MSJ Weekly Tasks

Year Group: 6 Week commencing: Monday 4th May 2020 Weekly Reading Challenge:

As always, try to read daily for a minimum of ten minutes.

See the reading comprehension: ‘The Park’ which is

attached in this document below. Practise your retrieval, inference,

word meaning and summarising skills and self-mark against the mark

scheme provided.

TTRS:

Keep regularly practising your times table facts up to 12x12 and corresponding

division facts. It’s great to see more children logging in!

Activity: Fizz Buzz – With your family, count using ‘fizz’ for a given multiple, for example 6, and

‘buzz’ for a different multiple, for example 8. Use ‘fizz buzz’ for multiples of both 6 and 8.

For example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, fizz, 7, buzz, 9, 10, 11, fizz, 13, 14, 15, buzz, 17, fizz, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

fizz buzz, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, fizz, 31, buzz, 33, 34, 35, fizz, etc.

Repeat with different given multiples.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS CHALLENGE:

On TTRS, a Battle of the Bands has been set up between 6R and 6H – who will be the

champions? Let the battle commence!

Spelling Shed:

Spelling focus: Homophones and near homophones Homophones are words that sound the same but have different

meanings and spellings.

Spelling Shed Update: 6H have remained in 1st place with 93,303,661 points. Amazing effort!

6R are still some way behind but moved up from 10th to 7th place this week with 21,495,999 points!

Our top 5 spellers this week! 1st: Jacob 6H - 25,954,924

2nd: Sienna 6H - 24,287,076

3rd: George 6H - 17,083,592

4th: Isabel 6H - 16,793,928

5th: Krishe 6R - 6,573,008

Well done to all who

have logged in this

week!

Weekly Spellings:

past / passed

steal/steel

him / hymn

right / write

accept /except

guessed / guest

aisle / isle

cereal / serial

desert / dessert

through / threw

Practise your spellings using the ‘fancy font’ strategy we use in class as shown above.

If you’d like to, practise using each homophone in a sentence.

Challenge: Can you include a subordinate clause in each? Remember to use commas to mark

clauses.

Examples:

As he had finished his dinner, he was allowed to choose a scrumptious, mouth-watering

dessert.

Even though there were many dangerous animals, she wanted to camp out in the wilderness

of the desert.

Diary Entry Focus:

How are your family marking the 75th anniversary of VE day?

Write a recount of your bank holiday weekend.

Try to include why the 8th May 2020 is significant and why is it important that we mark

this occasion.

Additional Year Group Information:

Keep sending in your photographs to Mrs Butcher on:

d.butcher@st-johns.bournemouth.sch.uk. It would be great to see what

you’ve been up to at home - they may get posted on our website/in the

next newsletter.

Class Message:

Hello everyone.

This week, we have planned four days of activities as Friday is the VE Day Bank Holiday.

For Friday 8th, we have set an optional challenge themed around this.

As the newsletter explained, at some point, we will be phoning home to have a chat to your

parents about how you are all doing and how you have been getting on with the home

learning. We will hopefully get a chance to have a quick catch up with you too.

Missing you!

Miss Roberts and Mr Hawley

P.S: Don’t forget to keep an eye out for our weekly videos on the school website.

Ajay has just arrived at Joe’s house before school.

Joe’s mother is the warden who looks after the local park.

The Park

Ajay was just about to tuck into his tea and

toast dripping in sour rhubarb jam when there

was a loud clatter from the letterbox as an

important-looking brown envelope landed on

the mat. ‘Bit early for the post isn’t it?’ Mum

said. ‘Ooh, it says Special Delivery.’ Mum

opened it, and unfolded the letter.

Joe knew instantly that something was wrong.

He could see it on Mum’s face. ‘What is it,

Mum?’ Joe asked.

‘Yeah, Mrs P, what’s happened?’ Ajay asked

too.

‘It’s the park… they’ve shut it down.’

For a second no one said a word. Joe and Ajay

looked at each other, then back at Joe’s mum.

Her face was pale, her jaw dropped open. She

stared at the letter, her eyes watery and

ready to spill over with tears.

‘Shut the park!’ Joe said furiously. ‘They can’t

do that, it’s… it’s the park!!’

‘Yeah, everyone loves that place!’ Ajay joined

in.

‘You boys best get to school, or you’ll be late,’

said Mum, her voice all shaky.

‘But what about…?’ Joe started to say.

‘You leave that to me, I don’t want you

worrying.’ Mum tried to smile, but it didn’t

reach her eyes. If she was trying to reassure

Joe, it wasn’t working. He knew his mum

needed that job – how else was she supposed

to put sweet-and-sour spaghetti on the table?

‘Don’t worry, Mum, I’ll… I’ll think of

something.’

Joe’s mum just nodded, turning away to wipe

her eyes.

Joe and Ajay grabbed their bags and reluctantly headed out of the door. Neither of them said

anything for what seemed like ages.

‘You all right, man?’ Ajay asked, breaking the silence.

‘I don’t know… I can’t believe they’ve closed the park. I mean, why?!’ Joe said in disbelief.

‘Dunno,’ Ajay shrugged. ‘But I know a man who might,’ he said, pointing down the road.

As they turned the corner at the top of Joe’s street they saw a man in the distance. He had a

ladder and toolbox and was busy hammering a sign into the park gates. This made Joe’s blood

boil. If Mum had been there she would have given him what for – no one hammers anything into

anything without her say-so first.

