Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 1

What’s on

the

beach?

8th June

Coastal town

project

9th June

Beach combing

10th June

Litter

11thJune

Shells

12th June

Life in a rock

pool

Week 2

wildlife

15th June

Coastal town

project

16th June

Coastal birds

17th June

Fish

18th June

Mammals

19th June

Seaweeds and

coral

Week 3

Erosion

and

Physical

geography

22nd June

Coastal town

project

23rd June

Sea Defences

24th June

Dredging

25th June

Estuaries

26th June

Walton-on-the-

Naze case study

Week 4

Tourism

and Travel

29th June

Coastal town

project

30th June

Cargo ships

1st July

Passenger

ferries

2nd July

Pollution

3rd July

Food, drink and

leisure.

Week 5

History

6th July

Coastal town

project

7th July

Dunwich case

study

8th July

Great Yarmouth

case study

9th July

Clacton-on-Sea

case study

10th July

Harwich case

study

Week 6 13th July

Coastal town

project:

Redemption

14th July

Coastal town

project:

Redemption

15th July

Coastal town

project:

Redemption

16th July

Coastal town

project:

Redemption

17th July

Front cover and

contents page

Before break

1) Arithmetic questions (Tuesdays-Fridays)

2) Times Table Rock Stars

3) Reading – spend 30 minutes reading a book or text of your choice.

After break

4) Choose a sentence from your reading book/text and annotate it with everything you can tell me about its grammatical content:

➢ Nouns – naming words. These could be single words (e.g. book, table) or a phrase (e.g. the woman with a green dress)

➢ Adverbs (describes how, when, why or where a verb is done. They can also moderate adjectives e.g. too, extremely, very, quite)

➢ Verbs (doing or state of being words e.g. have, run, take)

➢ Adjectives - describe nouns. They could be a single word (e.g. blue, happy) or a phrase (e.g. the man with red hair)

➢ Determiners (tell us which noun we are talking about e.g. a, an, the, some, every)

➢ Prepositions (describe relationships between nouns e.g. in, beside, of, with)

➢ Pronouns – (replace a noun e.g. he, it, them).

➢ Punctuation (including full stops, commas, dashes, semi-colons, colons, speech marks, ellipses and exclamation marks)

➢ Synonyms/antonyms (words which mean the same/words which mean the opposite)

➢ Conjunction types (coordinating or subordinating)

➢ Modal verbs (suggest probability e.g. can, will, could, might)

➢ Subordinated clauses (look for subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns such as who, which, that)

5) Revise the spellings from the three word lists below. Each day, highlight five new spellings from each list and use a variety of strategies to practise them (ideas are attached at the end of this document). Then ask someone to test you.

6) Read the topic task for the afternoon and begin planning.

After lunch

7) Complete the topic task given to you.

List 1

List 2

List 3

Monday

Coastal Town Project

Twenty years have passed since you left your coastal town. You have travelled

the world in style with your accrued fortune: you have seen all Seven Wonders

of the World, you entered Tutankhamun’s tomb by candlelight, journeyed along

the Tigris, crossed the windswept wastes of the arctic tundra and even paid

Richard Branson a quarter of a million pounds to travel with Virgin Galactic into

space.

When your private yacht founders off the English coast, you make for the

nearest town with a pier (suitably dredged, of course, to accommodate your

excessive tonnage): the town of [insert name of town here].

However, as you walk through the town, you realise that all is not well. Your

sharply tailored suit cuts a strong contrast with the squalor you see around you,

with the crumbling buildings, unmown airstrips and boarded-up shop fronts.

You decide you can’t leave now. [name of town here] needs you! And this time,

what is required isn’t haphazard construction, as was the case so many years

ago! What is required is an aesthetic revolution! What is required is a

renaissance of art, design and architecture!

Drawing upon your personal encounters with the World’s greatest and most

important artistic and architectural achievements, you decide that you will

guide the town and its waning industries through this challenging period.

Ducking the divebombing herring gulls, your step hurries to a jog, then a run,

then a sprint as you hurry up the hill towards your old house. A song fills the air

as you zoom past bemused locals and start construction on your workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGnNQ6PX-Mg

(If you like you can create a workshop by cutting out the various workshop elements and gluing them on

the shed space)

workbench

Tool cabinet

Hammers, spanners,

chisels and files

vice

Circular saw Band Saw

Lathe

You hear a knock on your door. Putting down your hacksaw, you open it to see a

local who has heard about your initiative to revive the town.

