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Monday 15th June Reading Activity:
• Read The Sorting Hat. Have you read or seen this part of the
story before? How do you think you would feel if you were
there in the Great Hall?
• Watch the film version of this scene. Which part of the scene do
you think that the film does best?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cla_h_f8M
Grammar Activity:
• Use the PowerPoint to hear the teaching on Clauses and
Conjunctions or use the Revision Card remind yourself.
• Complete the Conjunctions Activity. You can use the List of
Conjunctions to help you.
Writing Activity:
• Watch the film clip of the Sorting Hat again.
• Now write some sentences about the scene. Use conjunctions
in your sentences, using the List of Conjunctions.
Optional: Try these Fun-Time Extras
• Can you find out which house you belong to? Ask a grown-up to
help you register and then use this Sorting Ceremony website:
https://my.wizardingworld.com/sorting-hat/intro
The Sorting Hat
The door swung open at once. A tall, black-
haired witch in emerald-green robes stood
there. She had a very stern face and Harry’s
first thought was that this was not someone
to cross.
‘The firs’-years, Professor McGonagall,’ said Hagrid.
‘Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here.’
She pulled the door wide. The Entrance Hall was so big you could
have fitted the whole of the Dursleys’ house in it. The stone walls
were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling
was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing
them led to the upper floors.
They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor.
Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to
the right – the rest of the school must already be here – but
Professor McGonagall showed the first-years into a small empty
chamber off the hall. They crowded in, standing rather closer
together than they would usually have done, peering about
nervously.
‘Welcome to Hogwarts,’ said Professor McGonagall. ‘The start-of-
term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the
Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very
important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be
something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes
with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend
free time in your house common room.
From: JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Revision Card – Conjunctions
Conjunctions Activity
Highlight the clauses and underline the conjunctions in these sentences. Re-write the sentence using a different conjunction. Does this change the meaning of the sentence?
Hermione smiled with satisfaction while aiming the curse at Draco.
Hermione smiled with satisfaction after aiming the curse at Draco.
Hermione made a disappearing spell while Professor Snape wasn’t looking.
Harry Potter released Hedwig because Dudley hurt him.
Ron skidded along the floor when it was wet.
Dudley’s shirt buttons popped open as he ate his roast dinner.
The snake slithered quickly because he was hurt.
The Whomping Willow tried to hit Hermione because she was too near.
The Great Hall was lit with a thousand candles because it was dark outside.
Hagrid fed his dragon when he left for Privet Drive.
Moaning Myrtle cried in the toilets because she ran away.
List of Conjunctions
When? before after when while as until
Why? because as so
Where? where wherever
Sorting Hat Sentences
Watch the Sorting Hat scene and write some sentences here
about it using conjunctions.
Conjunctions Activity - ANSWERS
Highlight the clauses and underline the conjunctions in these sentences. Re-write the sentence using a different conjunction. The second answers are suggestions only – other answers will be acceptable.
Hermione smiled with satisfaction while aiming the curse at Draco.
Hermione smiled with satisfaction after aiming the curse at Draco.
Hermione made a disappearing spell while Professor Snape wasn’t looking.
Hermione made a disappearing spell because Professor Snape wasn’t looking.
Harry Potter released Hedwig because Dudley hurt him.
Harry Potter released Hedwig before Dudley hurt him.
Ron skidded along the floor when it was wet.
Ron skidded along the floor because it was wet.
Dudley’s shirt buttons popped open as he ate his roast dinner.
Dudley’s shirt buttons popped open after he ate his roast dinner.
The snake slithered quickly because he was hurt.
The snake slithered quickly before he was hurt.
The Whomping Willow tried to hit Hermione because she was too near.
The Whomping Willow tried to hit Hermione since she was too near.
The Great Hall was lit with a thousand candles because it was dark outside.
The Great Hall was lit with a thousand candles before it was dark outside.
Hagrid fed his dragon when he left for Privet Drive.
Hagrid fed his dragon after he left for Privet Drive.
Moaning Myrtle cried in the toilets because she ran away.
Moaning Myrtle cried in the toilets when she ran away.
Tuesday 16th June 1. Reading Activity:
• Read We Got Potter. Now watch the Sorting Hat scene again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cla_h_f8M
• Which is better at helping you know how Harry is feeling? Why?
Why might someone say the opposite?
2. Grammar Activity:
• Use the Revision Card to remind yourself about clauses and
conjunctions.
• Complete Harry Potter Clauses. Challenge yourself to come up
with two or even three versions of each sentence. You can use
List of Conjunctions to help you.
3. Writing Activity:
• Choose your three favourite sentences.
• Write them in your best handwriting and illustrate them
carefully to make a set of Scenes from Harry Potter.
Optional - Try this Fun-Time Extra:
• Can you find out more about the main characters in Harry
Potter? Could you make a guide about them? You could start
with this website:
https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/web-harry-potter-
whos-who-harry-ron-hermione-hp-at-home
We got Potter!
The last thing Harry saw before the hat
dropped over his eyes was the Hall full of
people craning to get a good look at him.
