Our fun English outreach event, designed to exercise your Year 5 pupil’s creative and visual skills, is back for another year - and your school’s invited!
As part of ‘We’ve Got Issues!’, we are inviting teams of four Year 5 pupils to take on our monster-themed project, exploring new plots, complex vocabulary and the sonnet form.
The teams will need to be accompanied by a staff member from your school, please note this doesn't need to be a teacher and the staff member will not be supervising the pupils during the day. They will only be in attendance for safeguarding reasons. Hymers College staff will lead all activities and so your staff member will be free to bring their own work with them if they so wish (wifi connection will be available).
Running alongside this event is our Year 5 Maths outreach event - ‘We’ve Got Problems!’. You are welcome to bring a team to both events if you wish.
The outreach events are running on the following dates, between 9.40am and 2.40pm.
Wednesday 18 June
Thursday 19 June
Friday 20 June
Both events are completely FREE and lunch is included, so what are you waiting for?
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9:40am: Arrival
9:50am: Introduction to the day
10am: Activity 1 – Rogue Plots
11am: Activity 2 – Monster Maps
12pm: Buffet lunch (provided)
12:30pm: Activity 3 – Scheming Sonnets
1:30pm: Activity 4 – We’ll Have Issues
2:30pm: Summary and presentation
2:40pm: Depart
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Pupils will be presented with a series of jumbled events from a classic monster novel, including Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and The Day of the Triffids. They will have to put these in order to discover the plot of the novel.
Once finished, pupils will be presented with a crossword that contains definitions of some of the complex vocabulary in their novel. They race against members of their team to use dictionaries to find the correct words.
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Pupils will read an extract from the famous novel they've been given. They need to use the vocabulary from their crossword to help with understanding. They then fill an outline of their monster's head with vocabulary, imagery and descriptions as they understand that character and how the reader feels about them.
Additional challenge - pupils may create their own monster using their best descriptions and ideas.
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Pupils will be given a sonnet and asked to use it to decipher the rules of Shakespearean sonnets including meter, rhyme and stanza length. They then use their monster maps to plan their own sonnets following these rules.
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Pupils create neat, decorated versions of their sonnets to go into their 'issue', which will be sent to their school after the event.
