Tuesday

 To plan and discuss what to write about.

To write and punctuate correctly simple and compound sentences.

We will begin by using our 'maps' and actions to rehearse our invented explanation of a frog life cycle.

 Now we will begin to write the first part of our explanation text. 

Teachers will be looking for:

• capital letters and full stops
• present tense verbs
• coordinating conjunctions

To be able to measure and compare volume in millilitres.

Let's explore.

Let's learn.

Let's try the guided practice on Seesaw.

 Can you explain why Lady Alice Towneley acted as she did? 
 

The Townley family are an English family who lived at Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, from around 1295. It was the family home until its sale, together with the surrounding park, to the corporation of Burnley in 1901.
Towneley Hall was opened to the public in 1902 and is now a large museum and art gallery, housing lots of artefacts from the past.

Can you think of a reason they would sell their family home of over 700 years?

This is Lady Alice O’Hagan who sold Towneley Hall to Burnley council.

Alice Towneley was the third daughter of Charles Towneley (1803-1876). She married Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Lord O'Hagan, in 1871. She was given a part of the Towneley Estate including Towneley Hall in 1885.

As with many old families in England, Alice found her inheritance much too hard to maintain. Old estates paid for themselves because the people working on them paid the estate owners a cut of their money and crops. But changes occurring at the time, and a move towards industry, meant that wealthy land owners had no means to support an income and family homes were sold off.

In 1901, she sold the Hall and 62 acres of park land to the Burnley Corporation.

Lady Alice sold Towneley Hall because …