Year Six Magazine Work - P.G. Wodehouse's The Drones Club first draft

L.O. To understand the importance of class in comedy

Homework: In class we created plans for a story set in P.G. Wodehouse's Drones club.
Your task tonight is to write the first draft of this story. Remember to include plenty of Wodehouse slang! Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Don't forget to visit the pupil wiki here for useful links and further information, and to download a copy of the example plan we created in class.

Year 5 Prose Style - The Bracketing Comma

L.O. To revise the use of the bracketing comma for bracketing off names, interjections & questions

As you know, the bracketing comma is the key to understanding the comma. In class we revised the use of the bracketing comma.

Homework: In our comprehension lesson we read about an argument between a rude customer and a shop assistant.

Write your own arguments between a rude customer and a shop assistant as a playscript - the challenge is to include a bracketing comma in every piece of dialogue. Write 1 side of A4.

Use a gel pen to show the bracketing comma; highlight interjections with a colour highlighter.

Click here if you need to revise the layout of a playscript.

Year Six Magazine Work - P.G. Wodehouse's The Drones Club

Click here for useful links and information on the fsg pupil wiki.

Homework: Write a dialogue between two members of the Drones Club and a servant about a prank (a trick) on a third member of the club. Write 1 sides of A4, and use as much Wodehousian slang as you can! Remember, the Drones Club members are twits; the servants are the smart ones!

An example opening:

“Hullo, old bean!” cried Pongo.
“Oh, how are you, my good man?” enquired Catsmeat
Pongo lowered his voice: “I’ve bad blood with Lord Emsworth. That blighter gave me a five shilling fine for stealing a policeman’s helmet! I thought the old poop was going to throw me in the jug!”

Don't forget to check the punctuation of your direct speech!Feeling clever? Try to include semi-colons and colons as part of your prose.

Year 4 - Story with a Dilemma

L.O. To understand the meaning of the term 'dilemma'

In class we read the first part of the story 'A Bad Thing to Do', and improvised some possible endings to the story.

Homework: Write your own conclusion to the story. Remember to write in the first person. Think about:

What happened when 'you' did the bad thing?
How did you feel when you were doing it?
How did you feel after you had done it?
Did anything happen then to make you feel even worse about what you had done?

Don't forget to include indented direct speech in your story.

Feeling clever? We'll be focussing on including characterisation in our writing this term. Click here and here to learn more about characterisation, and include some shown feelings. Extra credit to the girls who then annotate the shown feelings using a gel pen!

Year 5 Comprehension Homework - Summarising Paragraphs

In class we revised how to summarising a passage paragraph-by-paragraph.

Homework: Please complete the 'Shop Girl' comprehension passage. Click here for useful links and downloads from our pupil wiki.

Year Five Narrative Homework - Planning From A Picture

This half-term we are going to focus on planning under timed conditions.

Homework: Create three further plans based on the pictures you were given in class, using the 'planning moutain' method. Make sure you plan relevant stories!

There are useful links and downloads at our pupil wiki. Click here.

Year Five Comprehension Homework

Welcome back, Year Five!

Our class reader this term is Montmorency by Eleanor Updale. Learn more by visiting the Montmorency website - click here.

You can find details about your comprehension homework in the 'comprehension' section of the Year Five area on the FSG pupil wiki.