Wednesday 3rd February

Daily News

The battle is under way! Score often and score big and help Curlews to get to their rightful place at the top of the table!

You may like to join this PE session this afternoon. Remember, you can always top up the learning on this page with other physical activity – Joe Wicks is back on YouTube during the lockdown or you can create your own PE opportunities (whilst dodging the showers we seem to be having at the moment).

Mr Simmons’ Joke of the Day

Maths

One of the most common places you will come across percentages in real life is in a shop when there is a sale, or when you may get paid interest. In these cases, as well as calculating the percentage, you also need to increase or decrease the original amount. Today’s video looks at how to do this.

Then there are some context questions that give you an opportunity to try this out yourself. Please send your workings to ClassDojo:

English

After writing the orientation and the ‘Bess’ section of the newspaper report yesterday, you are moving onto ‘Highwayman’ section today and the final paragraph, the re-orientation.

You may like to remind yourself about the task from watching the video here (from about the 9:30 mark).

Reading

I would like you to read for at least 30 minutes each day. You can get more ideas and suggestions of reading material from the Reading@Home section above.

Science

On Monday you started to look at ice based experiments. I asked you to start planning your own scientific investigation. As a reminder, the stages of the investigation planning are here:

• Come up with a question you would like to investigate.
• What is the independent variable? (the one thing you are going to change)
• What is the dependent variable? (the thing you are going to measure)
• What is the investigation question? (e.g. how does changing the independent variable affect the dependent variable?)
• Make a hypothesis – what do you think will happen?
• What are the other fixed variables?
• Run the experiment.
• Collect your results.
• Present your results.
• Was your hypothesis correct?

Please carry out your investigation (really try to make it as scientific as possible) and post on Dojo to let me know what you investigated and what you found out.

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