Dosbarth Garth

Home learning

Week commencing 6th July

2020

Numeracy Task 1

Warm up: Practice your times tables using the Hit the button game.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

LO: Subtract numbers using whole numbers and decimals

When using column subtraction for decimals, use the same principles:

• locate the position of the decimal point in any whole numbers (11 = 11.0)

• line up the decimal points and put a decimal point in the answer space

• work from right to left

For subtraction, you must also remember to borrow when the top number in a column is smaller than the bottom number.

Let's have a go with 9 - 7.49

The decimal point in 9 goes to the right of the number, since 9 is a whole number.

You need to fill the gaps after the decimal with zeroes when you're subtracting - so 9 becomes 9.00.

* ** *** 5684-265= 22.33-12.55= 785.32-56.63= 4127-298= 45.55+22.65= 125.36-36.25= 7489-324= 56.45+12.36= 453.69-52.35= 4795-245= 78.23+56.56= 256.36-78.63= 4152-478= 78.23+12.36= 458.35-232.65= 7848-748= 99.32+58.36= 236.32-22.36= 1202-475= 123.56+58.96= 92.253-12.56= 7823-959= 457.36+89.25= 45.54-3.36= 1248-562= 453.25+89.36= 232.56-23.326= 9825-745= 785.32+56.63= 982.36-2.3568= 21454-415= 125.36+36.325= 42.549-0.56= 45879-1248= 453.69+52.35= 45.236+2.56= 47925-2145= 256.36+78.63= 23.324+4.56= 98749-6985= 458.32+132.65= 99.654+22.356= Challenge: If you don’t have access to a printer just work out the answers and write the colour next to it.

Numeracy task 2: Area of a triangle

If you know how to calculate the area of a rectangle (length x height), you can find the area of a triangle with no problems!

The area of a triangle is always half the area of a rectangle that has the same height and width.

This is because a triangle can always fit into a rectangle twice, no matter the shape of the triangle.

So the formula we could use to find the area of a triangle is:

(base x height) ÷ 2

You can also write the formula as:

½ x base x height

They both give you the exact same answer since multiplying by a half is the same as dividing by 2.

Example 1:

Use the formula ½ x base x height to find the area of the triangle above.

First let's multiply the measurements for the base and the height together:

12 x 12 = 144

Now let's multiply that by ½:

144 x ½ = 72 m²

So the area of the triangle is 72 m².

Badger maths: Logical thinking

Literacy: Debate

We live in a world where we communicate with others all the time. Debating is a more formal way of communicating. It builds confidence and self-esteem in people.

If we can speak publicly and convey our ideas and thoughts coherently and passionately, we have a valuable tool that can aid us in our public, private and future lives.

Politicians in the House of Commons spend a lot of time debating what should be made law and other issues affecting the country. I have included a debate below written based on the question

**Are Premier league footballers paid too much?** I would like you to read this example and look at the questions below. Pick one of these questions or think of your own to write your own debate.

« You need to plan out your debate first by researching facts to add to it. Once you have planned this out you can then begin to write your debate.

v Are premier league footballers paid too much? v Should we test on animals for medicine purposes? v Should zoos be banned? v Should we wear uniform to school? v Is it better to be a child or an adult? v Is it ever right to lie?

Example debate:

Are Premier League footballers paid too much?

The Premier League began in 1992, taking over from the old first division. With money from Sky Television, so began the era of multi-million pound transfers and huge wages for the players. The highest earning Premier League footballer is Alexis Sanchez of Manchester United, who is alleged to earn £500,000 a week. Do

they deserve this amount of money, or should it be spent elsewhere?

It could be said that footballers have to train hard to keep themselves physically fit and to constantly improve their skills; therefore they cannot eat and drink whatever they like and have to keep to a strict regime. Many would say that this sacrifice means that they deserve to be paid well.

On the other hand, hard-working and vital professionals such as nurses earn approximately £400 - £500 a week. This means that they would have to work for 20 years, to earn what Sanchez earns in a week. Is this fair?

Nevertheless, footballers make a decision to be footballers, just as nurses decide to be nurses (knowing what the wages are). Footballers provide entertainment for millions of people around the world, who pay money to watch them and for memorabilia. As a result of this, the football clubs earn millions of pounds in profit, so why shouldn’t the footballers take a large share of this?

Looking at it another way, if the clubs earn so much money, they should pay money towards community projects and charities. This would result in better lives and improved prospects for many children and young people rather than just a handful of footballers being able to live glamorous lives. After all, why do footballers need lots of sports cars each, when they can only drive one at a time? Some of this money could be spent on local grassroots football, to encourage more children to play and keep fit.

So on one hand, footballers earn clubs a lot of money from people paying to watch them and buying memorabilia. In addition, they train hard and have to sacrifice things in order to maintain their fitness. However, their job is not as important as many other professions, but they earn so much more than these. Furthermore, the money that they earn could be put to a much better use to change to lives of so many more people.

I feel that footballers do deserve a good wage, as they do generate a lot of money for the clubs. But I do disagree with how much they earn. Nobody can justify half a million pounds a week for playing football, whilst paramedics (whose job it is to save people’s lives in an emergency) would need to work for 20 years to make the same amount! What do you think?

