Topic Homework in Year 5:

This term in Year 5, we are looking at the Titanic. Please encourage your child to extend their learning at home, by researching and completing these creative homework tasks. We would like to be able to display some great examples in the classroom!

Design a life jacket using Make a model of the Titanic. Design a poster for a brand new materials that would help cruise liner and create a ticket for someone stay afloat and stay Use images to help you add this new cruise liner. warm in cold water. details. You could even draw an image Remember to make the poster about what the inside might look persuasive and engaging. Think back to properties of like. materials in Science.

Write a story, diary entry or Find out about the food on Explore sinking and floating. poem about being a passenger board Titanic. Write a menu for Use materials around the house to on board Titanic’s voyage. 1st, 2nd or 3rd Class passengers. invent something that will allow a £1 coin to float. You could try cooking the menu Keep a record of your investigation. at home. Don’t forget to bring in a photo if you do.

Design/make a ‘porthole Write/imagine you are Thomas Design a coin to commemorate the picture’ showing what could be Andrews in 1909 the man who 100th anniversary of the sinking of seen through different windows designed the Titanic and write a the Titanic in 2012. of the Titanic. letter to Harland and Wolff to persuade them to build your Think about what you might see ship “The Titanic” even though it before and during its journey. will cost £7.5 million to build.

Research the passenger Molly Research what else was going on Research the types of jobs that Brown and explain why she in the world at the time the people have on different types of earned the nickname “The Titanic was built. ships. Unsinkable Molly Brown” For example you could find out For example you might what was life like for people? make a fact file about: What was school like in 1912? • Captain Smith • Robert Hichens • Second Officer •