SPaG

Later that evening you recall the conversation in your diary, writing what was

said using reported speech. Can you complete the extract? Try to include some

thoughts/feelings you can imply.

A most curious exchange occurred today. A local, having

knocked on the door of my new workshop, let out a pitiful

exclamation. Eager to help, I asked whether…

Oh ma’am/sir! It’s terrible!

What’s terrible? Speak quickly, my friend.

It’s the flooding! The terrible flooding! No matter how high we build our

flood defences, the sea inundates the houses at least annually.

Thank you, my friend. Rest assured; I will not tire until this issue

has been resolved.

You sleep fitfully, tossing and turning as you try and find some solution to the

flooding problem.

You suddenly remember your journeys in Bangladesh! There, you saw first-hand

the work of scientists and engineers as they helped locals tackle their problems

with seasonal flooding during the monsoon. Watch a video about their work by

clicking the link below.

This is how you will help the locals of [insert town name here] with their

flooding problems! You will design a new flood-proof yet stylish house!

With little experience in the field of cutting-edge house design, you make a

phone call to Kevin McCloud (of Grand Designs fame) who comes around for a

cup of tea to discuss the technical challenges you are facing.

“Your house,” Kevin remarks, “reminds me of one I visited not far from here –

near Colchester in fact. It was built overlooking the Colne estuary at a place

called Lee-over-Sands.” He leans over and points to a location on the map

below. “The whole place flooded at high tide, as I recall…”

He passes you a copy of de zeen – a hip magazine for architects – which has a

feature about the “Redshank House” as it has come to be known.

Oil rigs, Maunsell forts and a wading bird

provided the inspiration for this artist's retreat in a

salt marsh on England's east coast, which becomes

inaccessible when the tide comes in.

The seaside studio space was developed by British

architect Lisa Shell for artist Marcus Taylor, who

wanted a peaceful place that he could retreat to and

concentrate on his work.

Taylor had purchased a dilapidated timber-framed

house from the 1920s in the hamlet of Lee over

Sands, which is situated within Essex Wildlife

Trust's Colne Point Nature Reserve.

The site's location on the exposed side of the sea

wall means it is regularly inundated, so the old

house had to be removed and replaced with an

alternative that is suited to this unique location.

"The coastal site is an extreme environment in

which to build," said Shell, "but also one that is

delicate and sensitive: these constraints demanded

innovation and experimentation."

"The changing climate – annual, seasonal, monthly

and daily cycles, alongside long-term climate

predictions – had a crucial influence on the

design."

Rather than proposing a robust, flood-proof

structure, the architect developed a design that

raises the building out of reach of the rising tide.

Three galvanised-steel legs finished in a resinous

paint that will withstand the salty air elevate the

structure and allow the sea to wash underneath. A

staircase with symmetrical flights docks to the side

of the cabin.

The elevations are clad in untreated oak boards and

cork panels that form a skin around the cross-

laminated timber frame and offer protection from

the salty winds.

The stairs ascend to a decked terrace from

which the entrance leads into a small hall

providing access to a bedroom and wet room.

Significant features that can be seen from the

studio provided key sources of inspiration.

These include wind turbines and one of the

armed towers built in the Thames during the

second world war.

The colour of the building's painted pillars also

reference the red legs of the redshank – a

wading bird that can be found in the salt marsh

and from which the project takes its name.

The delicate seaside ecosystem necessitated a design and construction method that minimises the house's

impact on the environment.

"The construction period was limited to summer months to avoid impact on the environment whose

qualities are relied upon by overwintering birds," Shell added. “Raising the building on tall legs enabled

us to remove the old rubble foundations and for the area beneath the building to return to natural

marshland.

"Redshank demonstrates how to survive flood risk in an era of storms and tidal surges, whilst giving

proper consideration to the natural environment in which it sits," the architect concluded.

"Its idiosyncratic design has also generated an extraordinary, comfortable retreat without offending the

locals."

