This term, our topic is The Romans so many of the activities are topic based.

Pre-Writing Activity:

‘The Invasion’

Look at the picture and jot down words that describe what you can see.

For example, green fields, dark forest.

You might not know what some of the things are, so guess or use your imagination...

Pause for thought...

Who or what are those things in the distance? Who is the person on horesback? What are the things in the sky? Where have they come from? What are they going to do?

Remember your class email address – Keep in touch! Peacocks@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk

Eagles@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk Toucans@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk Parrots@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk

We will be focussing on sentence structures using fronted adverbials. Fronted Adverbials

Fronted Adverbials go at the start of a sentence. They give detail to

say where/when/how often/how/how much. ALWAYS separate the fronted adverbial with a comma.

Pick the fronted adverbial that makes sense in these sentences:

___________________________, I visit my grandparents. In a moment/Every week ___________________________, I couldn’t go on stage. Overwhelmed/Once in a blue moon ___________________________, my brother will go to secondary school. Clearly/Next year ___________________________, the bank robber crept in. Without a sound/Under the bed ___________________________, there was a strange metal man. Cautiously/In the distance Can you spot what sort of fronted adverbial they are? E.g. When/how

Choose a fronted adverbial that makes sense for the sentences below:

___________________________, I jumped for joy as I scored a goal. ___________________________, I get to have a sleepover with my friends. ___________________________, the scared child turned around. ___________________________, Billy ran into the room. ___________________________, the goldfish gobbled up his food.

Say the sentence, choose the fronted adverbial, check it makes sense.

Choose a fronted adverbial, say the sentence, check it makes sense.

These sentences don’t make sense! Pick fronted adverbials that make sense.

Once in a blue moon, I won the race! ______________________ Often, my best friend threw the basketball to me. ___________________ Twice a week, the door slammed shut. ____________________ Anxiously, there was a big bang! _______________________ Upstairs, the brave mouse spoke to the Gruffalo. ____________________ Look at the pictures and think of some sentences about them. Can you make your sentences more detailed using fronted adverbials?

Read the sentence, choose a fronted adverbial, say the sentence to check it makes sense. Get some paper and a pencil to jot them down.

Can you explain what a complex sentence is? What is a fronted adverbial?

What punctuation should you ALWAYS use after a fronted adverbial? Say an example.

Year 3 Writing Get some paper and a pencil to have a go at the writing challenge.

The Invasion Fun challenge: Can you design your own giant robot? It could be friendly/helpful or

evil/wicked! Bronze Finish the sentences using the sentence

starters Bronze starters In the distance, Without warning, Obviously scared, On top of the hill, Nervously, Perhaps, Beneath him, High up,

Silver Write about the picture using fronted adverbials

Gold Use a range of fronted adverbials including your own (make sure that they are describing either when/where/how often/how/how much)

Platinum Make your description more exciting by using suspense in your writing.

Word Bank Horse Flag Robot Monster Hooves Aircraft Forest Clouds Fields Soldier Weapons Armour Metal helmet Iron shoulder plates Cavalry Protection

Battle Fighting Sword Birds Mountain Rocks

Picture

Example using fronted adverbials: In the distance, the climber could see a mountain. On top of the hills, there was snow. Without warning, he shouted a loud, “Hurray!” Never before had the man been that high up before. Cautiously, he stood up, balancing on the small rock. At the bottom of the rock, his friends waited.

Other Writing Ideas...

Write a song/rap Can you write a song with

lyrics about being a Roman Soldier?

Fact-file Create a fact-file about the Romans about, for example, their clothes,

food, religion or houses.

Glossary Guru Can you create a glossary about

words linked to the Romans? E.g. Amphitheatre: an

open circular or oval building with a central space surrounded by tiers of

seats for spectators, for the presentation of dramatic or sporting

events

Retrieval Time! Read the text and then answer the questions. You can answer them verbally or write your answers down on paper.

Read the poem inspired by the book ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort:

VOCABULARY- Do you know all the words? Make a list of the words that you don’t know how to say or don’t know their meaning. How can you find out what they mean? Ask an older person to help you go online to find out, or use a dictionary.

