Date: Tuesday 24th

March 2020

English Writing

LO: To identify the features of a persuasive letter. Read the following WAGOLL persuasive letter. What grammar features can you see? Use the list of grammar features below, and copy as many examples of each one from the letter that you can find. e.g. Linking Adverbials – to begin with, secondly, finally

Brookside Primary School Bright Street

Clitheroe BB7 1NW

Tuesday 24th March 2020

Dear Mrs Allan, Having been a pupil at Brookside Primary for the last seven years, I feel it is now my duty to relate to you the feelings of your students towards wearing a school uniform. It has long been felt by myself, and my peers, that wearing a school uniform is an outdated and impractical notion, which we no longer feel is necessary. By writing this letter, I hope to convince you that this is the case, and begin negotiations on changing this rule. My reasons for not wearing uniform are as follows: To begin with, a recent survey conducted by the school council identified that an overwhelming majority of 79% of pupils would prefer to wear their own clothes to school. As a Head Teacher, it is your duty to listen to and consider any opinions of your students and to negotiate with them. As the school council are an elected body of students from all the classes in the school, it is important that you take heed of any information they discover about the wants and needs of the pupils. Secondly, myself and my peers feel more comfortable and at ease in our own clothes. This is important as the more comfortable we feel, the better we are able to concentrate on the work we are doing. If we are constantly fiddling with stiff collars, itchy trousers and uncomfortable shoes, this distracts us from the task in hand. Moreover, this distracts us from learning. Therefore, wearing our own clothes would improve and lengthen our learning time and ultimately impact and improve our achievement in school, don’t you agree? (The school’s position on the league tables would rocket – and OFSTED would see that the Leaders and Teachers in school are working hard and getting results)! Finally, our parents would also benefit from the move to not wearing school uniform. Gone will be the excuses of not wearing uniform as our parents did not get it washed in time! Wearing our own clothes would mean there would be no lack of options. Parents would no longer have the mad Sunday rush of getting our uniforms washed and ironed in time for Monday. It would also reduce the amount that our parents have to pay towards clothing us. Good quality school uniform that lasts does not come cheap! Indeed – the money saved could be put towards school fund to buy new books, or stationary resources for our home, so we are able to effectively complete our homework. As you can see, there are compelling arguments as to why the children of Brookside Primary school should be able to abandon their uniforms in favour of more cost effective, practical and achievement boosting home clothes. Please consider the points I have raised in this letter carefully. My fellow students and I look forward to hearing your response Yours sincerely Anonymous Pupil Features to find:

first person rhetorical question formal tone emotive language

linking adverbials facts opinions greeting

present tense appropriate ending technical vocabulary modal verbs

English Reading

Read the next page of Cloud Tea Monkeys and answer the following questions in FULL sentences.

Retrieval Questions

1. What made Tashi wake up? 2. How did she know that the adults were keen to show her something? 3. What was it about the contents of the basket that Tashi found unusual? 4. Why did it take Tashi such a long time to move the basket?

Inference Questions 5. Why do you think Rajah wanted to watch Tashi? 6. What do you think the tea-pickers were whispering and giggling about? Why are they nervous?

Grammar LO: To use dashes to indicate parenthesis. I’d like you to re-read the sentences from yesterday, but this time, change the information in the parenthesis. E.g. My teacher is really funny – she always makes us laugh.

1. My teacher is really funny – her jokes are awesome. 2. My sister – who usually struggles – to get to sleep was fast asleep before I went to bed last night. 3. Thegiraffereachedhungrilyfortheleavesoftheacaciatree–hefeltverypeckish this morning. 4. Year 5’s display – which had taken hours to do – was completely ruined by the flood in the corridor.

Spellings 1. LO: To convert nouns or adjectives into verbs by adding the suffix –ify Many –ify suffix words are just created by simply adding the –ify suffix to a noun or adjective root word, e.g. solid (noun) solidify (verb). However, sometimes we need to remove the ‘e’ from the end of noun or adjective root word before adding –ify, e.g. ample (adjective) amplify (verb). Root words that end in ‘y’ also usually remove this letter before adding –ify, e.g. glory (noun) glorify (verb). Use the definitions of each word to work out the root word, and the word with the –ify suffix. Is the root word a noun or an adjective? Can you use each word in a sentence of your own?

Arithmetic Use column subtraction to calculate the following: 1. 74321 – 13934 2. 52413 – 23120 3. 85323 – 71401 4. 32653 – 18341 5. 53145 - 32672

Maths LO: To solve problems involving measures. Use everything we learnt last week in class about kg, g, ml, l and km and m to solve the following problems carefully. Remember to choose an appropriate strategy to solve the calculation. Sometimes a formal written method is appropriate, sometimes a mental strategy with jottings is best.

Challenge

Topic LO: To discover what products the UK exports, and which countries the UK exports the most to

Do some research online and find out which products the UK exports, and which countries the UK exports to. Once you have done your research, answer these questions:

1. What products does the UK export to other countries? 2. What are ‘trade links’ and ‘trade partners’? 3. Which countries does the UK export the most to? 4. Does the UK export raw materials or manufactured goods? 5. Why does the UK export this type of goods?