Half-Term Homework

Year Six
You must know by heart all of your lines, words and cues for the 2010 school play.

Don't forget that Mr Allan has set a Macbeth essay, too.

You'll be starting a Shakespeare research project on your return to school next Monday.

Year Five
The Half-term homework comes in three parts:

1. Ensuring songs and cues for the school play are known by heart

2. Reading at least one book from the enclosed ‘Real Life’ reading list.

3. Learning the spellings attached – including ‘The Grumpy Examiner Frowns…’ common
errors lists – for a ‘bumper test on our return to school.

I hope you have a relaxing break, and look forward to seeing you all again on 7th June for the School Play, Residential Week and our new English unit on ‘Real-life Stories’, where we will be revising key planning techniques and focussing on developing our use of connectives.

Year 5 Half-term Holiday Homework

There are three parts to your holiday homework:

1. Revision Next term we are going to be focussing on characterisation - the skill of making your fictional characters seem like 'real people'.

I've set up a revision page on the pupil wiki. Please read and revise the key characterisation skills.

2. Write the French Dog story redraft. Write 1 1/2 sides. Click here to download another copy of the task from box.net.

3. Attempt the language comprehension - I'm not too fussed about the score (although I'm sure it will be high!) - what I'm looking for is your use of our annotation techniques.

Don't forget that there are tons of useful tips at the comprehension advice blog, and loads of tasks to attempt at http://www.baldworm.co.uk; feel free to email baldworm@baldworm.co.uk if you would like some more!

Bring all work in on the Monday after we come back from our French trip. Click here to add your thoughts and ideas to the French Residential Trip Wiki.