Spellings Remember to visit Spelling Shed online for interactive games to practise spellings! These sounds are the same, but the spellings are different:

I used my father’s binoculars to peer at a magnificent deer. The proud deer eerily stared right back at me – or so it seemed. Was he really aware of me – a lone sightseer lying low in the grass? Led by the buck, the herd of deer veered away from where I quietly lay, extremely still. I thought how glad I was that I had volunteered to observe the deer in the place of my father today. As the herd drifted in the forest, the proud deer turned and seemed to stare at me one last time. Was he sneering at me do you think?

Spelling challenge: step 1- Decide on which ‘ear’ sound has been used in words and write them down. step 2- Read the section of text, try to be speedy when you come to a ‘ear’ word. Identify and learn to read any other words in the text that you do not know. step 3- Read the section of text again, at least 3 more times, use a stopwatch to see if you can read faster each time, you should become more fluent. Extension: How many different words can you think of that have the ‘ear’ sound? Write them down and check you have chosen the right spelling.

Handwriting It’s really important to keep up with handwriting practice, joining your letters neatly. Get some paper and pencil to write these words joined up. Write each word at least 10 times. balloon

particular

their

February

address

definitely

determined

For parents only- there is an answer sheet to the maths questions at the back of the pack. Use your fluency skills to add, take-away, times and divide.

Addition (use the column method)

Subtraction (Use the column

method)

Multiplication (use the column method)

Division (Use short division which is sometimes called

‘bus stop method’)

719+133 873-56 123x4 34÷2

765+165 675-102 345x2 68÷4

198+542 123-32 543x5 142÷2

649+254 985-345 365x3 132÷3

601+543 468-123 87x8 95÷5

895+312 977-98 98x2 178÷2

231+465 146-98 724x2 69÷3

254+98 476-467 154x5 190÷5

591+167 111-88 347x8 280÷5

873+54 438-75 154x2 600÷5

Geometry- Shape Hunt! Here are 2D and 3D shapes, remind yourself of their names.

Challenge 1- Write a list of the shape names that are above. Challenge 2- Go on a shape hunt around your home. Can you find all of the shapes that you have listed? Statistics: Pictograms

This tells us how many children’s favourite fruits. 5 children chose apples.

How many chose bananas? How many chose strawberries? How many chose pears? How many chose grapes?

Challenge 1- Write down how many children chose the different school lunches. Challenge 2- How many more children chose chicken pie compared to cheese salad? Challenge 3-What was the most popular school lunch? Challenge 4-What was the least popular school lunch?

Create your own pictogram. Think about what question you want to ask e.g. How many different colour smarties there are in a packet. Platinum- List as many questions as you can about your pictogram.

Number Bonds Practise these calculations to become more fluent with number bonds within 20. You should be able to recall the number within 5 seconds. Challenge yourself with a timer to see how fast you are! A pencil and paper will be handy to check you have the right answers.

Geography For this activity you will need an atlas or access to the internet to look at a map of U.K. cities and towns. Did you know that Romans invented towns in Great Britain? They were full of fine buildings and temples. The map shows the Roman names of towns. Can you use a map to find out what they are called now?

Super Challenge! Place names in England ending in -chester -caster or -cester were named by the Romans. Can you list as many as you can find? For example, Doncaster

Design and Technology The Romans were the first in Britain to use coins to pay for things. Here are some examples:

Your challenge is to design and make your own Roman coins. Choose your own materials. Think about the colour and texture. Here are some ideas: Tin foil Paper Colouring crayons/felt tips Plasticine Cake Icing Biscuits Think about: How will get a circular shape? How will you get the writing and picture on the coin? Have you compared it to our coins today? We would love to see your coins when they are finished. Send us a photo, if you can, on our class e-mails!

Science – Cleaning Coins

Investigate different ways of cleaning coins.

Now try cola, vinegar, lemon juice or baking soda. Is there a difference when cleaning bronze coins or silver coins? What happened to the coins after using each of the liquids.

Present what you have found out to your family.

Computing – Roman Invasion Game Can you create your own Roman invasion board game? You could draw this out on paper first then design it using PowerPoint or a word document or create an animation using Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted Think about the following:

• The aim of the game • The instructions for the game • How many lives? • How a life is lost • How points are scored • How is the game won?

