Year 4 Homework
Date set: 22.4.16
Date Due in: 29.4.16
- Reading every day. Please write in your reading diary when you have read.
- Maths (20mins):
Our topic this week is Co-ordinates.
Maths work will be posted on mathletics, if you have any problems accessing
this work please speak to the teacher for a paper copy. Please also practise
your times tables up to 12 x 12.
- Literacy (20mins): The Tudors
For your homework this week
we would like you to find out about different types of Tudor transport but
particularly about Tudor boats. One of the most famous was the ‘Mary Rose’.
Use the KidRex search
engine to help you find safe sites. Please ask your teacher if you cannot
access this and need any books from the library.
 Try to find out what it would be like on a Tudor ship. How
many people would there be? What were their jobs? How long did ships travel
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- Spellings (20mins) should be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences.
You need to:
• look at each word
• say the word
• copy the word in first space
• cover the words and try to write it
from memory
• check to see if they are right
This week your spellings are the
days of the week and the months of the year. These are words we use every day,
so practise spelling them from memory. They should also all have a capital
letter at the start as they are proper nouns.
Group 1
Copy and cover
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Write and check
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Write again
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday
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year
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month
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date
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Group 2
Copy and cover
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Write and check
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Write again
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January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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Today we have cars, planes, trains and more. But in Tudor times, it wasn't as easy as that!
ReplyDeleteOn land, rich people can take coaches to places. The first horse-drawn coach belonged to Mary Tudor. Queen Elizabeth I ordered a stagecoach to be built in 1564. It might look grand, but dint let the looks fool you! Inside the coach it would have been very uncomfortable to travel in. The poor couldn't afford coaches, so they would travel by foot.
One of the most famous Tudor ships is called the Mary Rose. Tudor ships could travel across oceans to fight and trade. They have three or four masts, with square ad triangular sails. So even in strong winds, they would sail well!
Life was hard for sailors on a ship. They slept in hammocks which side to side, while captains and officers had cabins.
The food they had maggots in them and drinking water went stale. On long journeys sailors of ten died
as they because they didn't have enough vitamin c.
Life was very cramped living on Tudor ships and the sailors lived in these conditions for months.In the boat there would be loads of people on there. They had tough duties. Tudor sailors spent many days out of sight of land and so had to take food with them that would last. There were no fresh food. They preserved food by drying and salting and they took food which kept naturally, like nuts. Meat were rotten. Food was often infested with worms and other creatures.
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ReplyDeleteTudor ships were able to travel across oceans and seas, and they were used for trading, fighting and exploration. Most ships had 3 or 4 masts with triangular or square sails and they were quite easy to steer. The ships were constructed from timber.
King Henry VII started to develop England’s navy by building ships and King Henry VIII was responsible for increasing the size of the English fleet. In addition to being used for defence, the huge ships were used for exploration, with voyages of discovery often lasting years.
Tudor ships were powered by the wind, and were extremely slow moving. When cannons were added, the ships became even slower because of the extra weight of the guns.
There was not much room for sailors to sleep in the ships, and most of the time they were cramped or slept on the deck. Most sailors also wore the same clothes every day.
The food on most ships was not very good and consisted of bread, fish, biscuits, cheese and salted beef. The water was usually stale and the food often full of maggots.
Despite the dangerous and uncomfortable conditions, sea voyages were popular with many people. They were attracted by the sense of adventure and the prospect of finding great wealth.
The Mary Rose was one of the most famous Tudor ships. She sank in 1545, while attacking the French fleet and today, the remains of the ship, along with many artifacts (such as cooking utensils, games and clothing) can be seen in Portsmouth, England.
About 500 men died when the Mary Rose sank. The ages of the sailors ranged from as young as 12 to about 40, and most of them could not read or write. One of the greatest Tudor ships was called Henry Grace a Dieu. It weighed almost 1,000 tons and could carry almost 1,000 men.
In one of the great sea battles, the small English Navy defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. The Spanish invading force was much larger than the English fleet. Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh were both involved in conflict.
Tudor Transport
ReplyDeleteThe Tudor period started from 1485 and ended at 1603.
The Tudors had two ways of transportation i.e. Boats and Coaches.
Coaches began to be developed in late Tudor times as a new approach was taken to road maintenance. The parish was made responsible for the roads through Acts of Parliament passed between 1555 and157.
The Mary Rose
The Mary Rose is a warship
Henry VIII is keen to build up his fledgling navy from the 15 ships he inherits. By 1540 the navy has 45.
He also builds the first naval dock at Portsmouth and establishes the Navy Board to run the service. Many of the ships, like Henry's flagship the Mary Rose, are fitted with the latest guns. Henry's ships can now stand up against those of the French and Spanish navies. In 1545, the Mary Rose sinks while leading an attack against a French invasion fleet. The ship contained 400 men and 91 heavy guns i.e. 15 large bronze guns, 24 wrought-iron carriage guns and 52 smaller anti-personnel guns.
This is the Mary Rose!
The Mary Rose was King Henry VIII's favourite warship and he named the ship after his sister. The ship was built in 1509, the year Henry VIII came to the throne.
On 19 July 1545, disaster struck the Mary Rose. The French had landed on the Isle of Wight. Henry came to Southsea Castle to watch his fleet leave Portsmouth and engage with the French force in the Solent.
At the head of the English fleet was his pride and joy the Mary Rose.
From his advantage point on top of Southsea castle, Henry had a commanding view of the impending battle. Unfortunately, right before his eyes he watched one of the greatest naval tragedies, the sinking of his flagship, the Mary Rose.
It is not known exactly what happened to cause the sinking of the ship, but one theory suggests that the crew fired the guns on one side of the ship and were turning the ship to fire the guns on the other side. Unfortunately, they failed to close the gun ports and a combination of this and the wind caused the ship to tilt, fill with water and sink.
The Mary Rose sank within a matter of minutes with seven hundred sailors lost.
The discovery and submerging of the Mary Rose in 1982 has provided us with a unique glimpse of maritime life in Portsmouth during the reign of Henry VIII. The remains of the Mary Rose are now on display at Portsmouth Dockyard Naval Museum.
Below you can see some of the bronze guns recovered from the Mary Rose. Each one of them is uniquely decorated with royal devices, coats of arms and even Henry VIII's name.
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This is the Mary Rose SINKING!!!
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