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English Daily Activities

Reading: Aim to read up to 5 times per week with your child. Reading every day would be even better. Use https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ to access free eBooks online or use books at home.

Writing: Choose a favourite from one of the stories you have read this week. Can you create a sequencing frame to summarise the main parts of the story? Remember to include details, think about the characters feelings and include descriptions. Challenge! Can you include direct quotes from the text?

Spelling: Continue to practise weekly spellings using the LSCWC method. (Look at the word. Say the word. Cover the word. Write the word and finally check the word. Ask a family member to test you. Complete at least 8 spellings per week from your group’s spelling list. (Resource 1)

Maths Daily Activities

Times Tables: In class we have been learning our 11 and 12 x tables. Use the bronze, silver and gold method to improve your skills with a family member. Bronze: reciting your tables in order. Silver: Random x table facts e.g. 8 x 11 =, 12 x 9 = Gold: Know the corresponding division facts e.g. 81 divided by 9 is? Challenge yourself to spot any patterns and rules in the 11 times table. Don’t forget, you can use our friends ‘Todd and Ziggy’ to help you learn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uK5HaHqXFc You can also find some useful games at: https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Fractions: We have been learning to find fractions of a number. Remember, fractions are just equal parts of a whole. If we cut a pizza into equal parts, those pieces would be fractions of the whole. If we cut it into 5 equal pieces, each slice would be 1/5. We can do the same with numbers too! Use the method below to work out the fractions in the table.

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Divide by the bottom number

and times by the top!

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Online Safety Challenge!

We are probably all spending a lot more time online at the moment, but it is still incredibly important to remember how to stay safe online! We have looked at several areas of online safety this year and this fortnight we will be continuing with this work by investigating the power of words and cyberbullying.

Watch the videos here. They have lots of useful information about cyberbullying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=916K8xRxQZw - what is cyberbullying? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3o9yVlxMD0 – what do I do?

Task: Can you create a video or poster capturing cause and effect of hurtful messages? You could use a simple video recorder, animated avatars or audio capture. You must include information about what to do and who to contact if you come across cyberbullying or anything concerning you online.

Remember: If there is anything bothering you either on or offline, always speak to a trusted adult.

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Context Based Learning Across the Curriculum

This fortnight, as part of our topic ‘The World In Our Hands,’ we will be learning about the introduction of the railways during the Victorian times, as well as the exciting inventions which came about during the time. The Victorian times were a huge time of change and many of the things we have today have their origin from this time. Below are 12 activities related to the railways and inventions. As always, choose 8 of the activities to complete and add to your project. The only rule is you must choose at least 1 activity from each area – Pob lwc! ♦We would really like your input in what you learn next about the Victorians. Send us your ideas by class email if you haven’t already done so! You could use a defining frame or list as an example. We will then try our best to include them!♦ Languages, Literacy and Communication Mathematics and Numeracy Railway advert Problem Solving The railways were a brand new invention Isambard Kingdom was a Victorian during the Victorian times. A lot of engineer. He created many railway bridges, steam ships and many other things! You can still people were unsure about or even scared see some of his creations still standing today. of the railways and needed some He used maths every day to help him in his convincing! Imagine you are an advertiser inventions. for the railway companies. Can you create an advert to promote the railways Brunel had to solve mathematical problems, lots to the people? of them involving shape and pattern. Have a go at solving the problem below.

Join the corners of the 2d shapes that follow. Fill in a table with: Think about the features we have looked at when creating a) Number of sides adverts. Remember to include: b) Number of lines drawn  A title c) Number of lines drawn from each corner  Slogan and logo  Persuasive language  Descriptions  Special offers Danescourt Primary School Year 4- Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 18th May

 Celebrity endorsement (think about who celebrities at the time might be-e.g. ‘Charles Dickens says…’)

There is a rule which links the numbers in the table, so once you have worked out the number of sides/lines from each corner for each shape, you should be able to work out how many lines from each corner would there be for a shape with 20 sides, without having to actually draw it!

