Dear Parents/Carers, We hope you have had a wonderful weekend. Thank you all for your support and hard-work with your child’s learning. Please keep sending us your lovely pictures, videos and messages either to our email address or on the Facebook page. We might be a bit delayed replying to emails but we are seeing and loving them all. Best Wishes, Miss Kennett, Miss Spiers, Mrs Rabone & Mrs Habib Maths Monday L.O. to identify Lines of symmetry Success Criteria: The imaginary line or axis along which you fold a figure to obtain the symmetrical halves is called the line of symmetry. It basically divides an object into two mirror-image halves. The line of symmetry can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal. There may be one or more lines of symmetry. Watch this video to help you understand lines of symmetry. https://youtu.be/VuxxoZ8dsg0 Tuesday 1. L.O. to explore Lines of symmetry Success Criteria First draw a pale dashed line as your line of symmetry. Next, begin colouring a square in the same place on either side of your line. 2. Remember that you can colour in a maximum of six squares. You can colour less to help you create more shapes. 3. Challenge yourself and create a few shapes with more than one line of symmetry. Finally, have fun. Wednesday L.O. to compare Symmetrical shapes Success Criteria Watch this video to help you see how to complete shapes according to the line of symmetry. https://youtu.be/0n_UHjptUmE You can use a mirror to help you. Place a flat mirror along the mirror line to help you see how the shape will look on the other side. Thursday 1. L.O. to investigate Symmetrical shapes Success Criteria Have fun. 2. Create an artistic symmetrical picture or pattern. You can be as creative as you like. Look at the pictures for some inspiration. Friday Create a catchy timetable song or rap for one of the timetables. Share it with your teacher and a friend or family member. Maybe it can be used in school to help teach other L.O. to practise classes the timetables. Using times table rock stars and Hit the button, practise Times Table Rock stars: your times tables. https://ttrockstars.com/ Challenge a family member to a timetable’s competition Hit the button: Success Criteria - to be able to recall times tables effectively https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Reading Monday https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=battle+of+hastings L.O. to understand the battle of Hastings In YouTube search “battle of Hastings” and select the below video: Watch the following YouTube video on the battle of Hastings. Once you have watched the video, create a fact file answering the below sections: Date of the battle: Number of soldiers the Normans had: Number of ships the Normans had: Normans landed where: What did the Normans build when they arrived in England?: How did the Normans break the Anglo-Saxon wall of defence?: How is Harold believed to have been killed? (2 answers): Tip: It might be easiest to re-watch the video again and fill in the answers as the video plays. CHALLENGE Who did the Anglo-Saxon’s get their battle style from? A marching wall of interlinked shields… that sounds familiar. Success Criteria: - understand how the battle unfolded - understand how Harold lost the battle - retrieve key information from the video - use prior knowledge to make links with other events in history Tuesday Why is it important to remember the battle? L.O. to understand why the battle is important The Battle of Hastings was extremely important for the history of England as The battle of Hastings took place over 950 years ago. Why do it completely changed who was in charge. The Anglo-Saxons had ruled the we still talk about it today? Read the following text and answer land for over 600 years since the Roman times. Now, the Normans had taken the questions below over, changes were coming. 1. How many years had the Anglo-Saxon’s ruled for before the Normans arrived? They took over the land, so people who worked in the fields now had new 2. What types of buildings can you see today that have Norman bosses. The new rulers also gave England better links to France and the rest features on them? of Europe, and the designs of England’s buildings changed to suit the Norman 3. What two languages did the government, Church and desires. You can still see some of these features today in buildings like nobility start talking in as a result of the invasion? churches and castles. 4. What percentage of the population were considered peasantry and lower classes? The English language suffered greatly as a result of the Norman Invasion as 5. Give two examples of English traditional names. 6. Give two examples of Norman names the English began to French and Latin became the new languages of the government, Church and use. the nobility. English was now associated with the uncivilised and uneducated. The Normans also brought their drinking habits with them; gone were the Success Criteria: days of the famous Anglo-Saxon mead hall (a large room where people could - retrieve key information from a text feast and drink together), eclipsed by the new French fashion of wine- - understand the importance of the Battle of Hastings drinking. - understand why we still talk about it today However, the peasantry and lower classes (the vast majority of the population, an estimated 95%) continued to speak English - considered by the Normans a low-class, vulgar language - and the two languages developed in parallel, only gradually merging as Normans and Anglo-Saxons began to intermarry. One of the most enduring cultural changes was the adoption of French names, at the expense of the more traditional Anglo-Saxon ones. In an attempt to imitate their new conquerors, many English chose to abandon the traditional names like ‘Godwin’, ‘Harold’, or ‘Ethelred’, in favour of names French names like ‘William’, ‘Henry’ or ‘Robert’. Even in the last decade, William still features in the top 10 baby names for boys in England and Wales today. Wednesday L.O. to investigate the Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry (pronounced Bay-O), in spite of its name, is not really a tapestry. However, it is an important historical item that gives information surrounding the events of the invasion of 1066. Read the information about the tapestry and then answer the questions below: 1. What are the measurements on the tapestry? 2. How many scenes are depicted? What does it look like? 3. Who is shown shipwrecked off the coast of France? 4. What do scholars think is on the missing part of the tapestry? The tapestry is 70 metres long and just under 50 centimetres wide… That is 2 metres wider 5. Names embroidered are in what language? 6. “The Bayeux tapestry is an important piece of history but it needs than a professional football pitch! It was made from linen and used eight different colours. to be remembered that it was commissioned by the winners and The linen itself is a light brown colour but this is the result of age. It was made in eight pieces therefore, some of the information may be biased.” What do you think biased means? which were later joined together and the end of the tapestry is missing. The tapestry itself contains about 50 different scenes. One researcher studying the tapestry Success Criteria -use the information in the text to answer the questions counted 626 human figures, 202 horses, 55 dogs, and 505 other animals. -skim read to find the answers The Story Think of the tapestry as the first ever comic strip. It shows the Norman conquest of England in 1066. It was commissioned by the winners of the invasion (the Normans) and attempts to justify William of Normandy’s invasion. The tapestry starts by showing Duke Harold Godwinson, the brother-in-law to the English king, Edward the Confessor. Harold had been shipwrecked off the coast of France in 1064. He was rescued by William, Duke of Normandy and the tapestry shows Harold swearing an oath to William to support William’s claim to the English throne. There is some doubt as to whether this oath was actually made or was just made up to bolster William’s claim to the throne. The tapestry then shows William preparing to invade England and then setting sail for England. The final scenes of the tapestry show the Battle of Hastings. One of the scenes shows the death of Harold (who, at this point, was the king of England). The tapestry shows Godwinson getting an arrow through his eye. There is some debate as to whether the figure depicted in the tapestry is Godwinson but we do know Godwinson definitely died during the Battle of Hastings. There is another figure that is being shown cut down by a Norman horseman which some scholars think could also be Harold. Some scholars believe that the missing piece of the tapestry showed William being crowned king. Where was it made? Just as people are unclear about who commissioned the tapestry to be made, people are also unclear about where it was made. Most scholars agree that the tapestry was made in England given the recognized skill of women embroiderers in England. In addition, the names were spelled in the English style of Latin. The Bayeux tapestry is an important piece of history but it needs to be remembered that it was commissioned by the winners and therefore, some of the information may be biased.