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🍽️ What's on the Menu in 2050?

🐛 Can Bugs Save Wales and the World?

Literacy Homework – Autumn Term

Please bring your completed literacy tasks into school for me to mark.

✍️ Activity 1 – Writing Task

Create the Food of the Future!

Imagine you are a food inventor in the year 2050.

Your company has created a brand-new sustainable food containing insects. Your job is to convince people in Wales to try it!

Choose your product. It could be:

🦗 Cricket crisps
🐛 Mealworm pasta
🪲 Beetle burgers
🐜 Ant chocolate
🦗 Cricket protein bars
🐛 Insect noodles
🍕 Bug pizza
Or invent something completely new!

Your task

Create a persuasive advertisement for your product.

Your advertisement should include:

🏷️ Product name

Give your food a memorable name.

🎯 Slogan

Create a catchy slogan to make people remember your product.

🌱 Why is it good for the planet?

Explain how your food could help create a more sustainable future.

👅 What does it taste like?

Use exciting descriptive vocabulary.

💪 Why should people try it?

Give at least three persuasive reasons.

⭐ Persuasive language

Try to include:

rhetorical questions
powerful adjectives
facts
exaggeration
commands
persuasive phrases
alliteration

⭐ Challenge

Write a short paragraph aimed specifically at someone who says:

“Yuck! I would NEVER eat a bug!”

Try to persuade them to change their mind.

🔎 Activity 2 – Reading & Food Detective Task

What's Really on Your Plate?

You might think that everything on your plate is easy to identify.

But food can contain lots of ingredients that you don't immediately recognise!

Your task is to become a Food Detective.

Choose three food products from your kitchen at home. Ask an adult before looking at or handling food packaging.

You could choose:

cereal
bread
biscuits
crisps
chocolate
noodles
a meat product
a vegetarian product
a snack

Read the food label and ingredients list carefully.

For each product, record:

🕵️ Product 1

Name:
Country where it was made:
How many ingredients can you find?
Which ingredient comes first?
Which ingredient comes last?
Can you find an ingredient you don't recognise?
What information is given about nutrition?

Repeat this for Product 2 and Product 3.

🧠 Now investigate!

Answer these questions using the information you found.

Why do you think ingredients are listed on food packaging?
Why do you think the ingredients are listed in a particular order?
Which product had the longest ingredients list?
Which product appeared to have the simplest ingredients list?
Did any of the labels contain information that surprised you?
Why is it important to read food labels?
What information would you want to know before trying a new food?
If you were designing food for 2050, what information would you put on the packaging?

🐛 Bug Food Challenge

Imagine that one of your products contained insect protein.

What information would you want the packaging to tell you?

Design a small 2050 food label showing:

Product name
Ingredients
Allergens
Nutritional information
Country of origin
Sustainability information
A suitable picture or symbol

📝 Activity 3 – Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar

Part 1 – Punctuation

Add the missing punctuation.

Remember to check for:

Capital letters • full stops • commas • speech marks • apostrophes • question marks • exclamation marks

would you eat a crunchy cricket burger
insects are eaten in many parts of the world
mia asked would you really eat a mealworm
crickets ants grasshoppers and mealworms can all be eaten
the scientist said insects could become an important food of the future
dont forget that insects are important to our ecosystems
wow this chocolate contains insect protein
could bugs really help save wales and the world

Part 2 – Capital Letters

Correct the capital letter mistakes.

insects are found all over the world.
bees are important pollinators in wales.
some people in mexico eat grasshoppers.
the amazon rainforest contains thousands of insect species.
britain is home to many different species of beetles and butterflies.
scientists are researching sustainable food for the future.

Part 3 – Spelling 🐞

One word in each group is spelled correctly.

Copy the correct spelling and use it in a sentence.

sustainabilty / sustainability / sustanability
enviroment / environment / envirnoment
nutrision / nutrition / nutrtition
protien / protein / proteen
insekt / insect / insecct
ecosystum / ecosystem / ekosystem
pollination / polination / pollinashun
agricultur / agriculture / aggriculture

⭐ Challenge

Choose three of the words above and write one sentence containing all three.

