Learning Project Term 5 Week 2 Year 2 Weekly Maths Tasks Weekly Reading Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) (Aim to do 1 per day)  Work on Times Table Rockstars – use  Use Owl or Oxford Reading your individual login to access this Buddy: (https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and (5 sessions on ‘studio’). https://www.oxfordreadingbuddy.com/uk) to  Play on ‘The Mental Maths Train Game’ read a new book. Complete the quiz at - practise adding and subtracting. the end. Log ins and passwords are in https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths- your books. games/mental-maths-train  Listen to Mr Hicks read a book (see  Practice subtracting these two digit Instagram for this story). Did you like numbers. Keep an eye on Instagram the story? What was your favorite part? for a tutorial on the number line and What parts didn’t you like? partitioning methods to help you.  Find a poem you like and read it. You 26 - 12 = 34 - 15 = could have a look here: 36 - 22 = 44 - 16 = https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/) Discuss 45 - 34 = why you like it with an adult or sibling.  Complete a page of your Maths SATs Does it have any rhyming words? revision books.  Learn part of/all of your poem off by  Here are some train parts that heart and perform it. You could record is going to share equally with his yourself and send it to your teacher on friend . Can you find out Instagram. how many they will both have each if  The title of a story is ‘The Runaway they share the parts equally? Train’. What do you think will happen in this story? Discuss or write down your ideas.

Weekly Phonics/Spelling Tasks Weekly Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) (Aim to do 1 per day)  Practise this week’s  Create a ‘ladder of power’ using the spellings on spelling shed. adjectives big, cold and nice. Try to think  Phonics play – play online of synonyms that gradually get more using the free resources. powerful. Here’s an example with ‘hot’ There are games on here up blistering to phase 6 level. scorching www.phonicsplay.co.uk boiling username: march20 summery password: home hot  Use a dice to practice your  Write a letter to Brunel. Think about how weekly spellings a letter should be laid out. What questions might you ask Brunel?  Find out all about the bridges that Brunel designed. Write 5 facts about them. Use one of these conjunctions in each sentence; ‘and, so, because, but, when’  Watch this video of a Great Western broad gauge (Based on one of Brunel’s designs)  Write a silly story using as many of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urAwB this week’s spellings as you can. 6i1qzU Write down as many verbs and  Play the egg hunt game using your adverbs as you can to describe the spellings from this week different moving parts of the train. E.g. https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/g the steam is puffing quickly. ames-610628.htm  Write an acrostic poem to describe Brunel using the letters in his name, we’ve started it off for you… Black hats and long tail coats R U N E L

Other activities (to be completed through the week) This term we are going to be learning all about the . Your tasks this week all relate to finding out a little bit more about him.

How have the railway works changed? The Outlet Centre in Rodbourne used to be the works, used by Brunel to build lots of different trains. Have a look through the photos in this gallery: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/image_galleries/historic_swindon_railway_works_gall ery.shtml?38 Can you work out what those places look like now? How have they changed? What is different? Make a list of the changes you can see between then and now. Train Workout Can you come up with a new exercise routine inspired by Brunel? Come up with 10 different moves inspired by Brunel. Can you make a bridge with your body? Can you show how a train moves? Either write instructions for your workout or video it and share with your teacher so that everyone else can have a go!

Brunel Timeline Find out when these events happened in Brunel’s life and put them onto a timeline in chronological order. Brunel was chosen to be chief engineer Brunel married The Box on the Great Western Railway. Mary Horsley. was finished. Brunel won a competition to build the Brunel was Brunel died. Clifton Suspension Bridge and work born. starts.

STEAM Museum Virtual tour Take a virtual tour of the Steam Railway Museum in Rodbourne: https://www.steam-museum.org.uk/ After you have taken the virtual tour around the museum write up your findings. Tell me what you did and what you found out. Include what you saw in the museum in the correct order you saw it in and add in some information about the different things you find on the tour. You could present this by writing it up, typing it or as a PowerPoint.

Paddington Brunel also designed and built platforms and train stations including train station in . Find out 5 facts about Paddington Train station and then create your own train station. You could sketch, paint, build or use any materials you like. Send your pics to your class Instagram page. This video might help you with drawing the arches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51BdBPCzlU

Instagram: even_swindon_plymouth19_20 totnesclass even_swindon_newtonabbot19_20 We will speak to parents about the online phonics lessons when we call this week.

Local Area Walk 3. Intro to outlet and GWR train works

1. Wheels; works made many types of wheel sets and two types are displayed here. The larger wheels are ‘drive wheels’ designed for locomotive trains. The smaller wheels are This building is the old works ‘wagon wheels’ designed for carriages designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and and wagons. Daniel Gooch. They opened in 1843.

4. Severn Valley Train 2. Hooter Bell 7819 Hinton Manor is a Great Western Railway locomotive. It was built here in 1939 and was used on the train line until November 1965.

