The English Department are excited to meet you all in September.

In the meantime, we’d like you to complete some of these tasks – there are four listed below. You will also find a Summer reading challenge at the bottom – have a go at this and you’ll be entered in a prize draw in September.

*1. Write your own Limerick

A Limerick is a form of poetry that follows a strict rhyme scheme and pattern of rhythm. For example:

There was a young girl called Jill

Who freaked at the sight of a drill.

She brushed every day.

Her dentist did say,

‘Your teeth are quite perfect, no bill.’

Notice how lines 1, 2 and 5 always rhyme with each other and have 8 syllables. Lines 3 and 4 also rhyme with each other and have 5 syllables.

We’d like you to have a go at writing your own Limerick. Click on the blue ‘Limericks’ link which will take you to a Powerpoint presentation to help you: Limericks

*2. Read a story

Read the story ‘The Man with the Yellow Face’ by Anthony Horowitz. It’s a really engaging mystery story.

Click on this link to access the story: The Man With the Yellow Face

When you have read it, answer the questions which you’ll find on this link: The Man with the Yellow Face Tasks

If you don’t have a printer you can just write the answers on a sheet of paper and hand that in to your new teacher.

*3. Film Club

With someone in your family, watch a film based on a book that you have read. Have a chat about what you both thought of the adaptation.

*4. Sit back and listen

Listen to a free audiobook here: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

*5. …. and the Summer Reading Challenge

Take a look at this Powerpoint presentation and take part in the Eastbrook Summer Reading challenge: Summer reading challenge

We hope you enjoy your summer holiday – and we’ll see in you September!