Year Six Sherlock Holmes Mindmap

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Over the next two weeks we are going to secure our knowledge of how to structure the first 15 lines of a short story.

Homework: Visit the Falcons Girls Sherlock Holmes page on our brilliant pupil wiki: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+Six+Holmes Do a little more research, and then create a second, full colour version of your Sherlock Holmes MindMap.

The 'strands':
* Sherlock
* Dr. Watson
* The author
* (If you're feeling clever) Deduction

Due: Thursday

Year 5 and 6 Spelling and Prose

Year Five
Spelling
Next week's spelling are 'words ending in a'. Test next Tuesday! Don't forget to complete the 'look-say-cover-write-check' sheet and write the example sentences.

Prose
Task: Please learn the words to the 'Comma Song'. We will be recording our own version of this classic tune next week! (Due: Next Tuesday)

Comprehension homework due in Wednesday

Year Six
Spelling
Your next spellings concern comprehension vocabulary. Test next Tuesday! Don't forget to complete the 'look-say-cover-write-check' sheet and write the example sentences.

Task: Please write a description of a monster's cave. Write 8 sentences. The challenge? Every sentence must contain a bracketing comma, e.g. The bat, who had lived in the cave for centuries, liked to hang about all evening.

Useful words:
* remember
* of course
* nearby
* there
* you see
* for example

Due: Wednesday

Don't forget your comprehension, too!

Year Five & Six Comprehension

Year Five
Please complete the 'Daydreamer' comprehension.

Due: Wednesday

Year Six
Please complete the 'Willie & the Bone' comprehension.

Due: Wednesday

Don't forget that tomorrow is your spelling test!

- Learn more about writing a brilliant short story in the London Day 11+ examinations at http://www.baldworm.co.uk

Year 5 and 6 Weekend Composition Homework

Year Five
Please create a colourful, neat version of one of your hand plans:
* Include your brainstorm
* Draw round your hand with a pencil
* Write in the plan with a pen

Use pencil crayons to decorate

Don't forget to name your work.

Keep it really neat - we'll be displaying this work in class.

Listen to the Year Five 'Fab Four' eduboo here.

Year Six
Please write an improved second draft of the 'Uncle Montague' story you wrote in Timed Writing. Don't forget to include plenty of description.

Learn more about planning a story here.

Due: Monday

Young Bond's Charlie Higson says...

Uncle Montague's Tales Of Terror by Chris Priestley

This one's for the kids. Written in an accessible, cod Victorian style it has a neat framing device. Edgar goes to stay with his uncle in the woods who proceeds to tell him a series of terrifying stories – all the while hinting at some dark secrets of his own. Rest assured, the stories, which all feature a child in some way, are genuinely scary and unsettling and really do get under your skin. They certainly frightened my 10-year-old when I read them to him.

...and Year Six will start reading it on Thursday!

Year Five and Six Spelling and Prose Style: Assessment of Punctuation

Prose Style
Year Five and Six sat a brief assessment of their punctuation, based on this image:


Task: 1. Please write a second draft - have a 'second go' - at the task. Write no more than 15 lines. Remember, I am looking for brilliant, varied punctuation.

2. Please complete the Bald Worm 'self-assessment for self-improvement' sheet.

Spelling
Spelling tests are held on Tuesdays.

Year Five
Your spelling words can be revised at Spelling City. The adding the suffixes 'tion' and 'sion' words can be found here.

Year Six
The 'soft c' revision words can be found at here at Spelling City.

Welcome Back!

It is a new term at West London's Most Creative Preparatory School! We've got a great year in front of us - including the School Play, Residential Week and literally hundreds of fantastic lessons - and we can't wait to get started!

Homework:
Both Year Five and Six were taking part in a 'jigsaw' lesson this morning.

Task: Write up your notes as a one-page mind-map/poster, featuring everything you revised in the lesson about how to tackle a comprehension paper.

Due: Wednesday.