5. Train street You are now standing in front of the ‘hooter You are now standing in house’. The building that houses the old ‘Train Street’ of the Great hydraulic power plant for the Great Western Western Railway works. Railway Works. This is where all of the It is a huge bell that clanged on top of the trains would be put Great Western Railway Works. But as the together and tested. town grew, it wasn’t loud enough. It sounded 6. Model Railway at regular intervals every morning to tell This model railway was workers when it was time to go to work and inspired by some of sounded again at the end of the day shift to Brunel’s inventions and warn the wives of Swindon their husbands creations. Can you see were due home soon. any of his designs? It was loud enough to be heard more than three miles away. Up on the roof you can see the hooter’s two rooftop brass domes that 7. Brass Finishers Shop generated such a powerful sound. It was To your right you can see blasted at 7.30am. If workers heard that and the old brass finishers hadn’t clocked in, they were late and lost half shop of the Great an hour’s wages. It sounded for the last time Western Railway Works, at 4.30pm on March 26, 1986, to declare the also known as ‘T’ shop. end of the final shift at the once-great works.

8. Weight Gauge 15. The Hooter Express The weight gauge was used to This mini- train is named weigh metals and other materials after the twin brass domes that came into the works to be we saw as we came in. used. Legend has it that the

sound of the hooter could

be heard from 25 miles 9. Flywheel away. Pieces of machinery 16. Tank Shop used in the engine You are now standing in works. the former tank shop of the Great Western 10. Coppersmiths Railway Works known as From 1870 this buiolding L2. contained ‘K’ shop 17. Overhead Crane 1 (coppersmiths), the white metal shop which made up the wagon Four of the cranes on the works ceiling were built here in 11. Toolmaker’s Shop 1884. They could lift up to 10 tons and were used to move Built between 1890 and 1900 heavy pieces of equipment known as ‘T’ shop. and water tanks of the trains.

18. Overheard Crane 2

12. The Walking Crane This crane hangs from a large Built in 1923, this crane was piece of wood rather than named the walking crane metal. The crane was moved by because it could move around hand and allowed pieces of on specially laid rails on the equipment to be moved from floor. It could lift up heavy one place to another. objects and fittings up to 4 tons. 19. Shop

You are now standing in the 13. The Wagon Works former machine shop of the Great Western Railway works In 1846 the wagon works built in 1874 also known as opened. It had wagon rails ‘W’ shop. running into each bay to allow space for the wagons to be 20. Great Western Wagons painted. These are some of the 14. Boiler Shop wagons made in the You are now standing in the former Great Western Wagon boiler shop of the Great Western Shop Railway works known as ‘V’ Shop. This Break for sketching and snack. is where the boilers would be made to power the trains. 21. Isambard House Brunel had difficulty providing accommodation for the employees at the The original wheel machine Swindon railway works and the solution shop and now refurbished was to build a model village, using Bath industrial units. stone (most probably from the cutting out of ) and stone from the Swindon quarries. 22. The Engine House Each road was named after the The national monuments record destinations of trains that passed nearby - centre is now located in a , Bath, Taunton, London, Oxford building which once contained and Reading among them - and was built the pump house, offices and in two blocks of four parallel streets, not stores. dissimilar in appearance to passing trains.

23. The Worker’s Tunnel All the houses are identical on the inside.

This is the workers tunnel which 27. The Glue Pot linked the works directly to the Swindon railway village and 3 were built for the which now forms the link railway workers when the between the works site and the town railway village was built. centre. Workers would have hurried along The Glue Pot gets it’s this tunnel in the mornings and evenings unique name from the when they heard the hooter. It passes railway coachbuilders who right underneath the train tracks. would bring their gluepots with them when they took their breaks and would 24. Daniel Gooch Place place their pots on the central stove to To celebrate 175 years since keep them hot. the Great Western Railway 28. The Cricketers works were opened this plaque was laid to A part of Brunel's Railway Village commemorate Sir Daniel Gooch who and originally its only fully originally put forward the idea to licensed house, the Cricketers Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Railway opened its doors in 1847. The works to open here. name came from its proximity to the Cricket Field. 25. Alleyways of the railway village 29. Medical Fund Hospital

The village wasn't the nicest place to It was a world first. It live pre-1970 with nearly all the was very dangerous houses having outside toilets! working in the Railway Factory. There was at least one death or 26. The Railway Village disablement every

The Railway Village was planned when week and also a lot of disease in the the Great Western Railway Company's Village. All the workers paid a proportion 7ft-wide, broad gauge line reached of their wages towards the Swindon in 1840. facility, which grew from provision of just 33. The Turntable a doctor to a true ‘cradle to grave’ service. Old railway turntable Some claim that the used to get new GWR Medical Fund Society was used as trains onto the main the blueprint for the NHS. There was tracks. Bottelinos is ultimately also a sickness fund housed inside the old Pattern Store. if workers were too ill to work, an eye clinic, an undertaker and funeral service, dentists, chiropodists, a pharmacy and public baths.

30. The Baker’s Arms

There used to be a shop above the where the villagers could buy bread and cakes, hence the name.

31. GWR School

The class size in 1847 was 168 pupils (to one teacher!) The school was very strict. Pupils

were suspended or expelled for one example of poor behaviour.

32. The Water Tower

The function of this tower changed several times. Some say that it provided water for the steam engines to top up when they arrived at Swindon. There is an opportunity here to talk about why steam engines needed water and what other fuel they needed etc. Others say that it provided water for the Village itself (in addition to the wells and pumps) and the factories on the other side of the line. It also provided water for the G.W.R. fire engine. The tall structure to the left of the water tower was used by the fire brigade to hang out their canvas hoses to dry.