Thursday 12th March
LC: To write the last two paragraphs for an independent write
Let's take a quick look at what you should have already written. Take your green pen and get ready to edit!
Paragraph 1
Your main character is doing their chosen activity, they feel like they are being watched. How is your character feeling? What are they thinking? The Iron Man is seen by your main character.
Have you added the following? If not, can you edit and check where you could add any of the below in to your work.
Combine characters and setting.
Contains adverbs.
Complex sentences with commas to separate clauses.
Conjunctions.
Paragraph 2:
In this section, your character will run home frightened, to go and tell a family member about the Iron Man. Your character and their family member will go to tell the people in the neighbourhood.
Contains adverbs.
Complex sentences with commas to separate clauses.
Inverted commas for speech.
Today, you will be writing paragraph 3 and 4.
Paragraph 3:
In the third section, you need to include how the people of the neighbourhood come up with a plan to dig a hole and wait for the Iron man to arrive.
Includes the conjunction ‘because’.
Adverbs.
Complex sentences with commas to separate clauses.
Paragraph 4
In the last paragraph, your main character creates a trap for the Iron man and he falls in to the trap. Your main character feels guilty.
Include powerful verbs.
12.03.26
L.C: To be able to tell time to the minute using vocabulary, such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight.
RIC
R - Where did the brother and sister go?
I - How do you think the sister is feeling?
C - Why is the sister feeling scared?
LC: To read books that are structured in different ways.
Have you read any books that don't quite look like a story book?
For example, I've read books that give me information about a topic that I am interested in.
Over the next two days, we will look at books that have been written in different ways. Here is the first one:
Let's answer some of these questions together:
Who has this book been written for?
What genre would this book come under? Is it humorous? Fantasy? Instructional? Adventure?
What are the key features of this type of a book?
Independent
Can you find the key features that we have listed above in another book?
1. In your Reading Journals take a highlighter and highlight the features like we did above. Don't forget to label them!
2. Who has this book been written for? This book has been written for...
3. List 3 key features:
Thursday 12th March 2026
LC: To identify the main achievements during the Iron Age.
Talk Partners
What are the four main achievements in the Bronze Age?
Did the Iron Age happen before or after the Bronze Age?
Today we are going to learn about the main achievements in the Iron Age.
Key Vocabulary
tribe - a social group made up of many families, clans, or generations that share the same language, customs, and beliefs.
settlement - a place where people live and sometimes work.
Watch the below video carefully.
What happened with the tribes?
What did they discover?
Where did they find iron?
What do you have to do to change the shape of iron?
Around 800 BC people in Britain learned how to use iron. This discovery had a dramatic impact on everyday life. Iron tools made farming much easier than before and settlements grew in size.
People in Iron Age Britain lived in clans that belonged to tribes led by warrior kings. Rival tribes fought with deadly iron weapons.
Activity 1
Read the definitions and match them to the tools on SEESAW.
Activity 2
What started to happen in the Iron Age? (think about the beginning of the video clip)
In the Iron Age tribes started to...
What did they use to make tools and weapons?
Why did they use it?
Where did they find it?
Could they change the shape of it? How?
What weapons did they make?
People in the Iron Age used...