Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Week 12 – Summer Term This week we would like you to become virtual mountaineers…. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Geography Geography Geography/English Find out the name of the tallest mountain Find out what you would need to pack and Find out about the first person to ever reach in the world, where it is, how tall it is and take with you if you were going mountain the summit of Everest and create a fact how many people have managed to climb climbing. file. it. Create a fact file about this mountain Pack a virtual backpack of the things you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pykTLZZr-HQ https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts would need to take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqV_JaRnqQ /earth/mounteverest.html https://www.rei.com/dam/ea_printable_mount Maths/PE aineering_checklist.pdf Maths If you worked as a team with other Complete the worksheet/questions below. You members of your family, work out how English don’t have to print it out, the questions could many times you would each have to climb Complete at least 2 of the activities linked to be written into their workbook and worked out your stairs to reach different points on the photo attached. there. (E.g. how many climbs to https://www.pobble365.com/the- Checkout Mr Braiden’s video on our YouTube reach Base camp?) mountain-pass Channel, if you need to remind yourself how to do Set yourself the challenge: Can you climb these. to Base Camp or beyond. file:///N:/health-at-work-stair-climb-challenge- 2017.pdf Day 4 Day 5 On going English History/English  Read with an adult every day, talk about what Write the opening of a story based on Find out about the people who live in the you did and didn’t like about the book when you The or Bigfoot. . have finished.  Practise your fluency facts. Home Learning Pack for Year 4 For inspiration, if needed, use this link to https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-  Practise your multiplications to 12. watch the trailer for The Abominable if world/physical-features/mountains/mountain-case-  Maths- Mangahigh/TTRockstars; you can or use the pictures below. study/himalayas/living-in-the-himalayas/ https://app.mangahigh.com/assignments (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0NRJD- ICT below) 2ts Design a poster reminding yourself and any siblings  PE – try to walk or run 1 mile a day. Outside, Write a story of how you would help the Yeti how to stay safe when using a computer or iPad. in your homes, in your garden. get home. Use the link below, if you can, to help you.  Maths/PE – walk up and down stairs chanting See below for an example. your multiplications. Geography http://www.safetynetkids.org.uk/personal- Design a mountain rescue poster. Use the link safety/staying-safe-online/ https://digify.com/a/#/view/12e37ee749e049ec8 below, if you can, to help you. f2d371ec3b6494d See below for an example. You might find the above link useful if you are https://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/ after some extra Maths and English work for you child.

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Mount Everest Facts for Kids

Check out our fun Mt Everest facts for kids and enjoy learning about the highest mountain on Earth.

Find out where Mt Everest is located, how high it is, who the first people to reach its summit were, why climbing it can be dangerous and much more interesting trivia and information.

 At 8848 m (29029 ft), Mt Everest is the highest mountain in the world.  Mt Everest is located in the Himalayas mountain range on the border of and Tibet (China).  In 1865, The Royal Geographical Society gave Mt Everest its English name in honour of George Everest, a Welsh surveyor who was the British Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. The mountain has other names in languages such as Nepali and Tibetan.  The height of Mt Everest was first published in 1856, when it was known as Peak XV.  In 1953 the first successful ascent to the summit of Mt Everest was achieved by New Zealander and Nepali

sherpa .  There are two main climbing routes and many others that are are less frequently used. Since the first successful ascent in 1953, thousands have climbed to the summit of Mt Everest, hundreds have also died while attempting to do so.  Dangers that await climbers on Mt Everest include high winds, bad weather and altitude sickness.  In recent times the number of climbers attempting to reach the summit of Mt Everest has increased dramatically, causing concerns for both safety and the state of the mountain as climbers routinely leave litter, gear and other debris behind.  There is a South Base Camp located at 5364 m (17598 ft) and a North Base Camp located at 5150 m (16900 ft). Supplies are taken to these base camps and climbers will often stay there while acclimatizing to the high altitude and lower levels of oxygen.  Altitudes above 8000 m (26000 ft) are often referred to as the "Death Zone", a height that humans struggle to survive at for more than a few days.  Plants and animals struggle to survive under the extreme conditions of Mt Everest but birds have been seen at high altitudes and a type of moss grows at heights close to 6500 m (21325 ft).  Although Mt Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, its summit is only the 5th farthest from the Earth's centre. Because the Earth bulges at the equator, mountains such as Mt Chimborazo in Ecuador have summits that are farther away.

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One flight of stairs is equivalent to approximately 15 steps.

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Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Story starter! The mountain of High Hrothgar had stood proudly for thousands of years, casting a solemn shadow for miles around. Few dared to venture close to its base, let alone scale its heights, fearing what awaited at the summit. For one brave adventurer, the folk lore surrounding the mysteries of High Hrothgar provided an opportunity just too tempting to resist. Some called him courageous, others foolish, but it mattered not to him now. Bracing himself against the torrent of icy wind that rushed towards him down the narrow pass, the lone figure prepared himself for the challenge ahead. He took a deep breath, feeling the frozen air rush into his lungs, and took a bold step onto the path to High Hrothgar… Write the next paragraph to this story starter

Question time!