Before you can start designing, gather any construction materials (e.g. tin foil,

bubble wrap, card, straw/grass, clay, paper, straws, string, lolly sticks, twigs,

leaves, bamboo pieces, plastic bags, stones) you might require. Think about how

waterproof each material is as you find them, sorting them into the different

groups below:

If you aren’t sure how your material behaves when wet, you could always

conduct an absorbency test:

You also need to test the strength of your different materials!

Waterproof (doesn’t

absorb water)

Water resistant (gets

damp after a while)

Absorbent (absorbs

water readily)

1. Measure and cut a standard sample of 15 cm x 2

cm for each material available to ensure a fair test.

2. Hold the material sample in a vertical position

over a beaker containing 1cm depth of coloured

water.

3. Start the timer once the material is lowered into

the water.

4. Leave it in for 3 minutes then remove from the

water.

5. Record how high up the material the water was

absorbed, using a table to record the results.

Sketch a plan for your house in the box below. Label all the different materials

you have used and the features that make it suitable for a flood-prone area.

1. Set up some clamps on stands about 15 cm apart.

Alternatively, ask a friend to hold your samples.

2. Measure and cut a standard sample of 15 cm x 2

cm for each material available to ensure a fair test.

3. Clamp (or ask a friend to hold) the sample and

slowly add weights to the midpoint of the material

until the material bends or breaks.

4. Record the weight necessary to break or bend the

material in a table.

5. Repeat the test two more times with fresh pieces

of the same material and take an average result.

Finally, construct a model of your flood-resistant house. Once built, test it by

pouring over a whole watering can of water – if your house remains standing by

the time the last drop has fallen, you have been successful in your mission!

Tuesday

Coastal Town Project

You smile as you pass the construction workers tearing out the gutted insides of

houses along the seafront; soon, these houses will be converted according to

your flood-proof house plans.

Alongside the pier, a fisherman wearily draws lobster pots up from the deck and

deposits them on the walkway.

“Good morning, sir!” you cry.

“Bah! Some good morning!”

“Why, whatever could you mean by that?”

“There’s nowt left, that’s what I mean. My catches have gone down and down.”

He gestures at the empty lobster baskets around him. “It’s hardly worth setting

out for sea anymore.”

Your brow is furrowed for the rest of the morning. What could you possibly do

about the dwindling stocks of shellfish in the town’s waters? Not even the

crossword in the morning’s paper can distract you, although you complete it

nonetheless…

Suddenly you recall the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow (the location of

your second home).

You read the literature on their website to remind yourself of their mission. You

are especially interested in their ‘buy one set one free’ initiative and think about

recommending the scheme to local restaurants:

https://www.nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk/support-us/buyonesetonefree/

You try to anticipate the questions local restauranteurs might have about the

‘buy one set one free’ initiative - answer the following questions using full

sentences:

1) What are the advantages for my business if I sign up for this initiative?

2) How effective has the scheme been so far?

3) What does the National Lobster Hatchery actually do to help protect

lobster numbers?

4) Why is such a scheme needed? Why can’t lobsters just breed in the wild?

You decide to set up a new lobster hatchery in [insert town name here]. In

keeping with your desire to transform the town using the power of art and

design, you take it upon yourself to design a new container to hold the baby

lobsters. Each lobster must be isolate within its individual cell.

Being the cultured, well-travelled woman/man of the World that you are, you

decide to take inspiration from the patterns of Islamic design you observed in

the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Follow the step-by-step instructions for creating an Islamic tile design below.

When you have finished, draw a lobster in each cell.

Step 1 Start with a circle in a square, divided into eight equal sections:

Step 2 Draw four lines that pass through the intersections indicated with red circles. Consider the lines as two opposing V-shapes. The lines do not end in the corners of the square.

Step 3 Draw another two opposing V-shapes, using the same intersections as in the previous step.

Step 4 All the construction lines have now been drawn. Take a different colour pen or pencil and draw the red lines, tracing parts of lines you have drawn in the previous steps.

Step 5 Still using a different colour pen or pencil, draw the four-pointed star, as indicated.

Step 6. All the lines have been drawn; your pattern is complete.

Remember your baby lobsters!

