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Year 3 English home learning – Thursday 16th July

Using all of your knowledge about Coventry past and present create a a list of words that relate to coventry.

For example –

  • Museum
  • Cathedral
  • Lunt Fort
  • Cars

Now create a word search using these words.

Please send us a photo of your amazing word searches and then ask a family member to complete it.

Have FUN!

54 responses to “Year 3 English home learning – Thursday 16th July”

  1. Abdulasiis M.

    Miss I no what is a word search which one are you talking about

  2. Nihit N.

    I did it.

    1. Mrs A Patel

      Well done Nihit, how many words did you find?

  3. Abdulasiis M.

    Miss what word search

    1. Miss Millar

      A word search is a square with lots of words hidden among other letters, look it up to see an example. We made them in Spanish this year.

      1. Saee N.

        like this?
        Legend has it that the city was the birthplace of St. George, dragon slayer and patron saint of England.
        Britain’s car industry was founded by Daimler in a disused Coventry cotton mill in 1896.
        William Shakespeare was said to have jilted a Coventry woman on the eve of their wedding to marry Anne Hathaway.
        Coventry has 26 twin towns and cities, including Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), Dresden and Jinan in China.
        The first ยฃ5 note in a worker’s peacetime wage was paid in Coventry during the 1950’s.
        George Eliot lived and went to school in Coventry. Life in the city around 1830 was the model for Middlemarch, her most famous novel.
        All modern bicycles are descended from John Kemp Starley’s Rover safety cycle, invented in Coventry in 1885.
        The great Victorian actress Ellen Terry was born in Coventry and her counterpart a century earlier, Sarah Siddons, was married in the city.
        Tencel, the revolutionary fibre now taking the fashion world by storm, was developed at Courtaulds laboratories in Coventry.
        In November 1940, Coventry Cathedral was destroyed by a handful of incendiary bombs lodged in its timber roof. There was no water to put the fires out.
        The city was the birthplace of jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, the poet Philip Larkin and the pop impresario Pete Waterman.
        Coventry once had the only unfortified royal palace outside London. The surviving gatehouse is the oldest building in Britain to be used as a register office.
        George Orwell wanted to use Coventry as the model for his study of poverty in England during the 1930’s. But he found it too prosperous and took The Road To Wigan Pier.
        Warwick Arts Centre, the biggest complex of its kind outside London, is in Coventry, at the University of Warwick.
        Sir Henry Parkes, five times Premier of New South Wales and the father of modern Australia, was born in Coventry in 1815.
        Coventry has two universities (Warwick and Coventry) and three cathedrals – the ruins of St. Mary’s, destroyed by Henry VIII, the ruins of St. Michael’s, blitzed in November 1940 and Sir Basil Spence’s new cathedral, consecrated in 1962 and recently voted Britain’s most popular 20th century building.
        The expression ‘true blue’ has Coventry origins and dates from the 14th century, when cloth dyed Coventry blue became very fashionable and expensive.
        The first tank, the first traffic indicators for cars and the first dumper truck were built in Coventry. The first motorised funeral was held in the city.
        The phrase ‘sent to Coventry’ originated during the English Civil War, when captured Royalists were imprisoned in the heavily fortified and strongly pro-Parliament city. They were given a hard time by the local people.
        Glass painter John Thornton, creator of York Minister’s Great East window, the finest single work in stained glass in mediaeval England, was a Coventry man.
        Dick Whittington was member of one of Coventry’s mediaeval craft guilds.
        The Coventry Carol, from a 16th century Mystery Play, was recently voted the country’s seventh most popular carol.
        Chuck Berry recorded his number one hit ‘My Ding-A-Ling’ at a Coventry dance hall.
        Coventry was the birthplace of Tom Mann, one of the ‘greats’ of the trade union movement.
        Coventry Transport Museum has the biggest collection of British made cars, motorcycles and bicycles in the world.