Remember: Use your Habit of Mind, Stick With it! Think about how you will tackle the problem. Using a method such as RUCSAC can be useful! A reminder of RUCSAC can be found at the bottom – resource 2.

Railway timetable Using your knowledge of time, can you create a railway timetable? You should include departure times, arrival times and how long the journey will take.

*Choose 5 journeys and include departure and arrival times

with duration.

**Use analogue and digital times Danescourt Primary School Year 4- Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 18th May

Persuasive letter ***Include multistage journeys or journeys with changes and times.

Many people felt very strongly about the railways. Some people really liked the idea but some people hated it! There were strong arguments on both sides. Imagine you are a villager and have just found out there will be a new railway line built through your village. Can you write a persuasive letter to the railway company saying either why you think it is a good idea or a bad idea. Remember to give reasons for your arguments, use persuasive language and a summary.

Use Yellow hat (positives)

Black hat (pit-falls)

and red hat (feelings) to help you build your arguments.

Challenge: refer to the arguments from the other side and say why you don’t agree with them.

Have a look at the videos here to help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCYvNvV68c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5GLGeOFs8

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Expressive Arts Humanities Railway rap Time line Can you create a rap about the railways? You could focus on using your voice to Using the information on the websites below or in resource 4, recreate the sounds made by the trains create a timeline of the life of . Remember to use chronological order, dates and key facts. You on tracks or you could write rhyming could use a sequencing frame to help you set it out. lyrics to perform about the railways. You could even write your rap to go with your advert to promote the railways. https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/isambard-kingdom- Challenge! Can you include some Welsh in your rap? E.g. Wych! brunel Wych! Mae'r trenau yn wych! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dY9Ms-PrF8

You can find rap backing tracks online to go with your rap by searching ‘rap beats for kids.’ Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYuTq2FDOc

Musical Appraisal The 1851! Inventions were not just limited to science and technology Prince Albert (Queen Victoria’s husband) during the Victorian era. During was a great admirer of all the scientific, this time (1890s), musicians artistic and industrial advances during his were also busy composing music lifetime. Together, with the help of in a new style called the ‘early modern style.’ Henry Cole, Albert commissioned the One of Britain’s most famous composers was Edward Elgar who ‘Great Exhibition’ – a world fair to show was born in 1857 – right in the middle of the Victorian times. off all the wonderful technologies. It was Below is a link to his most famous piece of music – ‘Nimrod.’ so big and special, they had to have a special building created – The Crystal You may even recognise it! Palace in London’s Hyde Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnMd1Jl7SA You task is to appraise this piece of music. Use the questions Your task is to create your own ‘Great Exhibition.’ Research Victorian inventions below as a guide. and choose your favourites to include in your exhibition. You may be surprised at Timbre: What instruments can you hear? how many objects you have in your house which were invented during Victorian Danescourt Primary School Year 4- Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 18th May

Texture: Just one instrument or many playing all together? times. You could use role play or even make your own Crystal Palace in a Tempo: Is the piece fast or slow? cardboard or cereal box with models or drawings of the inventions. Why not give Structure: Does the same part of the tune repeat or is it all your toys a tour? different? Pitch: Is the piece mostly high or low?

Duration: Do the notes last for a long time or short time?

Dynamics: Is the music loud or soft? Does it get louder (crescendo) or softer (diminuendo) through the piece? How does the piece make you feel?

Health and Wellbeing Science and Technology Railway safety poster Design Time! The railways were incredibly As we have been learning, Isambard Kingdom Brunel built many bridges among his other exciting and interesting for the inventions. The picture below is of the Clifton suspension bridge. It was designed by Brunel Victorians. But with them came a and is still working today!Your task is to build your own bridge. Think about the materials you range of dangers. This picture could use, the gap you want it to cross and what shapes you could use to make it as strong as comes from a story called the possible. Once you have Railway Children. How dangerous – built your bridge, test it but as railways were new, the using weights (E.g. dangers were not well known! Tins of beans, Lego bricks) to see how much it Today playing near railway lines is just as dangerous for many reasons. will hold. Remember to Your task is to create a railway safety poster. Make sure you include tips keep your weights the on staying away from railway lines and staying safe at stations. same each time so it is fair.

