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Year Six Half-Term Homework

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Year Five Summer Half-Term Holiday Homework

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Year Five half-term homework is in three parts:

1. Make sure you know all your lines for the school play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 'by heart';

2. Write the story based on the picture in your pack; write it in your blue book in your 'best' handwriting;


Remember, I'm looking for you to open with a 'perfect paragraph'!

3. Complete the 'Adam Worth' comprehension.

4. Oh, and please enter this week's School of Puns, too!

Have a great week!

Year Five: Second Half of your Montmorency Story

In class, we wrote the first 1/2 page of a Montmorency story.

For homework, I would like you to complete this story - making sure you include plenty of suspense.

Revise our supsense techniques by watching these videos:

LPPlus2012: Olympic Blogging!

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Year Five homework
Please imagine you are an 100 metre sprinter from Croatia. Write a paragraph about how you feel as you win the gold medal. Write 6-8 lines

Try to include all of our 'perfect paragraph' techniques.

Due: Tuesday.

Year Five: Setting the Scene using a full range of punctuation

Imagine a jewellery shop, with a window full of precious gems...

Describe the shop as if you were looking through the window.

Your challenge is to include:
* a semi-colon;
* a colon;
* a dash
* a bracket

Tip: Make sure you 'zoom in' on individual jewels and gems!

Write this up on your Kidblog.

Due: Tomorrow.

Finish First Draft of Your Goodbye Letter & Enter The School of Puns

You have two pieces of homework for the weekend:

1. Finish writing up your 'goodbye' letter on your kidblog.

2. Enter the School of Puns - write your caption on your Kidblog & send it to be published.

Due: Monday

Year Five: Writing an Escape Story

Please complete your handwritten first draft of your Escape story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Due: Monday.

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Writing an Escape story: Setting the Scene Task

We are going to write 'Escape!' stories on Friday, inspired by Montmorency



Task: Write a description - not a story - of the inside of your prison cell. Write 10 lines - and use all of the five senses, and a full range of descritive techniques.

Please write this description on your Kidblog; due on Friday.

Year Five Comprehension

Please begin your 'Thief in Amsterday' comprehension for this week; we'll talk through this on Tuesday if you have any problems.

Due: Friday

Year Six Goodbye Letter First Draft

Please write the first draft of your goodbye letter, using the frame provided.

Make sure you use:
* Semi-colon
* Colon
* Dash
* Bracket

Due: Tomorrow.

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Year Five Weekend Homework

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Advice on how to do this here:

Year Six Goodbye Letters

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What would you say to yourself if you came face-to-face with the three-year-old you?

Please write your first draft on your Kidblog: http://kidblog.org/FalconsGirls/

Write 250-300 words.

Year Five Describing a Character

We have been learning to describe a character, by:
* Zooming in on a detail
* Using a simile
* Including interesting adjectives

Task: Describe 4 members of your family. For each description, write 3-4 lines, and include a simile. Be kind!

Due: Friday.

Year Five and Six: Sewers & the Highwayman

Year Five
Please complete your 'Lost in the Sewer' story.

You must write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Don't forget to include description in the second half of the story, too.

Due: Tuesday.

Year Six


Please create any drawings/cut out any silhouettes you require to complete your 'Highwayman' animation on Tuesday.

Due: Tuesday

Have a great Bank Holiday!

Year Five & Six Homework: We've Entered the 'School of Puns' Cartoon Caption Competition

We've entered the third School of Puns cartoon caption competition here.

Year Five
Please write a description of a sewer. Make sure you use all of our descriptive techniques. Write 10-12 lines.

Due: Friday

Year Six

On Friday, we're going to create our own Highwayman animation.

In preparation, please find as many pictures/images of Highwaymen & horses that you can; we'll need these to inspire our animation!

Due: Friday