Task: Make a poster to celebrate and advertise the newly rebuilt carousel. Ideas to include: • What the carousel looks like • What animals are on the carousel • What makes the carousel so enjoyable (why should people ride it?)

The activities in Investigating Names can be used to meet the NC requirements in KS2 English to develop an understanding and appreciation of literary texts, including modern fiction by significant children’s authors. And in particular it can help children to: * recognise the choice, use and effect of figurative language, vocabulary and the effects of language * identify how character is created, and how plot, narrative structure and themes are developed * evaluate ideas and themes that broaden perspectives and extend thinking * respond imaginatively, drawing on the whole text.

PC Middleton and DCI Bryant have asked you to describe Sam Green to them as part of their missing child investigation. Write two contrasting descriptions: Description 1 – Sam aged 10 years and 11 months Description 2 – Sam aged 11 years and 10 months. Think about which antonyms you could use in your descriptions to highlight the physical and personality changes in Sam’s character. Can you include expanded noun phrases to enhance your descriptions?

The activities in Publishing Skulduggery can be used to meet the NC requirements in KS2 English to develop an understanding and appreciation of literary texts, including modern fiction by significant authors. And in particular to: * evaluate ideas and themes that broaden perspectives and extend thinking * respond imaginatively, drawing on the whole text and other reading. This activity can also be used as for a piece of practical work in KS2 Art and Design. In particular to use a variety of methods and approaches to communicate observations, ideas and feelings to make images and artifacts.

Imagine that Spock can speak English. Write a recount of the evening’s events in the style of a newspaper report, written from Spock’s perspective. Remember to write in the first person.

Write your own story about the next adventures of Spock and the boat-raft full of guinea pigs!

What would you wish for? Write a poem about your own shooting star wish. Aim to include some techniques often used in poetry such as metaphors, similes, imagery, rhyme and alliteration to enhance the style and effect of your poem.

Think about mystery stories and poems that you have already read or listened to and films with elements of mystery that you have watched. What ingredients (features) do you expect to find in the mystery story that you are about to read? Put your ideas in the text boxes below. Add more boxes if you need to. When finished compare your ideas with a partner.

The activities in You, the Reviewer can be used to meet the NC requirements in KS2 English to develop an understanding and appreciation of literary texts, including modern fiction by significant authors. And in particular to: * evaluate ideas and themes that broaden perspectives and extend thinking * respond imaginatively, drawing on the whole text and other reading. It also supports NC requirements in composition by asking children to: * choose form and content to suit a particular purpose - in this case by writing a review * use language and style appropriate to the reader * use and adapt features of a form of writing, drawing on their reading.

Illustrations for colouring.

With a partner work on the graph below: 1. To begin this work you first of all need to discuss how you both feel about Ivy and Scarlet in each of the situations taken from the novel that are presented in the boxes. 2. Looking at your result do you empathise with one of the twins more than the other? Why do you think that is?

These beautifully designed teaching resources are based on Toto, written by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. They provide a great variety of fun, curriculum-based activities for children to enjoy and learn from at the same time!