Who is the adventurer in the story?

Can you think of a good name for him?

Why does he want to climb High Hrothgar?

Why are people afraid of the mountain?

What do you think awaits him at the top?

What might the adventurer be carrying with him?

What would you take with you on an expedition such as this? Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Perfect picture!

Can you draw what the adventurer looks like? Think carefully about what kind of person he might be, and what he might be wearing/carrying.

Sentence challenge!

Can you use your senses to describe the mountain pass to High Hrothgar? What can you see/hear/smell/feel/taste? Think about the following things: the path wind trees snow ice cloud fog the summit voices stone air fear danger skin face

Sick sentences!

These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help? Could you add an adverb? The adventurer began to walk up the path. It was cold. It was slippery. It was steep. It was snowing. Home Learning Pack for Year 4

Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary, (born 20 July 1919, died 11 January 2008) was a mountaineer and explorer. He and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. They got to the top on 29 May 1953. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. During his teenage years, Hillary had attended Auckland Grammar School. Sir Edmund Hillary's fame came as a result of being the first New Zealander in the world to conquer Mt. Everest in Nepal. He is on the New Zealand five dollar note. He also climbed ten other mountains after Mount Everest, all of which are also in the Himalayas. Sir Edmund Hillary, (born 20 July 1919, died 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. He and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. They got to the top on 29 May 1953. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. During his teenage years, Hillary had attended Auckland Grammar School. Sir Edmund Hillary's fame came as a result of being the first New Zealander in the world to conquer Mt. Everest in Nepal. He is on the New Zealand five dollar note. He also climbed ten other mountains after Mount Everest, all of which are also in the Himalayas.

Early life Hillary was born to Percival Augustus Hillary and Gertrude Hillary, née Clark, in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 July 1919. His family moved to Tuakau (south of Auckland) in 1920, after his father (who served at Gallipoli) had gotten land there. His grandparents were early settlers in northern Wairoa in the mid 19th century after moving from Yorkshire, England. Hillary learned at Tuakau Primary School and then Auckland Grammar School. He finished primary school two years early, but he did not do very well at high school. At first, he was smaller than other students there and very shy so he felt safe with his books and often thought of a life filled with adventure. Every day, he rode a train to and from high school, and he often used this time to read. Learning how to box helped him become more confident. At age 16 his interest in climbing started during a school trip to Mount Ruapehu. Although very tall at 6 ft 5 in (195 cm), he was stronger than many of his fellow hikers. He learned about mathematics and science at The University of Auckland, and in 1939 he completed his first important climb, which was reaching the top of a mountain called Mount Ollivier. With his brother Rex, Hillary became a beekeeper during summertime, which allowed him to do climbing in the winter. Home Learning Pack for Year 4

Expeditions On 30 January 1948, Harry Ayres, along with Mick Sullivan, led Hillary and Ruth Adams up the south ridge of Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest peak. In 1951, Hillary was part of a British reconnaissance expedition to Everest led by , before joining the successful British attempt of 1953. In 1952, Hillary and George Lowe were part of the British team led by Eric Shipton, that attempted . After that attempt failed due to the lack of route from the Nepal side, Hillary and Lowe crossed the Nup La into Tibet and reached the old Camp II, on the northern side, where all the pre-war expeditions camped. 1953 Everest expedition The route to Everest was closed by Chinese-controlled Tibet, and Nepal allowed only one expedition per year. A Swiss expedition (in which Tenzing took part) had attempted to reach the summit in 1952, but was turned back from the summit by bad weather and exhaustion 800 feet (240 m) below the summit. During a 1952 trip in the , Hillary discovered that he and his friend George Lowe had been invited by the Joint Himalayan Committee for the approved British 1953 attempt and immediately accepted. Shipton was named as leader but was replaced by Hunt. Hillary considered pulling out, but both Hunt and Shipton talked him into remaining. Hillary was intending to climb with Lowe, but Hunt named two teams for the assault: and Charles Evans; and Hillary and Tenzing. Hillary, therefore, made a concerted effort to forge a working friendship with Tenzing. The Hunt expedition totalled over 400 people, including 362 porters, 20 Sherpa guides, and 10,000 lbs of baggage, and like many such expeditions, was a team effort. Lowe supervised the preparation of the Lhotse Face, a huge and steep ice face, for climbing. Hillary forged a route through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall. The expedition set up base camp in March 1953 and, working slowly, set up its final camp at the South Col at 25,900 feet (7,890 m). On 26 May, Bourdillon and Evans attempted the climb but turned back when Evans' oxygen system failed. The pair had reached the South Summit, coming within 300 vertical feet (91 m) of the summit. Hunt then directed Hillary and Tenzing to go for the summit. Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Snow and wind held the pair up at the South Col for two days. They set out on 28 May with a support trio of Lowe, , and Ang Nyima. The two pitched a tent at 27,900 feet (8,500 m) on 28 May, while their support group returned down the mountain. On the following morning Hillary discovered that his boots had frozen solid outside the tent. He spent two hours warming them before he and Tenzing, wearing 30-pound (14 kg) packs, attempted the final ascent. The crucial move of the last part of the ascent was the 40- foot (12 m) rock face later named the "Hillary Step". Hillary saw a means to wedge his way up a crack in the face between the rock wall and the ice, and Tenzing followed. From there the following effort was relatively simple. Hillary reported that both men reached the summit at the same time, but in The Dream Comes True, Tenzing said that Hillary had taken the first step atop Mount Everest. They reached Everest's 29,028 ft (8,848 m) summit, the highest point on earth, at 11:30 am. As Hillary put it, "A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top." They spent only about 15 minutes at the summit. Hillary took the famous photo of Tenzing posing with his ice-axe, but Hillary's ascent went unrecorded. BBC News attributed this to Tenzing's having never used a camera, but according to Tenzing's autobiography, Man of Everest, when Tenzing offered to take Hillary's photograph Hillary declined: "I motioned to Hillary that I would now take his picture. But for some reason he shook his head; he did not want it", Tenzing wrote. Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering, and Hillary left a cross that he had been given by John Hunt. Additional photos were taken looking down the mountain, to confirm that they had made it to the top and that the ascent was not faked.

