A book by one of our featured authors, David Walliams, is the stimulus for this week’s

English work. Watch and listen to David himself reading an extract from his latest book,

The Beast of Buckingham Palace: https://youtu.be/C6lzb1UUjhA

Monday 22nd June.

LO: To de-bug vocabulary.

Word Best guess Dictionary definition

Instigated

Sanctuary

Perimeter

Medieval

Oblivion

1. Complete the table above. Use a dictionary to check the

meaning.

2. Write some interesting sentences for each of the words.

Use your best handwriting, ensuring that you form your

ascenders and descenders correctly.

3. ‘The palace had seen better days.’

Explain in your own words what you think this phrase means.

Give examples from the text to justify your answer.

Monday 22nd June.

LO:

Tuesday 23rd June.

LO: To answer a range of comprehension questions. Retrieval Focus.

1. Why didn’t Alfred feel like an ‘ordinary’ boy? (1 mark)

2. Why was it a little odd that Alfred would one day rule over the whole kingdom?

(2 marks)

Vocabulary focus.

3. ‘Instead, the King’s personal army, the Royal Guards, enforced the

rule of law.’

Which of the following is the most accurate description of what they

did?

Tick ONE. (1 mark)

A. Allowed people to break the law if they wanted to.

B. Made sure that people obeyed the law.

C. Created new laws that people had to follow.

4.

Explain in your own words why these two sentences are in italics and

bold.

(2 marks)

Inference focus.

5. True or false? When he becomes king, the Prince will become the first

ever ‘King Alfred.’

Explain your answer. (2 marks)

6. Why do you think all the food was in tins and that they stored enough

to last ‘a hundred years or more?’ (2 marks)

Wednesday 24th June.

LO: To use relative clauses in sentences.

*if you have your CGP homework book, you can also complete pages 16 and 17 if you haven’t already done them.

Thursday 25th June.

LO: To create my own sentences that include relative clauses.

Yesterday, you practised writing sentences that included relative

clauses. Your task for today is to choose five sentences from the David

Walliams extract and re-write the sentences to include a relative

clause. Try to use the five relative pronouns that you used yesterday

(who, which, when, where, whose.) You can also use ‘that’.

EG: ‘The boy’s sad face could often be seen at his bedroom window, which

was at the very top of the house.’

Friday 26th June.

LO: To write a non-chronological report.

David Walliams was this week’s featured author and the setting

of the story was Buckingham Palace.

Your final challenge this week is to write a short non-

chronological report about Buckingham Palace.

You can use your exercise book or the template below.

Remember to include:

An introduction with rhetorical questions

(EG: Have you ever wondered how many bedrooms Buckingham

Palace has?)

Subheadings

(EG: When was Buckingham Palace built?)

Relative clauses

Images

Concluding paragraph

22.06.2020

Complete the sums below.

These are the answers but they are all mixed up! If your answer is not one of

the answers in this box then you need to have another go.

109, 937 84, 270 143, 605

170, 516 97, 000 163, 496

42, 984 151, 010 160, 189

100, 938 145, 847 80, 383

23.06.2020

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2.

3. Two classes collected marbles. One class had 33, 672 marbles, the second class had

kk 26, 820 marbles.

a) How many marbles did both classes have?

b) Find the difference in marbles between the two classes.

Mo’s number:

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Alex’s number:

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Total of Mo and Alex’s number:

4.

Extension

Create your own word problems for the calculations below.

1. 44, 290 + 24, 909 =

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2. 67, 145 + 56, 174 =

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3. 33, 814 + 32, 245 =

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a) b)

24.06.2020

25.06.2020

Help the Flying Machine Company find the total costs for the different team’s

orders. You will need to look at the order list, see what items each individual

team needs, find the items individual costs and then calculate each team’s

total costs. There is a table on the next page for you to write down your

answers.

Price list for items:

Whose order cost the most?

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Whose order cost the least?

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Bonus questions: What is the total amount of all the orders

together?

Hint: It is somewhere between £50,000 - £55,000

Team Total order cost One Plane To Rule Them All!

High Fliers

Sea Beast

The Conjurers

Flying High

Away With The Wind

26.06.2020

Mrs Homer and Miss Selby need your help to see if they can prove

Mr Hartney wrong. The more ways you can prove him wrong, the better!

Mr Hartney

The only way to make

54, 902 is by calculating

32, 479 + 22, 423.

22.06.2020

Last week you drew the life cycle of a mammal. This week you are going

to draw and label the life cycle of a ladybird. Include the words in

bold below in your cycle.

Many insects have four stages in their life cycle:

egg or the unborn stage

larva – young stage

pupa – inactive (no feeding) stage

adult stage

The life cycle of a ladybird

23.06.2020

Read/watch the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. What is the entire

story about?

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Write your own Very Hungry Caterpillar story changing the food that it

eats each day. It can eat anything you like!

Add illustrations to your story.

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24.06.2020

Look in your garden or go for a walk. Take pictures of (or sketch) as

many different insects as you can find. Remember that a spider is not an

insect! Can you find out about one of the insects you found and create a fact

file about it?

25.06.2020

Learn about Mason Bates’ A Bao A Qu from his Anthology of Fantastic Zoology!

Author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay explores how his music can inspire creative

ideas and powerful pictures in our imaginations: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-

pieces/ten-pieces-at-home/zjy3382

Imagine your own mythical creature.

Draw, colour and name it.

NAME: _____________________________________________________

Using household items (cutlery, pans, tubs, pens and pencils, paper, elastic

bands, keys), compose a piece of music to represent your creature.

You only need to compose a short phrase then you can repeat it in various ways

according to how your creature behaves e.g. slower, louder, in a different

order.

You could perform your composition for a member of your family.

26.06.2020

Now you have created your own mythical creature, you should spread the word

about it!

Record yourself completing a news report about your mythical creature. You will

need to consider the different elements of your creature and how you can make

your story interesting enough for people to watch and listen. You can even use

your sketch from yesterday to show people what it looks like.

Once you have filmed your news report, post it into your portfolio on ClassDojo

so your teacher can see your exciting story!

Answer the following questions. You should consider your answers as points to

mention during your report.

Where was the creature found?

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Describe its physical features.

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Does it have any special abilities (i.e. flying, fire breathing etc)? If

so, what are they?

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Are there things you need to warn people about if they were to approach

it? If so, what are they?

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What type of personality does it have (cheerful, friendly, aggressive

etc.)?

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What is it known to eat?

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Does it have any strengths or weaknesses?

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Use the next page to write a script for your report.

Good evening, this is ___________________ News reporting to you live from _______________. Today’s

top story is about a ______________________________________________________________________

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This is ____________________________ signing off for _________________________ News. Goodnight.