Tuesday 22nd September 2026

Screenshot and complete these spag activities using mark up.

LC: to create an effective character description and to plan a new story with the features of a legend.

Look back at your main character description.

Create a new description of the loyal companion in your story.

You should follow your teacher's model.

Geffin, who was an English sheepdog, lived with his owner Princess Maddox. He was a loyal, brave animal that loved to hunt around the castle grounds. His fur was black and white and his shaggy coat covered his jet black eyes that gleamed like a diamond.

Can you find

- a simile?

- a relative clause with who

- an expanded noun phrase?

Now, using your ideas about

- your main character

- your loyal companion

- the precious object

- the punishment for the loyal companion

- the setting

to complete the final section of the plan with your own ideas.

Adaptive

Use colourful semantics to develop a description of your companion.

22.09.26

LC: To be able to round numbers to the nearest 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000 using number lines.

Adapted:

LC: To deepen the understanding of the place value of each digit in 2-digit numbers using number bonds.

Tuesday 22nd September

LC: To understand how Ancient Greek ideas and inventions have influenced life today?

Look at the four images below. Can you make a connection between them?

What do these four pictures have in common?

Can you relate them back to the same thing?

All four have connections to Ancient Greece. Can you work out how?

Today we are going to investigate how ideas from thousands of years ago have influenced our lives today.

Influence means that something from the past has helped shape or change something that came later.

The Ancient Greeks were the first group to create the voting system. They were the first group to create a democracy. A democracy is citizens taking part in making decisions about their city. However, women were not allowed to vote.

How might this idea have influenced the way some countries make decisions today? Do some countries still use this idea?

The Ancient Greeks held athletic competitions at Olympia. The Olympic Games began in 776 BC and continued for more than 1,000 years.

Can you remember why they used to play the Olympic games? What games did they used to play in the Olympics? What games do we still play in the Olympics today?

Theatre was a huge part of Ancient Greek culture. The Ancient Greeks performed tragedies and comedies in large theatres, often built in a semi-circle. Actors often used to wear masks on their faces to help them get in character.

Watch this video to find out more.

Greek architects developed styles of columns and buildings that have influenced architecture for thousands of years. Buildings with columns are still built around the world today.

By creating pillars and columns into the buildings, what does it make the building look like? What effect does it have?

Task

With your partner, can you identify if these events are from Ancient Greek period, from the world today or from both periods of time (Ancient Greek and the world today).

Task 2

In your History books, write a paragraph explaining the influence of Ancient Greek ideas on the world today? Think about what is similar and what is different.

You might start your paragraph with

Ancient Greek ideas have influenced our world today because in the Ancient Greek period, they invented / they started ................................................. This is similar to what happens in the world today because we also have ....................................

Adapted:

tigers primary picture news resource england 21st september.pdf