presentation’ where you will find the first chapter of the text and all the information you need to know about today’s activity.

Friday 22nd January 2021

Today, we are going to do some research about Henry VIII’s wives. After all, he had six of them altogether! We are doing this because we are going to do a piece of writing about them next week. Read through the PowerPoint below called ‘Henry VIII wives research,’ where it will tell you everything you need to do.

Thursday 21st February 2021

Today, we are going to do our 2nd home learning Editing lesson. This will be based on a diary of a Tudor Maid. Firstly, you should read through the PowerPoint called ‘Editing,’ which explains what we are going to be doing today. You will also find the ‘Diary example’ on the link below, which you need to read through too. Once you have done this, there are some questions to answer about the diary. You will find these on the link called ‘WAGOLL questions’ and these should be answered in full.

Wednesday 20th January 2021

 

Today, we are going to write our commentary for the Jousting event we have planned. All the details about what to do are on the PowerPoint below called 'Jousting.' You can use all the other resources from this week to help you do this. Try and make these really exciting, after all it was one of the biggest Tudor sports of its time!

Tuesday 19th January 2021

Today, we are going to be looking at the well-known Tudor sport called Jousting. You should read all about the sport in the PowerPoint called ‘Jousting.’ After you have done this, you should come up with a plan for a piece of Writing that you will do tomorrow. The writing will be a Commentary of a Jousting event. All the details are in the PowerPoint and you can use the ‘Jousting Commentary Plan’ link to help you put your plan together.  

Monday 18th January 2021

 

This week, we are going to look at how to write a commentary. You should read the PowerPoint below called ‘Commentary PowerPoint’ where you will learn a bit more about how ‘talk’ plays a huge part when writing one. There is also a commentary example for you to read through on the link called ‘Match Transcript.’ After you have read this, open the link called ‘Commentary Questions’ and answer these based on what you have read.

Friday 15th January 2021

Today, we are going to do our first home learning editing lesson. This will be based on a piece of writing (a letter) from our current Adventure which has been given an E3 in the marking (it will need to be taught again). You are going to be the teacher today and are going to think about how the work could be changed. Have a look at the ‘Editing lesson’ link below which will explain everything you need to do. There is also a link of the ‘letter example’ which was the original piece of work that was given the E3.

Thursday 14th January 2021

Today, we are going to write an Advert for the Tudor House we designed yesterday. You should read through the PowerPoint from the link below, which will explain everything you have do. Remember to use all the resources we have used this week to help you.

                          Wednesday 13th January 2021

 

Later this week, we will be writing an Advert to persuade someone to buy a Tudor House. Before we do this though, we need to learn more about them. Read the PowerPoint below called ‘tudor houses.’ Once you have done this, you need to use this information to design your own Tudor House. You should draw a picture of this and write a little description about its features. Use the link called ‘tudor design sheet’ to do this. 

Tuesday 12th January 2021

This week, we are going to be looking at Adverts. You should read the ‘advert example’ and answer the ‘advert questions’ about it.  This will help us write our own advert later this week.  

Monday 11th January 2021

Today, we are going to finish our Newspaper Report about the Battle of Bosworth. Read through the PowerPoint below as it has some information to help you. You might also want to go back to Friday’s lesson and use the links from that to help you as well.

Friday 8th January 2021

Today, we are going to write a Newspaper Report about the Battle of Bosworth. You will find all the information about what to do on the link ‘Rise of Tudors, Battle of Bosworth.’ There is also a link to the Usain Bolt text we looked at yesterday, which you can use to help you structure this. We are going to do this over 2 days so only do the introduction and the first paragraph today. The other paragraphs we will finish on Monday, today is more learning about the Battle and making a start to the report. 

Thursday 7th January 2021

For Writing today, we are going to have a look at the features of a Newspaper Report. We will be writing our own next lesson so today we are going to think about what a good one looks like. Below is an example of a Newspaper Report about Usain Bolt (first page only). There are also some slides that have 6 questions that you should answer about the Newspaper Report.