Monday 6th July 2026

Monday 5th July 2026

Retrieve information and make inferences based on details stated and implied.

Retrieval

What skills do we need?

1. Who takes Lou hunting?

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Your turn

2. What does Barney see, which makes him think that he could go hunting too.

3. What does Stig kill with his bow and arrow, ‘before it knew what was happening’?

4. Why doesn’t Stig kill the fox?

5. Where does Stig bite the hound?

 

Inference

What skills do we need?

How can the reader tell that Stig is growing frustrated with Barney at the beginning of the hunt?

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 Your turn

How can the reader tell that Barney was wasn’t happy about Stig’s actions as they go to join the hunt?

LC: To read and respond to a text. 

 

We will read the story of Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer The Cat Burglars.

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
We're a notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats

We have an extensive reputation
We make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our center of operation
For we are incurably given to rove

If the area window is found ajar
And the basement looks like a field of war
If a tile or two comes loose on the roof
Which presently fails to be waterproof
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest
And you can't find one of your winter vests
Or after supper one of the girls
Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they leave it at that

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a very unusual gift of the gab
We are highly efficient cat burglars as well
And remarkably smart at a smash and grab
We make our home in Victoria Grove
We have no regular occupation
We are plausible fellows who like to engage
A friendly policeman in conversation

When the family assembles for Sunday dinner
Their minds made up that they won't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens
Then the cook will appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow,
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they leave it at that

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer have a wonderful way of working together
And some of the time you would say it was luck
And some of the time you would say it was weather
We go through the house like a hurricane
And no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

And when you hear a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming
Then family will say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!

Let's discuss and answer in our writing books. 

Who is the poem about?

What is it about? 

What are their crimes?

Who might be the victims of their crimes? 

 

Challenge Questions

• Why do you think the cats enjoy causing trouble?
• What words or phrases tell us they are clever criminals?
• How do the families feel when things go missing? Find evidence from the poem.
• Why do you think the poem is funny even though the cats are committing crimes?
• Do you think Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer are good characters or bad characters? Explain your opinion using evidence from the poem.

Vocabulary to Discuss

• Notorious – famous for doing bad things.
• Reputation – what people know you for.
• Burglars – people who steal from buildings.
• Plausible – believable or convincing.
• Occupation – a job.
• Acrobats – people who perform tricks by balancing and moving skilfully.
• Gift of the gab – someone who is very good at talking.