You will find lots of useful information on the website at: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/safety-in-the- community/safety-education/primary-school-resources

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Eco Impacts Coding Although the industrial Believe it or not, the first computers began to emerge during revolution was an amazing the Victorian times. They looked very different to the time of change, many of computers we know today. A man called Charles Babbage was these inventions came with the first person to invent a programmable computer. The consequences for the picture shows his machine. Just like today, he had to program environment. Can you create a his machine using lines of code. He had to write out his code by Cause and Effect frame of hand before he could use it to programme his machine. the problems to the environment caused by these inventions and what the consequences may have been. Think about how building the railways may Your task is to write code to direct a train around a maze. You have impacted the countryside, how steam power and burning fuels on a could build your maze with Lego, draw it on a grid or create it in large scale may have impacted the air etc. the garden and pretend to be the train yourself! If you want to Think: Do these problems still exist challenge yourself you could include extra instructions such as drop today? What steps can we take to passengers, toot whistle or wait for level-crossing. help our environment? Step 1: Write your code – write your instructions out very clearly and in detail. Step 2: Run your code – test your code. Does it work? Step 3: Time to de-bug! What changes do you need to make to run smoothly?

Here is an example of writing code to follow. My task is to fill in the black squares. Look at the picture above. Use See, Think, Wonder to study it detail. What do you see? Step 1: forward 2, colour, forward 1, turn 1, colour, stop.

What do you think about it? Step 2: This is what happened - What does it make you wonder?

Step 3: De-bugging. I was not specific with my instructions! Here is my de-bugged code: Forward 2, colour, forward 1, turn ¼ clockwise, forward 1, colour, stop.

You can use symbols or words for your code!

https://code.org/curriculum/course2/1/Teacher

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A little message just to say…

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in making the Year 4 video – ‘We’re all in this together.’ It meant the world to us to see all those happy faces and to see you all safe and well! It brought a tear to our eyes.

Sending you and your families all the very best wishes! Stay safe and as soon as it is possible, we’ll all be

together again.

From Miss Walters, Mrs Davies, Mrs Pardoe and Mrs Perkins 

Resource 1:Spelling lists Danescourt Primary School Year 4- Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 18th May

Red Group Red Group Blue Group Purple Group (Mrs Pardoe/Mrs (Miss Walters) Davies) Words with the c Words ending in Adding the suffix The igh sound spelt y sound spelt ch -ous -ness happiness shy chemist serious dizziness sky character obvious jolliness sly chemical hideous silliness dry chaos anxious bossiness try chorus tremendous sloppiness fly school jealous cheekiness cry scheme enormous stickiness why echo mountainous fussiness rely anchor poisonous shyness reply mechanic curious dryness nearby stomach courageous chattiness terrify orchestra outrageous spiciness horrify ache humorous madness petrify aching glamorous sleepiness multiply chemistry dangerous giddiness butterfly schemed previous

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Resource 2: RUCSAC

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Resource 3: Welsh Dictionary Online https://geiriadur.uwtsd.ac.uk/

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Resource 4:

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel?

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer in Victorian times. He built bridges, ships and even railway stations – you can still see some of those today!

Brunel changed transportation in Britain. He designed the railway line between and London, and built a ship that only took 15 days to get from to New York City. People could travel further, faster!

Brunel died when he was just 53 years old, but his contributions to the world of engineering and transportation live on.