Next second he was looking at the black
inside of the hat. He waited.
‘Hmm,’ said a small voice in his ear. ‘Difficult. Very difficult.
Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There’s talent,
oh my goodness, yes – and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now
that’s interesting … So where shall I put you?’ Harry gripped the
edges of the stool and thought, ‘Not Slytherin, not Slytherin.’
‘Not Slytherin, eh?’ said the small voice. ‘Are you sure? You could
be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will
help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that – no?
Well, if you’re sure – better be GRYFFINDOR!’
Harry heard the hat shout the last word to the whole Hall. He
took off the hat and walked shakily towards the Gryffindor table.
He was so relieved to have been chosen and not put in Slytherin,
he hardly noticed that he was getting the loudest cheer yet.
Percy the Prefect got up and shook his hand vigorously, while the
Weasley twins yelled, ‘We got Potter! We got Potter!’ Harry sat
down opposite the ghost in the ruff he’d seen earlier. The ghost
patted his arm, giving Harry the sudden, horrible feeling he’d just
plunged it into a bucket of ice-cold water.
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Revision Card – Conjunctions
Harry Potter Clauses
Read the sentences and add an extra clause to add more detail. Choose a conjunction to join the two clauses together.
E.g. Draco sniggered in Crabbe’s ear…. before he kicked Harry’s chair over.
Harry slammed the door shut They were looking straight in the eyes of a monstrous dog Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life Harry picked the soft, shining cloth off the floor Potions lessons were turning into a sort of weekly torture
List of Conjunctions
When? before after when while as until
Why? because as so
Where? where wherever
Scenes from Harry Potter
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Wednesday 17th June 1. Reading Activity:
• Read Broomstick Lesson. How do you think Harry was feeling?
How is Madam Hooch described? How would you feel to be
taught by her?
• Watch the film version of this scene. Do you notice anything
that is different to the book? What is the same?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTS1VlvlGRg
2. Grammar Activity:
• Think about how you would feel at different parts of the
Broomstick lesson.
• Complete How would you feel? Use some of the Emotion
Vocabulary in your answers.
3. Writing Activity:
• Write about taking part in a Broomstick Lesson. Describe what
you do and how you feel, what happens to you and what
happens to other people.
• Use Conjunctions List and include some sentences with
conjunctions joining clauses together.
Optional - Try these Fun-Time Extras:
• Can you design a broomstick? Make a labelled diagram to show
its magical features.
• Can you make your own broomstick charm? Follow the
instructions on this video:
https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/learn-how-to-
make-broomstick-charm
Broomstick Lesson
At three-thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron and the other Gryffindors
hurried down the front steps into the grounds for their first flying lesson.
It was a clear, breezy day and the grass rippled under their feet as they
marched down the sloping lawns towards a smooth lawn on the opposite
side of the grounds to the Forbidden Forest, whose trees were swaying
darkly in the distance.
The Slytherins were already there, and so were twenty broomsticks lying
in neat lines on the ground. Harry had heard Fred and George Weasley
complain about the school brooms, saying that some of them started to
vibrate if you flew too high, or always flew slightly to the left.
Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short, grey hair and yellow
eyes like a hawk.
‘Well, what are you all waiting for?’ she barked. ‘Everyone stand by a
broomstick. Come on, hurry up.’
Harry glanced down at his broom. It was old and some of the twigs stuck
out at odd angles.
‘Stick out your right hand over your broom,’ called Madam Hooch at the
front, ‘and say, “Up!”’
‘UP!’ everyone shouted.
Harry’s broom jumped into his hand at once, but it was one of the few
that did. Hermione Granger’s had simply rolled over on the ground and
Neville’s hadn’t moved at all. Perhaps brooms, like horses, could tell when
you were afraid, thought Harry; there was a quaver in Neville’s voice that
said only too clearly that he wanted to keep his feet on the ground.
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
How would you feel?
How would you feel as the lesson was starting?
How would you feel as you gave the ‘Up’ command?
How would you feel as you got on your broomstick?
How would you feel as it started to fly?
How would you feel when it came back to land?
Emotion Vocabulary
List of Conjunctions
When? before after when while
as until
Why?
because as so
Where? where
wherever
Broomstick Lesson
Write about a broomstick lesson. Describe what you do and how you feel, what happens to you and what happens to other people.
Use conjunctions in your writing.
Thursday 18th June
1. Reading Activity:
• Read Quidditch. What did Harry learn about Quidditch? Which
of these imagined facts is the best would you say?
• Watch the film version of Harry learning the rules of Quidditch.
What do you learn from the film that you don’t learn from the
book?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thL8QAsPhK0
2. Grammar Activity:
• Use the PowerPoint to hear the teaching about adverbs. If this
is not possible, use the Revision Card to remind yourself.
• Complete Adverb Practice.
3. Writing Activity:
• Watch the film scene of Harry’s first Quidditch match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVS9yn2R7c
• Write some sentences that use adverbs to describe the match.
Use Adverbs List to help you.