Part 4 – Grammar: Choose the Correct Word

Choose the correct word from the brackets.

Insects (is / are) found all over the world.
A cricket (can / cans) provide protein.
Some people (eat / eats) insects as part of their normal diet.
Bees (help / helps) pollinate flowers.
Scientists (is / are) researching sustainable food.
Farming insects (uses / use) fewer resources than some forms of livestock farming.
An insect (has / have) six legs.
Many insects (play / plays) an important role in ecosystems.

🔤 Activity 5 – Vocabulary Challenge

The Language of the Future

People often use specialist words when talking about food, farming and sustainability.

Match each word to its meaning.

Words

Sustainable
Protein
Ecosystem
Nutrition
Agriculture
Alternative
Resource
Consumption

Meanings

A. The process of eating or using something.

B. A food or choice that can replace another option.

C. The farming of crops and animals.

D. Something useful that we need or use.

E. The way living things and their environment work together.

F. A nutrient that helps the body grow and repair itself.

G. The food and nutrients that our bodies need to stay healthy.

H. Something that can continue for a long time without causing too much damage to the environment.

⭐ Vocabulary in Context

Choose five of the words and write your own sentences about food in 2050.

⭐⭐ Super Challenge

Write a short paragraph containing at least six of the vocabulary words.

Try to make your paragraph sound like it has been written by a food scientist in 2050.

✍️ Activity 6 – Handwriting

The Food of the Future

Copy the paragraph below in your best handwriting.

Remember to:

Keep your letters a consistent size.
Space your words carefully.
Use capital letters correctly.
Check your punctuation.
Join your handwriting neatly where appropriate.

Copy this paragraph:

What will be on our plates in 2050? As the world's population grows, we may need to find new ways to produce food. Insects could become one possible source of protein. Crickets, mealworms and grasshoppers are already eaten in many parts of the world. They may also require fewer resources to farm than some larger animals. However, insects are not only useful as food. They play an important role in ecosystems and help keep our planet healthy.

Maths - Teaching videos and answers provided to mark at home

Autumn

Activity 1 - Place Value

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/31/place-value-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/place-value-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/place-value-answers.pdf

Activity 2 - Addition

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/05/30/addition-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/addition-pdf1.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/addition-answers.pdf

Activity 3 - Subtraction

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/05/30/subtraction-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/subtraction-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/subtraction-answers.pdf

Activity 4 - Multiples

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/17/multiples-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/multiples-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/multiples-answers.pdf

Activity 5 - Factors

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/20/factors-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/factors-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/factors-answers.pdf

Spring

Activity 1 -Multiplication

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/21/multiplication-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/21/multiplication-questions/

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/multiplication-answers.pdf

Activity 2 - Division

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/05/30/division-video/

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2020/05/22/long-division-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/division-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/division-answers.pdf

Activity 3 - Prime Numbers

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/17/prime-numbers-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/prime-numbers-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Prime-number-answers.pdf

Activity 4 - Square Numbers

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/17/square-numbers-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/square-numbers-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/square-numbers-answers.pdf

Activity 5 - Cube Numbers

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/15/cube-numbers-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cube-numbers-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cube-numbers-answers.pdf

Summer

Activity 1 -Decimals - Adding and subtracting

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/15/adding-decimals-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/adding-decimals-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-decimals-answers-1.pdf

Activity 2 - Decimals - Multiplying

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/20/multiplying-decimals-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/decimals-multiplication-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/decimals-mult-answers.pdf

Activity 3 - Area of rectangles

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/05/30/area-of-a-rectangle-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/area-of-squares-and-rectangles-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/area-of-a-rectangle-answers.pdf

Activity 4 - Coordinates

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/16/coordinates-video/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/coordinates-pdf.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/coordinates-answers.pdf

Activity 5 - Angles - Measuring and drawing

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/2018/07/18/measuring-and-drawing-angles-videos/

Questions - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/measuring-drawing-angles.pdf

Answers - https://corbettmathsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/angles-answers.pdf

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