HOME LEARNING

YEAR 4

13/07/2020

Morning Message Good morning year 4! Here is the zoom meeting ID, which will be the same for all lessons. 812-8477-8145 Your parents will receive the password via email. We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful weekend and you are ready for your final week of school before the summer holidays. This week we will be finishing off the units of geometry unit in maths and for English we will be using a picture of a letter in a bottle to help us write our story. Please also remember to log on to Accelerated Reader when you finish a book to complete a quiz. Continue practising your spellings and multiplication tables. For this, you will be using Purple Mash-Monster Multiplication. Please make sure you read every day.

Let us have an awesome day everyone! Ms Foster, Ms Greenaway & Mr Sowa

Today’s Picture

Writing

This week, we will be writing a story based on the picture above and following on from this: Roger was feeling tired after his long walk on the beach. His legs were heavy after trudging all evening through the Cornish sand. He was about to turn for the cliff path and home when his eyes were briefly blinded by the setting sun reflecting off an object in the sand. Bending down to investigate, he discovered a clear bottle half-buried in the sand containing what appeared to be a letter rolled up within. Roger sat down, uncorked the bottle, withdrew the parchment and read… Your job is to write 3 parts to a story: 1. The letter. 2. A historical flashback - as a third person narrative - telling a dramatic scene about why the letter writer had to throw the letter into the water. Leave on a cliffhanger. 3. A newspaper report telling the story from an alternative angle

LO: to plan a story Today, we will be thinking about what the letter says and what happened before the letter was thrown into the water. Draw three circles and brainstorm ideas like below:

Written from the captain of a

merchant sea vessel in 1873

Letter Started to feel

rocking on boat –

giant waves.

Begging for

someone to find

bottle and send

help

Written from the

captain of a merchant

sea vessel in 1873

Attacked by a giant

squid – large

tentacles reaching

into boat and

pulling sailors in!

vessel in 1873

Tells the story of

the ship was

transporting sugar

from West Indies

vessel in 1873

Flashback

Newspaper

report

Ship starts rocking back to forth

in waves. Suddenly, tentacle

reaches over the side of the

ship and pulls a poor sailor into

the water!

Crew member in crow’s

nest. Shouts out that he

can see something in water

up ahead. Looks like

massive arms – everyone

ignores him because he’s

often getting things mixed

up and forgot his glasses!

ignores him because he’s

often getting things

mixed up and forgot his

glasses!

Crew try to fight squid off

but more it has managed

to climb on board. Captain

hurriedly writes message

and throws into water in

bottle.

1873 Captain James Moore – in

charge of large sailing ship.

Strict boss -works crew hard.

Bald headed but a thick beard

Authorities believe that

the crew must have

decided to steal ship’s

contents and run away.

Nothing missing from

vessel though.

Last known sightings

were of the boat

leaving Jamaica

No crew members

found

Report from 1873

telling of a ghost ship

found drifting off the

Irish coast.

Other ideas:

group of children were shipwrecked on a desert island young boy stowed away to sea with pirates girl stranded on a wooden crate floating at sea after ship sank

Key focus for today:

- Use fronted adverbials at the start of a new paragraph to move the story to show

action.

Examples:

- Suddenly, Tom heard a loud bang! - A few moments later, Tom jumped as heard a loud bang. - Speech to show interaction between characters.

- Remember new speaker new line and to punctuate speech correctly.

Reading

Celebrating the NHS What is the NHS? The initialism of NHS stands for National Health Service: a group of organisations that provide medical care for people living in the UK. Staff working for the NHS support the health and wellbeing of the population. An estimated 1.5 million people work for the NHS including: cleaners, cooks, doctors, nurses, midwives, office staff and paramedics. Every single person‘s role is important for the NHS to work effectively as a health system for the country.

