Thursday 24th February

Good morning everyone! 

Here is an iSingPop assembly for you: assembly

The password is: palmsunday

Reading

Complete any reading challenges you have not yet completed and then play some of the skills games. 

Spelling task 

Use each of the spellings in a sentence. 

English Task 

Today we are going to begin planning our own poem that will reflect how we feel about what has happened in the last 12 months. 

In order to help you plan this I would like for you to look at this planning sheet and fill in the table with ideas for your stanzas. 

WALT: Plan a narrative poem

Maths Task 

Plat Times Tables Rock Stars for at least 15 minutes! 

Here is a video for you to watch. 

Your worksheet is here

Here are the answers

There are some further challenges here if you need them.

WALT: Calculate the area of a triangle 

Science 

This half term we are going to be looking at light and shadow. To do this, we are going to be using our scientific knowledge to solve a crime!! 

Here are the details of the crime: 

Burglary Reported! 

At approximately 10.40 on the morning of 12th April the laptop of Sally Bircumshaw, teacher of Physics at West Hollow Secondary School, was stolen from her classroom, complete with password.

Ms Bircumshaw expressed concern that her laptop contained detailed notes on an upcoming publication that she fears was the motivation for the theft. She explained that her ‘encrypted’ password was hidden high on the wall behind books on a shelf, but that the books had been moved, leading her to believe that the password was seen by the thief.

CCTV shows the suspect dressed in a t-shirt and jeans with a hat covering their head. A clear identification cannot be made. The suspect’s t-shirt and trousers appeared to change colour depending on the camera used. Witnesses describe the clothes as turquoise, yellow and bright pink at various times.

Witness sightings of the suspect’s shadow suggest they were anything from 5ft 11 to 9ft 8. One witness said that they saw an odd shape on the shadow,which they described as being the shape of a car ‘rear view’ mirror on a stick, but are not sure.


We have CCTV footage of a small beam of light being shone into the gymnasium of the school late evening on the 8th April 2016. This beam was trained on three specific points of the wall below the window through which we believe the suspect made their entry. External CCTV footage shows a figure shining a torch through a hole in the exterior wall, once on tip toes, once standing normally and once on their knees. This footage is hazy and the suspect cannot be identified, or key height established, as a result.

Today, you are going to begin by looking at the initial case files, the suspects and some first experiments to gather some information. 

Here are the first experiments for you to test your knowledge. Read them carefully and report what you have found out. Do this by writing subheadings in your book for example: 

Challenge 1: Does light travel in straight lines? 

After I shone a torch on the wall, I found out that.....When I used a mirror, the light.....this shows that.... 

WALT: Explore our knowledge of light