Salvador Dalí, “Lobster Telephone” (1936)

Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist famous for his Surrealist artworks. Surreal art sought to

unlock the potential of the unconscious, exploring the imagery of dreams and combining

objects and ideas in new ways. “Lobster Telephone” is one of his most famous surreal

combinations. Below is a lobster template for you to colour and stick onto the back of your

mobile phone/home phone – what reactions will you get?

Wednesday

Coastal Town Project

Over a cup of tea and some breakfast kippers, you peruse the latest news on

your phone.

Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge: How likely is it to be built?

Reports have resurfaced that a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland is being

considered by the UK government.

The prime minister's official spokesman yesterday said there was a "proper piece of work"

being carried out by a "range of government officials" into the construction of the first ever

bridge between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland. The idea has been floated before with

two potential routes suggested - from Portpatrick to Larne or near Campbeltown to the Antrim

coast. Plans for some kind of link - either a tunnel or a bridge - go back as far as the 1890s but,

despite much consideration, nothing has ever been built.

The price of any construction would, obviously, be dependent on the route chosen. Original

estimated costs of £3.5 billion have already risen considerably, with some experts proposing

that no less than £15 billion would be required to see the project through to the end.

The think tank Centre for Cross Border Studies are supportive. A 21-mile bridge from

Dumfries and Galloway, they say, could provide rail links and road traffic links as well as

reduce demand for air services, a sector often criticised for its high levels of pollution.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge runs for 30 miles over water

In terms of distance - more than 20 miles for the Portpatrick project - it would not be the

longest bridge over water in the world. That honour goes, according to Guinness World

Records, to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge which has 48.3km (about 30 miles) of its

span over water. It credits the 36km (22.4 mile) Hangzhou Bay Bridge as the structure

spanning the greatest expanse of open sea. However, they are all dwarfed by the longest bridge

of all - the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge - at 164 km (102 miles) which stretches the

furthest, although not over open water.

According to a Channel 4 report last year, the government is investigating "the risks around

the project" - including "WW2 munitions in the Irish Sea". This is nothing new: concerns have

long been expressed about the area known as Beaufort's Dyke - a deep submarine trench where

it has been estimated more than one million tonnes of weapons have been jettisoned.

Between logistics and costs, some have dismissed the scheme as unlikely to ever happen. A

senior Scottish government source has described the bridge proposal as "pie in the sky" and

the "usual smokescreen bluster" from Boris Johnson.

However, one of the UK's leading architects Prof Alan Dunlop told Channel 4 News there

would always be "naysayers". “Such a project could be potentially tremendous for the country

and show us as a forward looking and thinking country," he said. He also previously told the

BBC: "We do have incredibly talented architects and engineers in Scotland so I am sure that

as a technical challenge it wouldn't be insurmountable."

The prime minister has made no secret of his support for infrastructure projects that increase

connectivity for people and particularly those that strengthen the Union. Late last year,

Ireland's premier Leo Varadkar said he would not dismiss the idea of building a bridge between

Northern Ireland and Scotland, but insisted the UK must pay for it.

Using two colours of pencil/highlighter, review the article above.

• Underline all the arguments for a bridge being built one colour

• Underline all the arguments against another colour

SPaG

Can you complete the table of synonyms (words that mean the same) and

antonyms (words that mean the opposite) below?

Synonym Antonym

true

secret

unlikely

far

rise

stretch

Sitting back in your chair, you take a deep sigh and consider your new

understanding of the economic and social benefits of building connections

between two communities. Your thoughts linger on how you might apply this to

help [insert name of town here].

Suddenly, you have an idea! Quickly pulling out an Ordnance Survey map of the

area, you navigate to your currently location and, with your finger, trace a

coastal path from your town to the next. It takes in all the vistas that you know

from personal experience are the most breath-taking, and offers access to a

host of remote but beautiful beaches to the public. This will be an effective yet

low-maintenance and ecologically friendly way of attracting more visitors.

However, there is a problem – the

footpath must cross over your railway’s

tracks to enter the town. A bridge is

required.

Your challenge is to build a bridge for foot traffic over the railway line in town. Examine these

examples of footbridges for inspiration:

Suddenly, there is a knock at the door of your

workshop. “Good morning! I’m not disturbing you,

I hope? Do you happen to have any spare milk?”

