Learning Project Term 5 Week 4 Year 2 Weekly Maths Tasks Weekly Reading Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) (Aim to do 1 per day)  Use grouping to solve these division  Use Oxford Owl or Oxford Reading problems. Look out for a tutorial on Buddy: (https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and Instagram. https://www.oxfordreadingbuddy.com/uk) to 15 ÷ 5 = read a new book. Complete the quiz at 20 ÷ 2 = the end. Log ins and passwords are in 30 ÷ 10 = your books.  9 ÷ 3 = Read the story attached below (The hunt 25 ÷ 5 = for the secret carriage) and predict what you think will happen next. Write or draw

how you think this story will end.  Measure 10 items around your house Include adjectives to describe. to the nearest cm. Write statements  Re-read ‘The hunt for the secret carriage’ using the <, > and = symbols to and write down all the different words compare them e.g. ending with suffixes you can find. (e.g. – Pencil 5cm < Teddy 10cm ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ed, -ing etc.) How

many can you find?  Listen to this 5x tables song.  Read a chapter or one of your favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK books and look at the front cover OpFBXmxhY Can you create your own carefully. Design a new front cover for version? Share it with your teacher. your favourite book. Remember to include

the title and author’s name.  Choose 3 coins (up to £1) at a time,  Listen to Mrs James read chapters 1 and add them together to calculate their 2 of ‘The Story of Isambard Kingdom total. E.g. 10p + 10p + 5p = 25p. ’ by Amanda Mitchison (see Do 10 of these. Instagram for this story or check out

this YouTube link;  Work on Times Table Rockstars – use https://youtu.be/c2AOWPhOkHw - Chapter your individual login to access this 1 (5 sessions on ‘garage’). https://youtu.be/mx48RJQeYgA - Chapter

2)

Answer these questions:

- How did Marc Brunel help his son to

get better at drawing?

- Why did Isambard get sent to France?

- Why was it so dangerous to work on

the Thames ?

Weekly Phonics/Spelling Tasks Weekly Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) (Aim to do 1 per day)  Practise this week’s  The Mechanics Institute in spellings on spelling (opposite the Glue Pot) was built as a shed. social centre for the Railway Workers. It is not used any more, and needs redeveloping. What would you turn it into? (Be as creative as you like, eg. a trampoline centre or a pancake restaurant) Write about what you would turn it into and give three reasons why it is a good idea.

 Watch one of the daily phonics lessons on youtube

 Brunel solved many problems, such as

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_ allowing people to travel faster across FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured the UK and to other countries. If you could build a bridge from your house to  Make a set of flashcards to practice somewhere else, where would it be? (This your spelling words. When you look could be somewhere real, like Legoland, at your flashcard, read the word and or somewhere made up.) Write a pretend then spell it out loud. recount about travelling over your bridge Example- there t-h-e-r-e to your place and what you did there.

  Can you think of a word related to Look at the picture below of the boy Brunel for each letter of the alphabet? hanging onto the train and write the Make a list of letters from A-Z and answers to these questions in full think of a word beginning with each sentences. 1. How do you think the boy is feeling? letter. 2. How do you think the man is feeling?

3. Who is the man on the platform?  Play spelling splat- write each of this 4. Where do you think the train is going? week’s spelling words on a piece of paper, spread them around the floor.  Listen to this poem called ‘From a Ask a family member to spell a word Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis out to you. Try and splat the correct Stevenson (Read by Michael Rosen) word as fast as you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyMMIM XI7M Then write a list of things you might see out of a train window.

 Think of as many words ending in –ful or –less as you can. Make sure you understand what they mean and put them into sentences.

Other activities (to be completed through the week) The Railway Village The railway village was designed by Brunel to house the workers that had come to Swindon to work in the Railway works. He designed a model village on open farmland two miles from the small hilltop market town of Swindon, using (most probably from the cutting out of Box tunnel) and stone from the Swindon quarries. Each road was named after the destinations of trains that passed nearby - Bristol, Bath, Taunton, London, Oxford and Reading among them - and was built in two blocks of four parallel streets. Can you design your own railway village for the workers? What would it need? Shops, schools, play spaces, houses etc. Draw a map of your own railway village, labelling the different features.

Thames Tunnel Soundtrack Brunel also designed the revolutionary new . The tunnel was built underneath the Thames river in London. It was the first tunnel ever to have been built underneath a river. This is a picture of the workers digging the enormous tunnel. Close your eyes and try to imagine what it must have been like in there. Dark, damp, water dripping. What sounds might you have heard if you were stood in that tunnel? Can you create some sounds that you might have heard using things from around your house?

Swindon station Look at the pictures below of Swindon Station. The first one is from the 1890s and the second one is modern day. Write two similarities and two differences you can see.

Great Western Railway Stations Use Google Maps to find these stations that are all on Brunel’s . Plot them on your own map of the UK (template below). What do you notice about the names of the stations? (They are all classes at school!) London Paddington Newton Abbot Totnes Plymouth Bristol Penzance

Job advert The Great Western Railway created many different jobs. Can you remember/find out about some of the different jobs that were available? Then create a poster advertising for a new job for one of them for someone to work at the GWR. Remember to include commands and other sentence types. (E.g. Would you like to be a steam train driver? Then apply now.) Send your pictures of your posters to your class Instagram page. Instagram: even_swindon_plymouth19_20 totnesclass even_swindon_newtonabbot19_20

The Hunt for the Secret Carriage

Brunel put his finger to his lips, silently. “Shhhhh. I think I can hear footsteps.” Brunel and his friend, Daniel Gooch felt helpless as they hid in the shadows of the dark train tunnel and held their breath. Only the wind and the rain could be heard outside, tap, tap, tapping on the roof of the tunnel above them. All was dark.

Suddenly, two bright and colourful lights flashed into the tunnel like the eyes of a fearless lion searching for its next meal. “So, the map to find the secret carriage is hidden somewhere in this tunnel?” asked the first man. “Yes. But we must find it before those two train engineers do.” Brunel looked thoughtful and seemed to have an idea. He pointed towards a beautiful, large and ancient crystal hanging at the top of the tunnel. It was starting to wobble.

The careless two men had noticed this too and marched towards it, excitedly. The crystal began to shake and fell onto the floor, hitting one of the men’s feet. “That looked painful.” Whispered Gooch. Then he noticed Brunel’s hand. In it, he clutched a piece of paper. It was the colour of autumn leaves and was ripped and tattered like an old newspaper. Both looked hopeful and silently waited for the men to get back up.

Eventually, the footsteps and the voices moved away and Brunel and Gooch stepped out of the shadows. “Let’s go.” said Brunel. “Go where?” asked Gooch. Brunel showed her the tattered piece of paper he had been clutching and said,” To London. It’s where we will find our first clue.” What a wonderful discovery! Seconds later, the two fearless and brave engineers escaped into the night.

What will happen next?