St Paul's Catholic Primary School
A Voluntary Academy
Aspire not to have more but to be more – St Oscar Romero
Good morning! Here are a few questions to help you start your day!
Let's get on with our 192 tests!
Maths - Year 5
LO: To multiply 3 digit numbers by 2 digits.
Maths - Year 6
LO: To calculate the area of a triangle #2
English
LO: To collect quotations
1) Read the prologue and zeppelin newspaper report from yesterday, again.
2) Imagine you are a reporter trying to find out what happened when the zeppelin crashed. You need to ask some witnesses about what they saw. Think of some questions you could ask some 'witnesses' (it doesn't matter who they are at this point). Use the document here as a guide to how to collect your questions.
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4) Now, using what you know about the crash from reading the prologue, imagine what the witnesses could say when they answer your questions. Write their answers in the speech bubbles.
Extension:To take this further, you could record a little play with the witnesses being asked the questions to answer. Or, you could use toys as puppets to 'act' it out!
English Lesson #2
LO: To write quotations
1) Look at the synonyms for said, on the document below - some sound like they are from story while some sound far more formal. Which ones do you think would be most likely to be used in a newspaper report?
3) Now, watch this video of a witness statement and choose part of it to write down as a quotation.
Now, what are 4 different ways you could write it?
Use the examples from the second document above, to help you with structure and punctuation.