“No, not at all. I was just eating my kippers... Wait a

minute! You’re Isambard Kingdom Brunel, master

civil engineer!”

He smiles, “Indeed I am.”

“I wonder if you could help me build a new

footbridge over the railway line in town? I would

be awfully grateful if you could.”

“Hmm…” he replies. “Yes, I suppose I could do that.

You will have to do most of the building, of course.

Are you familiar with triangulation?”

“Why, yes! I have built rollercoasters in my time,

applying the concept of triangulation. Triangulation

is…” Can you complete the description?

“Of course, you will have to build it so as to avoid passing trains and the power lines,” explains

Mr Brunel. He hands you the specifications for the bridge below:

“You can use any materials from this list,” he says as he passes you the construction yard

prices list. “Remember: the cheaper you can do it for, the better! Oh, and remember the

steps!” He laughs as he departs, chewing on his cigar.

Material Price per item Number used Cost

Paper (A4 sheet) £5,500

Card (A4 sheet) £7,000

Straw (1 full-length straw) £950

Sticky tape (5cm piece) £60

String (10cm length) £32

Bamboo/wooden stick £4,000 per 20cm length

Blu Tack (1cm ball) £265

Lolly Sticks (10cm long) £2,000 each

Plastic bag piece (10cm square)

£400

Glue Free

Total cost: _________________________________________

Thursday

Coastal Town Project

Early on Thursday morning, you head down into the town centre in search of a

café serving breakfast. The place is perfect in every respect but one: the

crockery on which your food is served and in which your tea is poured is old,

chipped and cracked. Perhaps this is why there are so few other customers?

Your curiosity piqued, you read some reviews of the café on TripAdvisor. Your

suspicions are correct – every review compliments the café in almost every

respect except the old crockery.

Can you complete the reviews below? Match the tone of the review to the

star rating, but remember that each should mention the crockery in a negative

way.

e.g. Disappointing

I remember coming here 20 years ago when it was a great place – good food at

a reasonable price, served with a smile.

How far it has fallen! I ordered a latte and a croissant only to find that the cup

was cracked! It was obviously an old one because the crack was a dark brown

colour but the most upsetting thing was that, when I mentioned it, the server

said they couldn’t do anything about it!

Awful experience all round.

Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!

I visited last Thursday and…

[title of review]

[title of review]

With your typical entrepreneurial zeal, you immediately set to work designing a

new dining set range for cafes in the town. Pushing aside your empty plate, the

last residue of tomato sauce drying to a sticky syrup, you whip out your

notebook and begin sketching preliminary ideas for patterns. It must have a

coastal theme, of course…

Can you finish these patterns?

You conduct some research into other ceramicists working with a coastal

theme and come across the work of Pru Green. She works from her gallery-

home in Wivenhoe, near Colchester.

Pru Green uses sgraffito, the process of scratching into wet paint with a sharp

stick, to create the lines in her designs.

Have a go! Create stamps of the outlines of different animals and plants using

cardboard (or even a potato), apply paint to the surface and stamp the shapes

onto paper before then using a sharp tool to scratch away some of the excess

paint.

A similar effect can also be achieved using stencilling. You can either find some

stencils online (cutting out the black areas) or make your own.

Experiment with these techniques now.

Can you develop some imagery inspired by the coastal lifeforms on the next

page?

The time has come to develop your dining set. The design for the whole set

should be cohesive (i.e. you should know that they all belong to the same set by

the similarity of their patterns). Can you use stencilling and/or sgraffito?

Friday

Coastal Town Project

Today your task is to create the front cover for your topic book. Study your

coastal town map to remind yourself of the buildings you had before cutting out

and sticking the different photographs below onto the coastal landscape (the

one with the sheep) to create a collaged picture of your town. Only use the

elements you have in your town – if you don’t have any airports in your town,

for example, don’t stick any onto the landscape.

e.g.

Using this collaged artwork to inspire you, produce a drawing of your coastal

town to become the front cover of your topic book.

You wil also need to produce a contents page for your topic book.

Finally, have at go at the puffin painting-by-numbers attached as a separate

document (you will have to solve the maths questions to work out which

colours to paint the areas).

I have never seen a puffin before; I hope that this summer I will get to see one!

Whatever plans you have for the summer, have a lovely break and we will see

you back at school in September!