  4. Hammad A.

    Museum
    war
    library
    city centre
    cathedral
    art gallery
    lady Godiva
    fort
    plane
    supermarkets
    parks
    towers

    1. Miss Millar

      Great stuff. How did you get on with your word search?

  5. Bilal H.

    I will do on paper then send year 3 upload

    1. Miss Millar

      Amazing. I can’t wait to see!

  6. Moosa K.

    My brother has completed the word search.

    1. Miss Millar

      Did he find all the words?

  7. Safah D.

    Museum
    Cathedral
    Cars
    Lunt fort
    Buses
    Shops
    Houses
    WWII bombing
    Houses

    1. Miss Millar

      Great stuff. How did you get on with the word search?

  8. Simin W.

    I will do it.

    1. Miss Millar

      Good stuff!

  9. Serina I.

    Museum
    Cathedral
    Lunt Fort
    Cars
    Lady Godiva
    war
    bomb

    1. Miss Millar

      Well done, Serina!

  10. Sadeen S.

    I have completed this, my mum will send a picture.

    1. Miss Millar

      Nice one! I look forward to seeing it!

  11. Muhammad B.

    Im gounna do it .

    1. Miss Millar

      Super stuff!

  12. Sadiq A.

    Museum war

    1. Miss Millar

      C’mon Sadiq. You can think of a few more!

  13. Esa M.

    I will send an email of my wordsearch.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      We look forward to seeing your work Esa!

  14. Faizan R.

    My brother will do the word search my mum will email it.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      We look forward to seeing your word search Faizan!

  15. Jasmine M.

    Museum
    Cathedral
    Lunt fort
    Cars
    Plane
    Lady Godiva
    Houses
    Shops
    War
    Bombing
    Trees
    Art gallery
    Dunlop

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Good girl Jasmine! Don’t forget to send a photo of your word search when you have completed it.

  16. Abdulasiis M.

    Museums
    Cathderal
    Fohshil library
    City centre

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Good boy Abulasiis! Don’t forget to send a photo of your word search.

  17. Brooke M.

    I am going to make a wordsearch

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Good girl Brooke! We look forward to seeing your work.

  18. Aaminah A.

    I have completed this and I will send it.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Good girl Aaminah! We look forward to seeing your work.

  19. Azaan H.

    I will send you a email.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      I look forward to seeing a photo of your word search Azaan!

  20. Muhammad J.

    I HAVE DONE IT.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Great! Please send a photo of your word search Haaris.

  21. Osatohanmwen O.

    I have uploaded my work to year 3 upload on email.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      I look forward to seeing your word search Osato!

  22. Faizan R.

    English home learning
    Museum
    Cathedral
    Lunt fort
    Cars
    Plane
    Lady Godiva
    Houses
    Shops/ supermarket
    War
    Bombing
    Trees
    Art Gallery
    Belgrade Theatre
    Jaguar Car
    Dunlop
    Land Rover Car
    These are the words that I am going to use for my word search.
    My mum will take a picture and post it to the email.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      I look forward to seeing a photo of your word search Faizan!

  23. Moosa K.

    I have done this on a piece of paper.

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Great! Please send a photo of your word search Moosa.

  24. Hasti M.

    We did this in school

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Super! How did you get on Hasti?

  25. Mosaver M.

    Museum
    Cathedral
    Houses
    Planes
    Shops
    Supermarket
    Parks

    1. Mrs Sanders

      I look forward to seeing a photo of your word search Mosaver!

  26. Safa M.

    Museum
    Cathedral
    Cars
    Planes
    Houses
    Parks
    Shops / super markets

    1. Mrs Sanders

      Well done Safa! I look forward to seeing a photo of your word search!

  27. Afreen S.

    Museum
    War
    Shops
    Bombing
    Cathedral
    Trees
    Cars
    Pompei
    Houses
    Lint fort
    Towers

    1. Miss Millar

      Well done, Afreen!

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