Optional - Try these Fun-Time Extras:
• Can you write some sentences with adverbs about a sport that
you enjoy?
• Can you find out more about the rules of Quidditch? You could
make a plan to play it when you go back to school.
Quidditch
The Quidditch season had begun. On
Saturday, Harry would be playing in his first
match after weeks of training: Gryffindor
versus Slytherin. If Gryffindor won, they
would move up into second place in the
House Championship.
Hardly anyone had seen Harry play because Wood had decided that,
as their secret weapon, Harry should be kept, well, secret. But the
news that he was playing Seeker had leaked out somehow, and Harry
didn’t know which was worse – people telling him he’d be brilliant or
people telling him they’d be running around underneath him, holding
a mattress.
It was really lucky that Harry now had Hermione as a friend. He didn’t
know how he’d have got through all his homework without her, what
with all the last-minute Quidditch practice Wood was making them
do. She had also lent him Quidditch Through the Ages, which turned
out to be a very interesting read.
Harry learnt that there were seven hundred ways of committing a
Quidditch foul and that all of them had happened during a World Cup
match in 1473; that Seekers were usually the smallest and fastest
players and that most serious Quidditch accidents seemed to happen
to them; that although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees
had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara
Desert.
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Revision Card – Adverbs
Adverb Practice
Identify the adverbs in each sentence The 422nd World cup started spectacularly, with amazing fireworks.
Viktor Krum then flew skilfully around the arena.
The Bulgarian fans cheered loudly for their popular seeker.
The game began fast with both teams flying around the stadium.
Ireland scored promptly while Bulgaria played well.
Bulgaria grabbed the quaffle quickly and the teams were finally level.
Modify these sentences by adding two new adverbs to each one
e.g. Viktor grabbed the Snitch. could become Victor grabbed the Snitch
greedily /quickly /skilfully /tightly etc.
Victor grabbed the snitch.
The quaffle soared.
The Irish players celebrated.
Adverb List
almost awkwardly calmly
immediately easily rapidly
nearly defiantly perfectly
victoriously well excitedly
afterwards fortunately fast
cheerfully unfortunately reluctantly
beforehand triumphantly wildly
madly skilfully really
quietly yesterday honestly
Quidditch Match Sentences
Watch the film version of Harry’s first Quidditch match. Write sentences with adverbs about the match.
Quidditch Report – Answers
Identify the adverbs in each sentence - easier
The 422nd World cup started spectacularly, with amazing fireworks.
Viktor Krum then flew skilfully around the arena.
The Bulgarian fans cheered loudly for their popular seeker.
The game began fast with both teams flying around the stadium.
Ireland scored promptly while Bulgaria played well.
Bulgaria grabbed the quaffle quickly and the teams were finally level.
Friday 19th June – Optional Tasks
• Read Hogwarts’ School Report. • Use the Report Template to write a school report.
• It could be for one of the Harry Potter characters or it could be for you, one of your friends or someone in
your family. Try to show their character in what you write in the report.
• Can you explore more of the Harry Potter at Home website?
You could try this Wordsearch:
https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/just-a-hopefully-easy-harry-potter-wordsearch
• Can you read or listen to one of the Harry Potter books?
Hogwarts School Report
Name: Neville Longbottom
Age: 11
House: Gryffindor
Attendance: 100%
General behaviour: Neville is a shy boy who tries his hardest, although sometimes his clumsiness and lack of focus detracts from his learning. He is particularly close with his pet toad Trevor, which is good, as he sometimes struggles to make friends.
Potions: Neville lacks attention to detail and unfortunately there is always a worry that he will hurt himself or others in my lessons. He is one of my least capable students.
Transfiguration: Neville finds this area difficult and he has even been unable to transfigure the simplest of items into a small animal.
Charms: Neville lacks confidence in this subject but he is enthusiastic and has a talent if he can practise more and master basic charms.
History of Magic: Neville struggles with this subject and I would suggest extra homework to get up to speed with Goblin Rebellions of the 17th and 18th century.
Herbology: Neville shows real potential in herbology. He shows a good understanding of the subject. Keep up the good work Neville.
Care of Magical Creatures: Neville is a very caring young man and he clearly loves animals, although his lack of confidence can make the animals nervous and unpredictable.
Defence against the Dark Arts: As yet Neville has shown little promise, although given that his parents were both aurors, we would expect him to flourish in this area at some point, hopefully.
Sport: Neville has tried very hard but he has failed to master the art of flying on a broomstick, even breaking a wrist, so as yet he has not taken part in any Quidditch games.
House points:
-3
Pupil comments:
I do try my hardest but I always seem to end up doing something wrong. It is hard following in my parent’s footsteps.
Head of House comments: From his teacher’s comments, it is clear that Neville tries very hard. He clearly struggles in certain areas despite this, however with a bit more focus and maturity he should do well in the coming years.
Name: Age: House: Attendance:
General behaviour:
Transfiguration:
Potions: Charms:
History of Magic:
Herbology: Care of Magical Creatures:
Defence against the Dark Arts:
Sport: House points:
Pupil comments:
Head of House comments: