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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Week 1
What’s on
the
beach?
8th June
Coastal town
project
9th June
Beach combing
10th June
Litter
11thJune
Shells
12th June
Life in a rock
pool
Week 2
wildlife
15th June
Coastal town
project
16th June
Coastal birds
17th June
Fish
18th June
Mammals
19th June
Seaweeds and
coral
Week 3
Erosion
and
Physical
geography
22nd June
Coastal town
project
23rd June
Sea Defences
24th June
Dredging
25th June
Estuaries
26th June
Walton-on-the-
Naze case study
Week 4
Tourism
and Travel
29th June
Coastal town
project
30th June
Cargo ships
1st July
Passenger
ferries
2nd July
Pollution
3rd July
Food, drink and
leisure.
Week 5
History
6th July
Coastal town
project
7th July
Dunwich case
study
8th July
Great Yarmouth
case study
9th July
Clacton-on-Sea
case study
10th July
Harwich case
study
Week 6 13th July
Coastal town
project:
Redemption
14th July
Coastal town
project:
Redemption
15th July
Coastal town
project:
Redemption
16th July
Coastal town
project:
Redemption
17th July
Front cover and
contents page
Before break
1) Arithmetic questions (Tuesdays-Fridays)
2) Times Table Rock Stars
3) Reading – spend 30 minutes reading a book or text of your choice.
After break
4) Choose a sentence from your reading book/text and annotate it with everything you can tell me about its grammatical content:
➢ Nouns – naming words. These could be single words (e.g. book, table) or a phrase (e.g. the woman with a green dress)
➢ Adverbs (describes how, when, why or where a verb is done. They can also moderate adjectives e.g. too, extremely, very, quite)
➢ Verbs (doing or state of being words e.g. have, run, take)
➢ Adjectives - describe nouns. They could be a single word (e.g. blue, happy) or a phrase (e.g. the man with red hair)
➢ Determiners (tell us which noun we are talking about e.g. a, an, the, some, every)
➢ Prepositions (describe relationships between nouns e.g. in, beside, of, with)
➢ Pronouns – (replace a noun e.g. he, it, them).
➢ Punctuation (including full stops, commas, dashes, semi-colons, colons, speech marks, ellipses and exclamation marks)
➢ Synonyms/antonyms (words which mean the same/words which mean the opposite)
➢ Conjunction types (coordinating or subordinating)
➢ Modal verbs (suggest probability e.g. can, will, could, might)
➢ Subordinated clauses (look for subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns such as who, which, that)
5) Revise the spellings from the three word lists below. Each day, highlight five new spellings from each list and use a variety of strategies to practise them (ideas are attached at the end of this document). Then ask someone to test you.
6) Read the topic task for the afternoon and begin planning.
After lunch
7) Complete the topic task given to you.
List 1
List 2
List 3
Monday
Coastal Town Project
Twenty years have passed since you left your coastal town. You have travelled
the world in style with your accrued fortune: you have seen all Seven Wonders
of the World, you entered Tutankhamun’s tomb by candlelight, journeyed along
the Tigris, crossed the windswept wastes of the arctic tundra and even paid
Richard Branson a quarter of a million pounds to travel with Virgin Galactic into
space.
When your private yacht founders off the English coast, you make for the
nearest town with a pier (suitably dredged, of course, to accommodate your
excessive tonnage): the town of [insert name of town here].
However, as you walk through the town, you realise that all is not well. Your
sharply tailored suit cuts a strong contrast with the squalor you see around you,
with the crumbling buildings, unmown airstrips and boarded-up shop fronts.
You decide you can’t leave now. [name of town here] needs you! And this time,
what is required isn’t haphazard construction, as was the case so many years
ago! What is required is an aesthetic revolution! What is required is a
renaissance of art, design and architecture!
Drawing upon your personal encounters with the World’s greatest and most
important artistic and architectural achievements, you decide that you will
guide the town and its waning industries through this challenging period.
Ducking the divebombing herring gulls, your step hurries to a jog, then a run,
then a sprint as you hurry up the hill towards your old house. A song fills the air
as you zoom past bemused locals and start construction on your workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGnNQ6PX-Mg
(If you like you can create a workshop by cutting out the various workshop elements and gluing them on
the shed space)
workbench
Tool cabinet
Hammers, spanners,
chisels and files
vice
Circular saw Band Saw
Lathe
You hear a knock on your door. Putting down your hacksaw, you open it to see a
local who has heard about your initiative to revive the town.
SPaG
Later that evening you recall the conversation in your diary, writing what was
said using reported speech. Can you complete the extract? Try to include some
thoughts/feelings you can imply.
A most curious exchange occurred today. A local, having
knocked on the door of my new workshop, let out a pitiful
exclamation. Eager to help, I asked whether…
Oh ma’am/sir! It’s terrible!
What’s terrible? Speak quickly, my friend.
It’s the flooding! The terrible flooding! No matter how high we build our
flood defences, the sea inundates the houses at least annually.
Thank you, my friend. Rest assured; I will not tire until this issue
has been resolved.
You sleep fitfully, tossing and turning as you try and find some solution to the
flooding problem.
You suddenly remember your journeys in Bangladesh! There, you saw first-hand
the work of scientists and engineers as they helped locals tackle their problems
with seasonal flooding during the monsoon. Watch a video about their work by
clicking the link below.
This is how you will help the locals of [insert town name here] with their
flooding problems! You will design a new flood-proof yet stylish house!
With little experience in the field of cutting-edge house design, you make a
phone call to Kevin McCloud (of Grand Designs fame) who comes around for a
cup of tea to discuss the technical challenges you are facing.
“Your house,” Kevin remarks, “reminds me of one I visited not far from here –
near Colchester in fact. It was built overlooking the Colne estuary at a place
called Lee-over-Sands.” He leans over and points to a location on the map
below. “The whole place flooded at high tide, as I recall…”
He passes you a copy of de zeen – a hip magazine for architects – which has a
feature about the “Redshank House” as it has come to be known.
Oil rigs, Maunsell forts and a wading bird
provided the inspiration for this artist's retreat in a
salt marsh on England's east coast, which becomes
inaccessible when the tide comes in.
The seaside studio space was developed by British
architect Lisa Shell for artist Marcus Taylor, who
wanted a peaceful place that he could retreat to and
concentrate on his work.
Taylor had purchased a dilapidated timber-framed
house from the 1920s in the hamlet of Lee over
Sands, which is situated within Essex Wildlife
Trust's Colne Point Nature Reserve.
The site's location on the exposed side of the sea
wall means it is regularly inundated, so the old
house had to be removed and replaced with an
alternative that is suited to this unique location.
"The coastal site is an extreme environment in
which to build," said Shell, "but also one that is
delicate and sensitive: these constraints demanded
innovation and experimentation."
"The changing climate – annual, seasonal, monthly
and daily cycles, alongside long-term climate
predictions – had a crucial influence on the
design."
Rather than proposing a robust, flood-proof
structure, the architect developed a design that
raises the building out of reach of the rising tide.
Three galvanised-steel legs finished in a resinous
paint that will withstand the salty air elevate the
structure and allow the sea to wash underneath. A
staircase with symmetrical flights docks to the side
of the cabin.
The elevations are clad in untreated oak boards and
cork panels that form a skin around the cross-
laminated timber frame and offer protection from
the salty winds.
The stairs ascend to a decked terrace from
which the entrance leads into a small hall
providing access to a bedroom and wet room.
Significant features that can be seen from the
studio provided key sources of inspiration.
These include wind turbines and one of the
armed towers built in the Thames during the
second world war.
The colour of the building's painted pillars also
reference the red legs of the redshank – a
wading bird that can be found in the salt marsh
and from which the project takes its name.
The delicate seaside ecosystem necessitated a design and construction method that minimises the house's
impact on the environment.
"The construction period was limited to summer months to avoid impact on the environment whose
qualities are relied upon by overwintering birds," Shell added. “Raising the building on tall legs enabled
us to remove the old rubble foundations and for the area beneath the building to return to natural
marshland.
"Redshank demonstrates how to survive flood risk in an era of storms and tidal surges, whilst giving
proper consideration to the natural environment in which it sits," the architect concluded.
"Its idiosyncratic design has also generated an extraordinary, comfortable retreat without offending the
locals."
Before you can start designing, gather any construction materials (e.g. tin foil,
bubble wrap, card, straw/grass, clay, paper, straws, string, lolly sticks, twigs,
leaves, bamboo pieces, plastic bags, stones) you might require. Think about how
waterproof each material is as you find them, sorting them into the different
groups below:
If you aren’t sure how your material behaves when wet, you could always
conduct an absorbency test:
You also need to test the strength of your different materials!
Waterproof (doesn’t
absorb water)
Water resistant (gets
damp after a while)
Absorbent (absorbs
water readily)
1. Measure and cut a standard sample of 15 cm x 2
cm for each material available to ensure a fair test.
2. Hold the material sample in a vertical position
over a beaker containing 1cm depth of coloured
water.
3. Start the timer once the material is lowered into
the water.
4. Leave it in for 3 minutes then remove from the
water.
5. Record how high up the material the water was
absorbed, using a table to record the results.
Sketch a plan for your house in the box below. Label all the different materials
you have used and the features that make it suitable for a flood-prone area.
1. Set up some clamps on stands about 15 cm apart.
Alternatively, ask a friend to hold your samples.
2. Measure and cut a standard sample of 15 cm x 2
cm for each material available to ensure a fair test.
3. Clamp (or ask a friend to hold) the sample and
slowly add weights to the midpoint of the material
until the material bends or breaks.
4. Record the weight necessary to break or bend the
material in a table.
5. Repeat the test two more times with fresh pieces
of the same material and take an average result.
Finally, construct a model of your flood-resistant house. Once built, test it by
pouring over a whole watering can of water – if your house remains standing by
the time the last drop has fallen, you have been successful in your mission!
Tuesday
Coastal Town Project
You smile as you pass the construction workers tearing out the gutted insides of
houses along the seafront; soon, these houses will be converted according to
your flood-proof house plans.
Alongside the pier, a fisherman wearily draws lobster pots up from the deck and
deposits them on the walkway.
“Good morning, sir!” you cry.
“Bah! Some good morning!”
“Why, whatever could you mean by that?”
“There’s nowt left, that’s what I mean. My catches have gone down and down.”
He gestures at the empty lobster baskets around him. “It’s hardly worth setting
out for sea anymore.”
Your brow is furrowed for the rest of the morning. What could you possibly do
about the dwindling stocks of shellfish in the town’s waters? Not even the
crossword in the morning’s paper can distract you, although you complete it
nonetheless…
Suddenly you recall the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow (the location of
your second home).
You read the literature on their website to remind yourself of their mission. You
are especially interested in their ‘buy one set one free’ initiative and think about
recommending the scheme to local restaurants:
https://www.nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk/support-us/buyonesetonefree/
You try to anticipate the questions local restauranteurs might have about the
‘buy one set one free’ initiative - answer the following questions using full
sentences:
1) What are the advantages for my business if I sign up for this initiative?
2) How effective has the scheme been so far?
3) What does the National Lobster Hatchery actually do to help protect
lobster numbers?
4) Why is such a scheme needed? Why can’t lobsters just breed in the wild?
You decide to set up a new lobster hatchery in [insert town name here]. In
keeping with your desire to transform the town using the power of art and
design, you take it upon yourself to design a new container to hold the baby
lobsters. Each lobster must be isolate within its individual cell.
Being the cultured, well-travelled woman/man of the World that you are, you
decide to take inspiration from the patterns of Islamic design you observed in
the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Follow the step-by-step instructions for creating an Islamic tile design below.
When you have finished, draw a lobster in each cell.
Step 1 Start with a circle in a square, divided into eight equal sections:
Step 2 Draw four lines that pass through the intersections indicated with red circles. Consider the lines as two opposing V-shapes. The lines do not end in the corners of the square.
Step 3 Draw another two opposing V-shapes, using the same intersections as in the previous step.
Step 4 All the construction lines have now been drawn. Take a different colour pen or pencil and draw the red lines, tracing parts of lines you have drawn in the previous steps.
Step 5 Still using a different colour pen or pencil, draw the four-pointed star, as indicated.
Step 6. All the lines have been drawn; your pattern is complete.
Remember your baby lobsters!
Salvador Dalí, “Lobster Telephone” (1936)
Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist famous for his Surrealist artworks. Surreal art sought to
unlock the potential of the unconscious, exploring the imagery of dreams and combining
objects and ideas in new ways. “Lobster Telephone” is one of his most famous surreal
combinations. Below is a lobster template for you to colour and stick onto the back of your
mobile phone/home phone – what reactions will you get?
Wednesday
Coastal Town Project
Over a cup of tea and some breakfast kippers, you peruse the latest news on
your phone.
Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge: How likely is it to be built?
Reports have resurfaced that a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland is being
considered by the UK government.
The prime minister's official spokesman yesterday said there was a "proper piece of work"
being carried out by a "range of government officials" into the construction of the first ever
bridge between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland. The idea has been floated before with
two potential routes suggested - from Portpatrick to Larne or near Campbeltown to the Antrim
coast. Plans for some kind of link - either a tunnel or a bridge - go back as far as the 1890s but,
despite much consideration, nothing has ever been built.
The price of any construction would, obviously, be dependent on the route chosen. Original
estimated costs of £3.5 billion have already risen considerably, with some experts proposing
that no less than £15 billion would be required to see the project through to the end.
The think tank Centre for Cross Border Studies are supportive. A 21-mile bridge from
Dumfries and Galloway, they say, could provide rail links and road traffic links as well as
reduce demand for air services, a sector often criticised for its high levels of pollution.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge runs for 30 miles over water
In terms of distance - more than 20 miles for the Portpatrick project - it would not be the
longest bridge over water in the world. That honour goes, according to Guinness World
Records, to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge which has 48.3km (about 30 miles) of its
span over water. It credits the 36km (22.4 mile) Hangzhou Bay Bridge as the structure
spanning the greatest expanse of open sea. However, they are all dwarfed by the longest bridge
of all - the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge - at 164 km (102 miles) which stretches the
furthest, although not over open water.
According to a Channel 4 report last year, the government is investigating "the risks around
the project" - including "WW2 munitions in the Irish Sea". This is nothing new: concerns have
long been expressed about the area known as Beaufort's Dyke - a deep submarine trench where
it has been estimated more than one million tonnes of weapons have been jettisoned.
Between logistics and costs, some have dismissed the scheme as unlikely to ever happen. A
senior Scottish government source has described the bridge proposal as "pie in the sky" and
the "usual smokescreen bluster" from Boris Johnson.
However, one of the UK's leading architects Prof Alan Dunlop told Channel 4 News there
would always be "naysayers". “Such a project could be potentially tremendous for the country
and show us as a forward looking and thinking country," he said. He also previously told the
BBC: "We do have incredibly talented architects and engineers in Scotland so I am sure that
as a technical challenge it wouldn't be insurmountable."
The prime minister has made no secret of his support for infrastructure projects that increase
connectivity for people and particularly those that strengthen the Union. Late last year,
Ireland's premier Leo Varadkar said he would not dismiss the idea of building a bridge between
Northern Ireland and Scotland, but insisted the UK must pay for it.
Using two colours of pencil/highlighter, review the article above.
• Underline all the arguments for a bridge being built one colour
• Underline all the arguments against another colour
SPaG
Can you complete the table of synonyms (words that mean the same) and
antonyms (words that mean the opposite) below?
Synonym Antonym
true
secret
unlikely
far
rise
stretch
Sitting back in your chair, you take a deep sigh and consider your new
understanding of the economic and social benefits of building connections
between two communities. Your thoughts linger on how you might apply this to
help [insert name of town here].
Suddenly, you have an idea! Quickly pulling out an Ordnance Survey map of the
area, you navigate to your currently location and, with your finger, trace a
coastal path from your town to the next. It takes in all the vistas that you know
from personal experience are the most breath-taking, and offers access to a
host of remote but beautiful beaches to the public. This will be an effective yet
low-maintenance and ecologically friendly way of attracting more visitors.
However, there is a problem – the
footpath must cross over your railway’s
tracks to enter the town. A bridge is
required.
Your challenge is to build a bridge for foot traffic over the railway line in town. Examine these
examples of footbridges for inspiration:
Suddenly, there is a knock at the door of your
workshop. “Good morning! I’m not disturbing you,
I hope? Do you happen to have any spare milk?”