Top 10 facts

1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on 9 April 1806 in Portsmouth. 2. Brunel’s parents sent him to the finest schools in England and France to learn the skills he needed to be an engineer. 3. Brunel worked on the Thames with his dad, who was also an engineer. He almost drowned when the roof collapsed and flooded in 1827! 4. While Brunel was recovering, he entered and won a competition to design a bridge over the Avon river gorge in Clifton, Bristol – this later became the Clifton Suspension Bridge. 5. He married Mary Horsley in 1836. They had three children: Isambard Junior, Henry Marc and Florence Mary. Henry also became an engineer when he grew up. 6. Brunel was known for wearing a tall black top hat – very stylish in Victorian times! 7. Brunel was the chief engineer of the , and he designed the railway line between London and Bristol. He also designed the Temple Meads station in Bristol, and Paddington station in London. 8. Brunel also designed fast ships – the SS Great Western, the SS Great Britain and the SS Great Eastern. 9. Brunel died on 5 September 1859. He is buried at in London. 10. Brunel’s legacy has lasted long after 1859. His constructions are still used today!

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Biography of Brunel’s Work

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth on the 9th of April 1806. When Brunel was 2 years old (1808) his family moved to London. Brunel spent his childhood in London. When he was old enough, in 1820, his parents sent him to study maths and engineering in France. He worked very hard and became very accomplished at his work. Two years later in 1822, Brunel graduated and went to work with his father, also an engineer, in London. Brunel was involved in many building projects during his time here. In 1825, work began on building a tunnel under the in London. At first the tunnel was working well, but in 1827 disaster struck and the roof collapsed – Brunel himself almost drowned in the catastrophe!

In 1831, Brunel entered a competition to design a bridge across the River Avon gorge in Clifton near Bristol. Brunel won the competition and the bridge was built. You can still see the bridge standing and being used to this day! Two years later, in 1833, Brunel was given the job of Chief Engineer for the Great Western Railway. During this time he worked on the construction of the railways building bridges, and buildings.

In 1836, Brunel decided to recommence work on the . During this year he also got married to a lady called Mary Horsley.

Until now, Britain had been ruled by a king, King William IV. But, in 1837, King William died and was succeeded on the throne by his niece – Queen Victoria. During the first few years of Victoria’s reign, many exciting development happened in engineering. In 1838, the steam ship the ‘SS Great Western’ (designed by Brunel) travelled from Liverpool to New York in 13 days! Previously it would have taken months to travel by sea in a sailing ship. 1841 , and Bristol Temple Meads station were completed and the route from Bristol to London opened.

On 25 March 1843, work on Brunel’s Thames Tunnel was finally completed and it was opened for use for the first time. Following his success, in 1843 Brunel was appointed surveyor and engineer of five different regional railways! Then, in 1845, the SS Great Britain went on its first voyage, and the Hungerford Bridge opened.

 In 1852 Chepstow Bridge opened and in 1854 London’s Paddington Station was opened.  1855 Brunel designed the Renkioi Hospital, a temporary hospital that was sent to the Crimea for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War  1857 Work began on the East Bengal Railway in India  1859 Prince Albert opened the  On 15 September 1859 Brunel died. Following his death, several of his projects were completed. In 1860 the SS Great Eastern went on its first voyage and in 1864

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was finished.

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Did you know?

 Brunel’s first name – Isambard – was his dad’s middle name. His middle name – Kingdom – was his mum’s maiden name.  Brunel’s dad was also a famous engineer, and taught him lots of things about engineering when he was very young.  Brunel was known for wearing a tall top hat (a 'stovepipe' hat), and for being very short! He was just over 5 feet tall… maybe that’s why he wanted to wear such a big hat?  Brunel designed lots of different things – train, ships, bridges, tunnels, docks, and even a hospital!  Brunel liked to get really involved in the things he was designing, but this sometimes meant that he’d get badly hurt. He almost drowned when the roof of the Thames Tunnel collapsed, and he fell down a burning ladder when the SS Great Western caught fire.  Brunel didn’t just design railways in Britain – he also worked in Italy, India and Australia!