When Was the NHS Founded? Before the founding of NHS, only affluent people could afford to access hospital care or seek medical help; visit to a healthcare professional would cost money. Therefore, many people did not have access to the medical care that they needed. After the Second World War, Aneurin Bevan became the Minister of Health in the Labour government. He started the National Health Service on 5th July 1948. Mr Bevan wanted a system which provided medical care that was free for everyone to access within the UK. What Makes the NHS Special? The NHS was established to ensure that everyone could access medical help, treatment and advice regardless of their financial situation. However, it is expensive to provide medical care for a whole country and so every working adult pays taxes to the government. The Commonwealth Fund conducted a study of eleven countries and ranked each healthcare system: the NHS was ranked first for quality of care and efficiency. Many people consider themselves lucky to have access to the NHS in the UK. While there are some countries which have government-funded healthcare, other nations operate very differently. In some parts of the world, people without insurance (or who can’t afford treatment) would not be able to access medical care. There are also places where quality of care you receive will be dependent on what you can afford. How Did the NHS Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic? During the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NHS staff were praised for their bravery and self-sacrifice. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have risked their own lives to care for other people.

A total of seventeen buildings around the UK were converted into hospital facilities to deal with the pandemic. Many professional (who had left or retired from the NHS) were asked to return to help. How Have We Been Celebrating Our NHS? During the coronavirus pandemic, the British people showed their gratitude towards NHS staff in several ways: Sir Captain Tom Moore became renowned across the UK when, to mark his 100th birthday, he walked 100 length of his garden using his walking frame. In doing so, he raised over £32m for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic. During what was referred to as ‘lockdown’, families were advised to stay home to prevent the spread of the

virus. People could only leave their homes once a day for exercise and were instructed not to meet with anyone from outside their own household. Children and their families made and displayed rainbows in their homes as a way of spreading hope and thanking the NHS for their amazing work. At 8.00 p. m. on Thursday evenings, a round of applause could be heard

across the nation as people clapped and cheered for the NHS from their doorsteps. Some found other creative ways of making noise such as banging saucepans, beeping car horns and playing instruments. This was to show their appreciation for the key workers who were going to work to keep everyone safe. What Might the Future Hold for the NHS? The NHS cost the country around £153 billion every year. Over recent years, there has been a lot of debate amongst politicians as to whether or not the NHS should be privatised. Privatisation is when a service is no longer run by the government but by private companies (the rail service has been privatised) Those in favour of privatisation argue that people are now living around thirteen years longer than they did when the NHS was established: the NHS is becoming more expensive to operate. Day1: Your extract for this week is about Celebrating the NHS. You must read the extract out loud to a family member practising using volume, tone and expression.

As you read the text underline or make notes of any words that you do not understand in your home learning writing book.

Children to access Accelerated Reader whilst at home. Please follow the link below to the exact same page as the children have seen in school: https://ukhosted3.renlearn.co.uk/1922510/Public/RPM/Login/Login.aspx?srcID=s

Maths

Year 4 Power Maths Book 4C 13-07-20 Pages: 114 -116

Geometry

Vocabulary: quadrilateral, triangle, regular, irregular, interior angle, angle, acute, obtuse, reflect, right angle, symmetrical, isosceles, scalene, equilateral, line of symmetry, reflective symmetry

Now complete pages 114 – 116 in your Power Maths books. Tuesday and Thursday: Go on the Mathletics website to complete the tasks that have been set. https://www.mathletics.com/uk/

Weekly Spellings Spelling focus for the week: We are revising the statutory spelling words for Year 4.

hexadecagon rhombus trapezium

purpose reign separate

straight strength parallelogram

equilateral obtuse weight

crescent strange scalene

You should know what the word means and be able to use it in a sentence.

Foundation Work (for the week)

Science

Food chains This week you are going to find out what a food-chain. Before you make one do some research. Here are some links https://www.schoolsofkingedwardvi.co.uk/ks2-science-year-4-2c-animals-food-chains/ (the video on this one is great) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLq2datPo5M

If you are unable to print the picture below do not worry, just write their names into a food chain in your book. See how many food chains you can make. Hint- There are over 10.

When you are confident that you know what a food chain is and can explain them using the correct vocabulary go to Purple mash 2Do and create 2 food chains-

1. A food chain that exists on the school embankment (hint, use the pondweed as a

starting point)

2. A food chain that could exist in the hot savanna grass lands of Africa.

Then do the quick quiz which is also set as a 2Do. Good luck, I will be checking and marking your work on Friday afternoon.

Diary

Write a diary of what work and activities you did today. Remember to include your emotions and opinions.