“No, not at all. I was just eating my kippers... Wait a
minute! You’re Isambard Kingdom Brunel, master
civil engineer!”
He smiles, “Indeed I am.”
“I wonder if you could help me build a new
footbridge over the railway line in town? I would
be awfully grateful if you could.”
“Hmm…” he replies. “Yes, I suppose I could do that.
You will have to do most of the building, of course.
Are you familiar with triangulation?”
“Why, yes! I have built rollercoasters in my time,
applying the concept of triangulation. Triangulation
is…” Can you complete the description?
“Of course, you will have to build it so as to avoid passing trains and the power lines,” explains
Mr Brunel. He hands you the specifications for the bridge below:
“You can use any materials from this list,” he says as he passes you the construction yard
prices list. “Remember: the cheaper you can do it for, the better! Oh, and remember the
steps!” He laughs as he departs, chewing on his cigar.
Material Price per item Number used Cost
Paper (A4 sheet) £5,500
Card (A4 sheet) £7,000
Straw (1 full-length straw) £950
Sticky tape (5cm piece) £60
String (10cm length) £32
Bamboo/wooden stick £4,000 per 20cm length
Blu Tack (1cm ball) £265
Lolly Sticks (10cm long) £2,000 each
Plastic bag piece (10cm square)
£400
Glue Free
Total cost: _________________________________________
Thursday
Coastal Town Project
Early on Thursday morning, you head down into the town centre in search of a
café serving breakfast. The place is perfect in every respect but one: the
crockery on which your food is served and in which your tea is poured is old,
chipped and cracked. Perhaps this is why there are so few other customers?
Your curiosity piqued, you read some reviews of the café on TripAdvisor. Your
suspicions are correct – every review compliments the café in almost every
respect except the old crockery.
Can you complete the reviews below? Match the tone of the review to the
star rating, but remember that each should mention the crockery in a negative
way.
e.g. Disappointing
I remember coming here 20 years ago when it was a great place – good food at
a reasonable price, served with a smile.
How far it has fallen! I ordered a latte and a croissant only to find that the cup
was cracked! It was obviously an old one because the crack was a dark brown
colour but the most upsetting thing was that, when I mentioned it, the server
said they couldn’t do anything about it!
Awful experience all round.
Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!
I visited last Thursday and…
[title of review]
[title of review]
With your typical entrepreneurial zeal, you immediately set to work designing a
new dining set range for cafes in the town. Pushing aside your empty plate, the
last residue of tomato sauce drying to a sticky syrup, you whip out your
notebook and begin sketching preliminary ideas for patterns. It must have a
coastal theme, of course…
Can you finish these patterns?
You conduct some research into other ceramicists working with a coastal
theme and come across the work of Pru Green. She works from her gallery-
home in Wivenhoe, near Colchester.
Pru Green uses sgraffito, the process of scratching into wet paint with a sharp
stick, to create the lines in her designs.
Have a go! Create stamps of the outlines of different animals and plants using
cardboard (or even a potato), apply paint to the surface and stamp the shapes
onto paper before then using a sharp tool to scratch away some of the excess
paint.
A similar effect can also be achieved using stencilling. You can either find some
stencils online (cutting out the black areas) or make your own.
Experiment with these techniques now.
Can you develop some imagery inspired by the coastal lifeforms on the next
page?
The time has come to develop your dining set. The design for the whole set
should be cohesive (i.e. you should know that they all belong to the same set by
the similarity of their patterns). Can you use stencilling and/or sgraffito?
Friday
Coastal Town Project
Today your task is to create the front cover for your topic book. Study your
coastal town map to remind yourself of the buildings you had before cutting out
and sticking the different photographs below onto the coastal landscape (the
one with the sheep) to create a collaged picture of your town. Only use the
elements you have in your town – if you don’t have any airports in your town,
for example, don’t stick any onto the landscape.
e.g.
Using this collaged artwork to inspire you, produce a drawing of your coastal
town to become the front cover of your topic book.
You wil also need to produce a contents page for your topic book.
Finally, have at go at the puffin painting-by-numbers attached as a separate
document (you will have to solve the maths questions to work out which
colours to paint the areas).
I have never seen a puffin before; I hope that this summer I will get to see one!
Whatever plans you have for the summer, have a lovely break and we will see
you back at school in September!