Success Criteria:

• Opening paragraph • Closing paragraph

• Formal writing

• 1st person • Connectives • Paragraphs • Facts/reasons • Title • Mixture of sentences

Literacy task 2: Narrative

Read the extract below from a beginning of a story. What ideas have you got to continue the story?

Think about what you need:

v Powerful adjectives v Powerful adverbs v Mixture of sentences v Higher level punctuation v Excitement and suspense v Direct speech used correctly v Paragraphs

TASK: Continue writing the rest of the story based on what you have read below.

**Please send me your stories via TEAMS, I can’t wait to read them**

Screaming the crowd cheered with excitement! Even though it was foggy, this year’s skateboard competition was guaranteed to be unbelievably exciting! Especially, since Bobby was one of the celebrity skaters! Animated, the crowd pulsated with eagerness at the sight of Bobby at the top of the half pipe. Focused, the young skater took one deep breath and kicked his skateboard down the steep slope – crouching low to gain speed. Speeding up the other side, the pro-skater flipped into the air and spiralled back down towards the slope! Unbelievable! What was his next trick going to be? With the crowd roaring ever louder, Bobby prepared for his next summersault. The fog was much thicker now and it sat just above the half pipe like a haze of smoke. Bobby flipped straight into the air and spiralled upwards. Yelling with joy, the hordes of people briefly lost sight of the skater waiting for him to come rushing back down to the half pipe. Moments passed, but there was no sign of Bobby. Where had he gone? The crowd went silent. Still no sight. AHHHHHHHH! A scream from one member of the audience echoed through the venue, as a shadowy figure appeared through the fog at the top of the half pipe. But this was not Bobby… this was a beast!

Literacy task 3:

A comic is an entertaining way to capture a story in both words and pictures.

Planning your comic story is important and these are key features that you'll need to use:

• Panels are the boxes that contain each piece of action.

• Caption boxes within each panel are like the narrator. They tell you when and where events in the story are happening.

• Speech bubbles tell you what the characters are saying. Different shaped speech bubbles show different emotions. For example, spiky speech bubbles show a character is angry.

• Thought bubbles tell you what the characters are thinking. They can help to move the action along.

• Onomatopoeia words can be used to add sound effects like pow or boom.

• Different images make your comic exciting by using lots of different images or shot types (pictures from different points of view like long shots, close-ups or a bird's eye view).

Think about what your comic could be about. Think about the character and what it could be up to. It could be a superhero or a villain .

Plan your comic strip using a similar template like below:

Science:

Topic: Task 1

Recycle—don’t just toss everything in the bin. Lots of things (like cans, bottles, paper, and cardboard) can be remade into either the same kind of thing or new products. Making new items from recycled ones also takes less energy and fewer resources than making products from brand new materials.

Just about anything in your home (or office or school, etc.) that cannot be reused CAN be recycled into something else. You'd be amazed what can be done with a recycled product! A recycled pop bottle, can be made into T-shirts, combs, or hundreds of other plastic goods that can be used for many years. Even your brand new computer case might be made from ordinary recycled plastics. And paper products can take on different forms as well; an old phone book or colouring book might become one of your school books or a notebook.

Your recycling mission is not impossible! In fact, it is very simple:

Don't throw away anything that can be recycled!

Using the key message reduce, reuse and recycle can you design a poster informing people and encouraging people to do this.

Task 2:

Using the theme reduce, reuse and recycle please produce some lyrics for a song that will encourage children to do this.

Think about what lyrics you could use to get the key message across to the children. You could even send me a video with you singing your song!

Welsh:

Es i… – I went Aethon ni …..– We went Gwnes i… - I made / I did Gwnaethon ni.. We made/ we did Ces i …. – I had Cawson ni … - We had Dysgais i…. – I learnt Dysgon ni … - We learnt

Bwytais i … - I ate Bwyton ni … - We ate Gwelon ni …. – we saw Arhosais …. – I stayed Rhydym yn aros – We stayed Nofiais i – I swam Cyrhaeddom - We arrived Cyrhaeddais – I arrived

When I arrived and how Cyrhaeddom yn (country) ar (day) a aethom mewn awyren. We arrived in (country) on (day) and we went by plane. Yn y car/ ar y bws/ ar y tren/ ar y fferi. By car/ by bus/ on a train/ on a ferry

Accommodation Yr wyf yn aros mewn ________. I am staying in a_______. Mewn carafan/ mewn pabell/ mewn gwesty/ mewn fflat. Caravan/ tent/ hotel/ apartment

Weather Mae hi’n______ heddiw ond roedd hi’n ________ ddoe. It is _____ today but it was _____ yesterday Where I went and what I ate. Es i i ________ ac bwytais i_________. I went to the ______ and ate ______.

Describe how it is: Mae’n neis, Mae’n ofnadwy, mae’n hwyl – It is nice, it is terrible, it is fun. What are you doing today? Rydyn ni’n mynd I _______ - Today we are going to_______ Greetings and goodbyes Annwyl, helo Cariad, Cofion, Hwyl fawr, wela I chi.