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English: LO: to create cue cards.

By now, you should have your slides all set up and ready! If not, spend some time today finishing them off. When you have completed them, today’s task is to begin to prepare to present our presentation.

Your slides should only hold key information on them to aid your audience. In a presentation, the bulk of what is being presented is what you actually say, not what is written on the slides. The difficulty arises when remembering exactly what to say to the audience! Today, I would like you consider very carefully what it is you are going to say. Once you know, write down a mini script for yourself on a small piece of paper which you can hold in your hand. You can either write down exactly what you will say and read from the paper, or just make a few bullet points if you are very confident in what you will be talking about!

This way, the audience will see your slide to give them a visual aid, but will spend their time listening to you and not just reading the slide – there is no point in you presenting it otherwise!

Maths: LO: to use references.

One of the things you may have identified when you defined position and direction on Monday could have been the use of maps and grid references. Today I would like you to use grid references when playing a game of battleships, so you will need a partner for this.

If you have the actual game, then you can use that. If not, the below picture can be printed or copied out onto paper and used. Don’t forget, when reading a grid we state the reference on the horizontal axis, and then the reference on the vertical axis (along the corridor and up the stairs).

English: LO: to make slides more interesting!

So far, you should have your slides with titles on as well as the key information you will be presenting to your audience. However, chances are these slides are looking a bit dull at the moment! Today, your task is to add elements to your slides which will make them more interesting for the audience to look at. For example: On my slide about brownies I could add some pictures of brownies, or use some pictures of some of the ingredients, or even put a small graphic of a brownie recipe in one of the corners. I might also change the background of the slide so that it is not just a stark white colour. Add some engaging elements to your slides today. Make sure that anything you add is relevant and has a purpose; adding a picture of the moon to a slide on brownies might make it look nice, but it adds nothing to the presentation and will most likely confuse the audience!

Maths: LO: to use reflection.

Today you will need to find a mirror which you can position on a table or hold in your hand.

I would like you to take a piece of paper and draw a line straight down the middle of the page. Then, draw a shape on the left hand side of the line: this task will be easier if you draw a regular shape using a ruler (square, triangle). Take a mirror and do your best to line it up on the line you drew; you should now be able to see the shape you just drew in the reflection; use this to visualise the next part of the task. Try to draw the shape on the right hand side of the page, as if it were an exact reflection of the shape on the left. What do you notice about the reflected shape?

If you want to use your art skills, you could try drawing half of something naturally symmetrical (like a butterfly) and then drawing the other half afterwards.

Tips: The easiest way to do this is to have the shape on the left actually touching the centre line; it makes reflecting it that much easier.

Try measuring the distance from the line to each corner of the shape you drew on the left, and then measuring the same distance out on the right. You can then plot each corner and join them up.

Draw the shape further from the centre line for a trickier challenge.

Draw a more complex shape (pentagon, hexagon, etc.) for a trickier challenge.