Year Six Comprehension: Oliver Twist North London Girls' Schools' Consortium-Style Comprehension Paper

Bald Worm has a treat for you! I've created a comprehension in the style of the new North London Girls' Schools' Consortium paper. Download a copy from here.

Task: Please complete the 'Oliver Twist' comprehension
Due: Wednesday.

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Year 5 Comprehension: P-E with Jane Blonde

We've begun our spy project!

Homework: Complete the 'Jane Blonde' comprehension. Stuck on a question? Visit Bald Worm's comprehension blog: http://bit.ly/comprehension
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Click here to visit the fantastic 'Jane Blonde' site!">

We have been learning about P-E-Eing all over the page!

P.S. Spelling Test on Tuesday! Revise the words ending in u here.

Due: Wednesday

Year 5 Prose Style: Dialogue

Prose StylePlease write a conversation (not a story) between two girls on a Residential Camp. One is telling a scary story; the other wants her to be quiet so she can go to sleep.

You could begin like this:

"Please be quiet," whimpered Sally.

Note: Please don't use the names of girls in the class!

Feeling clever
Break up the speech like this:

"Oh!" said Sally. "I didn't think of that!"

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Due: Wednesday

Spellings
Please learn the 'words ending with u' spellings. Don't forget to play some Spelling City words to help you learn

Test: Next Tuesday

Learn More about Our School & Alpha Plus Education

Want to learn more about your school? Visit the Alpha Plus Education website - and look carefully at the pictures, as you may just see some familiar faces!

Year Five Composition: Build a Spy Base!

We are going to write suspense scenes set in your secret spy base. Learn more about suspense here.



Novelists often use models to help them 'picture' a location in their imagination (a bit like playing in a doll house!); I would like you to design and build a secret hq for a bad guy.





Build a model of a secret hq. Here are some of the things you could include:

* Banks of computer screens
* A giant map of the world
* Secret doors or compartments
* Torture chamber (yuck!)
* Sharks!
* Henchmen/goons
* Evil pets
* Rockets
* Dwarf servant
* Desk
* Armchair with buttons

How you build the model is up to you! Here are some of the materials you might choose to use:
* Cardboard boxes painted over
* Sticky-back plastic
* Wood
* Paper mashed and glued
* Washing up bottles
* Model Paint

This video will give you some ideas (don't make Tracy Island, though! Just use the same techniques!)



Hint: Design the hq on paper before you start to construct it!

Be as imaginative as you can! Bring your model into class next Thursday! We are going to base a series of stories in this location, so do a great job! There will be a small prize for the best model!

We'll photograph the models and stick them on the pupil wiki for the world to enjoy, and then write scenes and stories set in this location!

Due: Try to bring in next Wednesday, but if you need until a week on Monday that will be fine.

Here is one of the bases from last year.

P.S. Learn all about our suspense techniques:

Bald Worm Shortlisted for Award Thanks to Brilliant Work by Falcons Girls!

Thanks to Mrs Mannan's kind efforts, Bald Worm's blog has been shortlisted for an Edublog award - for best teacher blog! These awards are given to the best educational blogs in the world, so this is a fantastic tribute to all the brilliant work you girls have been doing in class and for homework: the judges were clearly impressed with your podcasts and videos!

The winner is decided on which blog gets the most votes, so if you have a moment please visit http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-teacher-edublog-2008/ and vote for your favourite :) You'll make a little bald worm very happy...

We're going to continue to use Web 2.0 technologies - wikis, podcasts & blogs - so you can share your creativity with the world, like our this Year 6 pupil podcast and these Year Five videos.



Next year, let's see if we can win best podcasts, video and pupil wiki!

The Falcons 2009 School Play is...

Further details can be found on our pupil wiki page: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/School+Play+2009

Half-term Holiday Homework

What a term we've had! Year 5 have learnt all about planning a story, suspense and action techniques, and been introduced to 11+-style comprehensions; Year 6 have been revising the structure of the first 15 lines of a short story and key characterisation techniques, and learnt about Sherlock Holmes and the writing of Charles Dickens. We've learnt about kinesthetic and musical learning techniques, and used podcasts and Animoto videos to share our creativity with the world! Best of all, we're beginning to connect, create and collaborate with pupils on the other side of the world!

Next half-term should be even more exciting! Year 5 will learning about writing longer descriptions, and be taking part in their first global collaborative flat classroom project - Books Go Global; Year 6 will complete their preparation for the 11+ examinations.

Year 5 holiday homework can be found here; Year 6 holiday homework here. Don't forget there are lists of 'great reads' in Bald Worm's reading lists.

Have a great holiday!

Year Six Have Done Brilliantly in the 11+ Exams!

Wow! Well done, Year Six! You've done brilliantly in the 11+ exams - and you deserve nothing less for all your hard work and creativity! Have a fantastic weekend!



Bald Worm says: You have all done so well! Everyone at the Falcons is extremely proud of you!