The two had to take care on the descent after discovering that drifting snow had covered their tracks, complicating the task of retracing their steps. The first person they met was Lowe, who had climbed up to bring them hot soup. News of the expedition reached Britain on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and the press called the successful ascent a coronation gift. In return, the 37 members of the party received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal with MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION engraved on the rim. The group was surprised by the international acclaim they received upon arriving in Kathmandu. Hillary and Hunt were knighted by the young queen, while Tenzing – ineligible for knighthood as a Nepalese citizen – received the George Medal from the British Government for his efforts with the expedition.

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Home Learning Pack for Year 4 Geography /English Task find out about the people who live in the Himalayas and then write a diary entry of a day in the life of a Sherpa or a day in the small village of Puma in Nepal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/27130467 https://www.english-online.at/people/sherpas/sherpas-mountain-people-of-the- himalayas.htm#:~:text=Sherpas%20%2DMountain%20People%20of%20the%20Himalaya,Everest%2C%20the%20world's%20highest%20mou ntain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6c0mYwu5e0 https://www.tetongravity.com/video/culture/watch-a-beautiful-look-into-the-life-of-a- sherpa?bwf_dp=t&bwf_entry_id=57450&bwf_token_id=9622&bwf_token=Rvs5Ic21HjDPL675nznJLufnM

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Sherpas Sherpas are people who live in the north eastern part of Nepal, in the valleys of the Himalaya Mountains. There are about 40,000 Sherpa’s, many of which live near Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. Sherpas probably came to Nepal from Tibet in the early part of the 16th century. They still have many customs and traditions of the Tibetan people and they also dress in Tibetan clothes. Most sherpas are Tibetan Buddhists. They have no written language and worship the mountains around them, which they view as the home of the gods. Mount Everest, for example, is called Chomolungma, the Mother of Gods. At first the world did not know very much about the sherpas. They lived alone in their villages, traded goods and grew corn and potatoes. When the British started mountain climbing expeditions in the 20 th century they used sherpas as guides. With the help of yaks sherpas helped mountaineers bring their heavy loads into great heights. At first the world did not know very much about the sherpas. They lived alone in their villages, traded goods and grew corn and potatoes. When the British started mountain climbing expeditions in the 20 th century they used sherpas as guides. With the help of yaks sherpas helped mountaineers bring their heavy loads into great heights. Over the years sherpas have been admired for their physical strength. They need less oxygen to breathe and can work better at high attitudes and in thin air. Even today sherpas rely on walking to move around. There are no cars or other vehicles. In 1953 a sherpa named Tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, a mountaineer from New Zealand, became the first people to get to the top of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. Helping tourists get to the top of high mountains has become is a great source of income. While mountain climbers pay around $ 60,000 for an expedition, sherpas earn $2,000 and more on a trip. Some of them have even started their own business, or operate hotels and lodges for tourists. Even though sherpas know the region better than anyone else they risk their lives on expeditions. About a third of the people who have died trying to conquer Mount Everest have been sherpas. In the last few decades many international organizations have helped sherpas improve their life. A foundation set up by Sir Edmund Hillary has brought health care and modern medicine to remote villages. Water power plants and hospitals have also been set up. Home Learning Pack for Year 4 The tourist industry has made life easier for most sherpas. Many have adapted to a more western way of life even though some of them still live as their ancestors did many centuries ago.

Mangahigh- https://app.mangahigh.com/assignments children log in using personal login details. School ID is 421120 TTRockstars- https://ttrockstars.com/ children log in using personal login details. Children then click Play.

Once children have clicked play they can choose from a variety of different games online. Gig, studio and Soundcheck allow the children to play solo and practice their multiplications. Festival allows the children to play against the world. In Arena the children are able to play against their classmates.