Moorlands Primary School

English

We have included a Reading Comprehension below. Just choose 1 version

Click on the link to go to the picture inspiration for this week’s English work.

https://www.pobble365.com/the-lighthouse/

Activity ideas about the picture

Please pick and choose which activities you would like to complete. You can present these in any way you would like.

  • Describe what it feels like to be caught in a storm, think about a time you have experienced bad weather.
  • Use the story starter and continue the story, think about developing characters, dilemmas and resolutions:

The storm had been raging for hours. Like a besieging army tormenting an enemy’s ramparts, the waves battered on the lighthouse walls.

A group of men huddled in one of the cylindrical shaped rooms, flinching every time a wave rocked the lighthouse. Their hearts were in their mouths with every devastating blow: they half expected the walls to come tumbling down at any moment.

They turned their heads and listened to the sound of the storm. What they heard was truly terrifying…

  • Non-fiction - Report

Research and present about extreme weather types pick one or two from these examples:

|Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tsunamis, Blizzards, Floods.

Where in the world do they happen? Why / how do they start? What damage have they/can they cause? What is being done to protect us?