‘Oi!’ Ajay yelled, ‘what are you doing?’

Joe read the sign: ‘Under development.’

‘What’s going on?’ Joe asked. ‘Why have you closed the park?’

The man stopped what he was doing and shrugged. ‘They don’t tell me anything, I’m just the

bloke who hammers things.’

Joe read the rest of the sign:

Underneath the notice was a drawing of a posh building, tall and made of glass. It had pictures

of smiling people chatting and drinking coffee outside. Joe and Ajay looked through the park

gates and could already see diggers moving in, ready to tear the playground apart.

‘This can’t be happening,’ Joe muttered, blinking back the tears. This was the place where he

and Ajay hung out. Where they used to plot how they were going to become mega rich, and plan

what to do if the world got taken over by zombies. This was the place where Joe and Ajay used

to play football – or rather where Ajay would kick the ball and Joe would try to get out of the

way of it before it hit him in the face. And now it was going to be turned into flats! Why wasn’t

anyone stopping this?

Please note: You do not need to print this booklet. You can view

on-screen and write your answers on paper/in a notebook.

Question

Booklet

1. What is Ajay doing when the post arrives?

______________________________________________________

1 mark

2. How does Joe know that the letter contains bad news before his mum tells him

what it says?

______________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

1 mark

3. What does the letter in the brown envelope tell Joe’s mother?

______________________________________________________

1 mark

4. Look at page 1.

Find and copy one word which shows that Joe is angry.

____________________________________

1 mark

5. Look at page 1.

In Ajay’s opinion, how do people feel about the park?

______________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

1 mark

6. Look at the paragraph beginning: ‘You boys best get to school...’ to the end of

page 1.

‘But what about...?’ Joe started to say.

Which words would best complete Joe’s question?

Tick one.

your breakfast

our games

your job

our homework

1 mark

7. What is Joe’s mother thinking after she reads the letter?

Tick one thought.

1 mark

8. If she was trying to reassure Joe, it wasn’t working.

What does reassure mean in this sentence?

______________________________________________________

1 mark

9. Look at the paragraph at the top of page 2.

Find and copy one word that shows the boys do not want to leave the house.

____________________________________

1 mark

10. Oi!’ Ajay yelled, ‘what are you doing?’

Joe read the sign: ‘Under development.’

‘What’s going on?’ Joe asked. ‘Why have you closed the park?’

Joe and Ajay react differently to seeing the man hammering in the sign.

How does Joe react?

Tick one.

He is calmer.

He is ruder.

He is less

interested.

He is less worried.

1 mark

11. Look at the sign from the story.

Who has produced the sign?

______________________________________________________

1 mark

12. Look at the paragraph beginning: Underneath the notice was a… to the end of

page 2.

What is happening inside the park straight after Joe and Ajay have read the

sign?

______________________________________________________

1 mark

13. Using information from the text, tick one box in each row to show whether

each statement is true or false.

True False

The park has been looked after by a park

warden.

The park is going to be replaced with a

shopping centre.

Building work in the park will start at the end

of July.

The warden had two weeks’ notice of the

park’s closure.

2 marks

Answers

Mark scheme:

1. Award 1 mark for reference to him eating (his breakfast), e.g.

• just about to tuck into his tea and toast

• having his breakfast

• drinking tea.

1 mark

2. Award 1 mark reference to Joe seeing it on her face, e.g.

• he could tell because of his mum’s expression

• he could tell from her face

• by her face.

Do not accept answers which refer to her facial expression after she tells him the park is closing, e.g.

• mum’s face went pale

• her jaw dropped

• her eyes were watery

• she started crying.

1 mark

3. Award 1 mark for reference to the closing of the park, e.g.

• it tells her the park is shut

• the park is closing

• that they’ve shut the park down.

Also accept answers which refer to Joe’s mother losing her job, e.g.

• that she’s losing her job.

1 mark

4. Award 1 mark for:

• furiously.

1 mark

5. Award 1 mark for reference to everyone loving the park, e.g.

• Ajay feels that everyone loves the park

• they love it

• people think it’s great.

Do not answers which only refer to sadness / anger about the park being closed, e.g.

• angry and upset

• sad it’s closing.

1 mark

6. Award 1 mark for:

your breakfast our games your job our homework

1 mark

7. Award 1 mark for:

1 mark

8. Award 1 mark for reference to making Joe feel better / less anxious, e.g.

• make him feel like everything is going to be alright

• tell him it would be ok

• trying to comfort him

• make him not so worried about the park.

1 mark

9. Award 1 mark for:

• reluctantly.

1 mark

10. Award 1 mark for:

He is calmer. He is ruder. He is less interested.

He is less worried.

1 mark

11. Award 1 mark for reference to The Department of Progress.

Also accept answers which refer to the government / the council.

1 mark

12. Award 1 mark for reference to either of the following:

1. the diggers / builders moving in, e.g.

• some diggers are going into the park

• the diggers are already making their way in

• diggers were coming to knock it down.

2. the playground / park being destroyed, e.g.

• the park is being knocked down.

Do not accept general responses about the new development that do not refer to the destruction of the playground / park, e.g.

• they were building luxury flats.

1 mark

13.

Award 1 mark for three correct or 2 marks for all four correct:

True False

The park has been looked after by a park warden.

✓

The park is going to be replaced with a shopping centre.

✓

Building work in the park will start at the end of July.

✓

The warden had two weeks’ notice of the park’s closure.

✓

Up to 2 marks