Play this game for further ideas. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/horrible-histories-romans-vs-celts

Global Day June 26th 2020 At Heathfield Primary and Nursery School we enjoy learning about the world we live in and learning from the different cultures of the world. This is something that we do all the time. However, Global day is an extra special time for us to celebrate and explore the art, history, geography, values and beliefs of people from different cultural backgrounds. Over the past few years we have also been learning about UNESCO.

UNESCO works all over the world to help protect special and important places, called World Heritage Sites. UNESCO World Heritage Sites might be a building, a river, part of the ocean, a forest, ruins of an ancient building or even a waterfall.

We would still like to celebrate Global Day this year and here are some of the things that we can all get involved with. First of all, choose a UNESCO World Heritage site that you would like to learn about. One is enough but you can do as many as you like. This website will help you. whc.unesco.org/en/list/

Make some bunting and decorate it using world flags. You could also learn some words in different languages and write them on the bunting.

Make a 3D model or create a piece of art about your UNESCO World Heritage site.

Create a fact file of your chosen UNESCO World Heritage site and include some facts about the country where your chosen site is located.

Make a travel guide.

Do some international cookery.

Finally, please take lots of pictures and share them using the school twitter account.

On Thursday 25th

June, we will be celebrating RSE day! RSE Day began in Nottingham in 2018 as a celebration of positive Relationships and Sex Education happening in the City. The day provides an opportunity for schools,

communities and families to explore and discuss healthy relationships, growing up, wellbeing, respect and resilience.

The theme for this year’s RSE day is ‘Books I Love about Love!’. It would be great if children from all year groups could share pictures of their day, including activities they have completed, or books they have shared.

ChalleNGe Nottingham are also commissioning artists to deliver virtual workshops throughout the day around relationship qualities: trust, respect, communication, cooperation and resilience. Information on how to access these will be posted on our Facebook page on RSE Day. More information and ideas for parents and carers to make the

most of RSE Day can be found here: https://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/sites/default/files/field/attachment/ 10%20ideas%20foro%20RSE%20Day%202020%20-%20parents%20%26%20carers_0.pdf

To prepare for the new statutory changes from September 2020, we are in the process of updating our RSE policy;

information on how you can access this and provide feedback will be sent out shortly. Thank-you for your continued support, we hope you have a wonderful day celebrating RSE Day! Don’t forget to send some photos to your class

email address ☺

Age Website

Birth to 4 https://cdn.literacytrust.org.uk/media/documents/RSE_Day_2020_book_list_ages_0-4.pdf

Ages 5 - 7 https://cdn.literacytrust.org.uk/media/documents/RSE_Day_2020_book_list_ages_5-7.pdf

Ages 7 - 11 https://cdn.literacytrust.org.uk/media/documents/RSE_Day_2020_book_list_ages_7-

11.pdf

To celebrate RSE Day on Thursday 25 June 2020, Read On Nottingham, together with Nottingham City Libraries, has created special book lists featuring books we love about love! Why not use the websites below to discover a new

book? If you don’t need a recommendation and already have a book you love about love, find somewhere comfy to relax

and someone you love to share it with!

Each link has recommendations for books about love, trust, resilience, respect, communication and co-operation.

Maths Answers

Addition (use the column method)

Subtraction (Use the column

method)

Multiplication (use the column method)

Division (Use short division which is sometimes called

‘bus stop method’)

852 817 492 17

930 573 696 17

740 91 2715 71

903 640 1095 44

1144 345 696 19

1207 879 196 89

696 48 1448 23

352 9 770 38

758 23 2776 56

927 363 308 120

cube sphere cylinder

pentagon

pyramid

square

cone triangle

cuboid hexagon

rectangle circle

How many chose bananas? 7 How many chose strawberries? 3 How many chose pears? 2 How many chose grapes? 4

Challenge 1- 5 veg las, 12 chick pie, 9 ch salad, 3 cott pie, 13 cass, 16 roast dinner. Challenge 2- 3 more Challenge 3- Roast Dinner Challenge 4- Cottage Pie