Monday 15th September 2025
RIC
R: What is the girl's name?
I: Do her parents like her? Why do you think this?
C: What does the word nuisance mean?
Monday 15th September 2025
LC: To identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise these.
Teacher model: Read the text and summarise the paragraphs to support the statement:
Mr Wormwood and Mrs Wormwood are bad parents because...
Your turn:
Read the text and summarise the paragraphs to support the statement:
Matilda is clever because...
Monday 15th September 2025
LC: Be able to plan a magazine article using information collected
Grammar Warmup
Can you remember what a complex sentence is?
What is a main clause?
What is a subordinate clause?
In a sentence, how can you tell which is which?
if because while whenChoose one of these conjunctions.
1 Think of a complex sentence about your school day.
2 Write one sentence in which the main clause is first.
3 Now join the same two clauses to make another sentence in which the subordinate clause comes first.
Here is my example:
We can talk quietly to our friends when we have eaten our lunch.
When we have eaten our lunch, we can talk to out friends.
We will use this planning grid each day to plan each section of our article. Today we will focus of the first paragraph - the introduction
In order to prepare to write an introduction for the magazine article, we will look at the readings below to gather words, phrases, rhetorical questions.
Your task: Select your favourite sentences for your planning grid.
Monday 15th September 2025
LC: To name components in a circuit.
Click on the image and read about electrical components.
Task: explain the purpose of each components in your own words.
Monday 15th September 2025
LC: To understand our feelings change over time.
Have you ever experienced strong emotions and ‘flipped your lid’?
What helps you to calm down and get your thinking brain working again?
Emotion regulation is about managing how we respond to our feelings so they don't control us. It doesn't mean making the feelings go away; it means learning how to be with them without being taken over by them. It's like managing a storm inside without letting it flood you.
Theme: Every day is a Fresh Start.
Think about what this means to you?
Have you ever had a day where you needed a fresh start?
