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YEAR 7, YEAR 8
& YEAR 9 (CORE)
CROSS-CURRICULAR
CHALLENGE FORTNIGHT
REPORTER
Cross Curricular Fortnight 2020
Your Mission….
From Monday 29th June to Friday 10th July all Y7, Y8 and Y9
students will be taking part in a challenge yourself themed project.
Your mission is based on the theme of ‘Undercover Reporter’.
ONLY Y7 & Y8: You should pick four subject areas from the
list below and attempt their task(s). It is suggested that you complete REPORTER
two in the first week, and hand them in, and two in the second week.
ONLY Y9: You should do the English, Maths and Science task(s) plus
your bridging work for your option subjects. Remember you have two weeks to
complete the tasks from this booklet.
Each page is dedicated to a subject area and will give you instruction for what to do.
Many subjects have options so please ensure you read carefully. You should hand in
the work to your normal subject teacher and some subjects will post additional
instructions on SMHW where required.
If you have any questions or queries you should contact your normal teacher of that
subject area or the contact included on the page in this booklet.
This is supposed to be fun and a bit different to the usual work you have been set so
embrace the challenge and enjoy it!
Mission Contents
Art p1 History p9
Computing p2 Mathematics p10
Dance p3 MFL p11
D&T p4 Music p12
Drama p5 PE p13
English p6 RE p14
Food p7 Science p15
Geography p8
Cross Curricular Fortnight 2020
Your ART Mission….
FAMOUS ARTWORK HAS BEEN STOLEN, COPIED AND SOLD
TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, YOU MISSION IS TO GATHER AS
MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE AND HELP RECREATE
THE LOST ARTWORKS. YOU MUST BE DISCREET AND IF THE
ART THIEVES GET A HINT THAT YOU ARE ON THEIR TRAIL, REPORTER
THESE WORKS COULD BE LOST FOREVER. YOUR MISSION..
RESEARCH, PLAN AND EXPLORE…BEST OF LUCK DETECTIVE.
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at least 5 of these tasks):
Newly trained detective
• The Scream by Edvard Munch has been stolen! Create a poster asking for information on the theft.
• In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, use your detective skills to find out what happened and
how the painting was returned.
• Create a detailed forgery painting of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’, place tiny differences/hidden symbols in
your copy of this piece.
• Van Gogh ‘Starry night has been stolen, to prevent chaos and media attention, recreate a copy of this piece
to replace the original until it is found.
Qualified and experienced detective
• It has become popular for people to pose themselves as copy-cat characters from famous paintings. Recreate
your own famous painting using items from around your house and photograph it.
• Investigate the artist Carl Warner and his Foodscapes. Carl Warner tries to trick the viewer into believing they
are looking at a real scene before they realise it's actually made from food! Create your own copy-cat
landscape using food items.
• Appropriation in art is the collection of materials or the direct influence of images that already exist, in order
to produce something new. Choose two of your favourite artworks and change them using your own style to
produce something new.
• Create a detailed forgery of a painting based off of a famous painting of your choice with at least 3 tiny
differences/hidden symbols in it.
Highest ranked detective
• Imagine that you have discovered a series of forged artwork. Create a case file of evidence to try and solve the
mystery, include pictures of the work, suspect profiles, informant statements, evidence etc.
• The artist Damien Hurst has previously been accused of stealing other people's ideas and creating his own work
from them. Your job is to investigate his past, find out more about these claims and create a newspaper article
on the scandal!
• Investigate the world of art forgery, explore its origins and why people pretend their work is that of someone
else, what do they gain? Find out who the most famous forgers are and how their work tricked experts into
believing it was made by another more famous artist. How do we tell if a piece of artwork is a fake, what
special techniques are there for spotting them? Create an article on what you find.
• Han Van Meegeren was a Dutch painter, considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th
Century. Produce your own Art forgery. Use the following techniques to trick your audience into thinking it is
real. Make Tempura paints, and reproduce a famous painting onto thick paper, card or canvass.
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Your COMPUTING Mission….
You are a secret agent of BIG (Boswells Intelligence for Good) ……. your
mission is to stop the launch of an attack drone from Python sabotage
drone dealer Katsu Kurry (last seen heading for ISS). Your mission
is to stop Katsu and his accomplice cyborg Algor by completing the
tasks below according to your level in Spy school. These tasks will
enable you to find the hidden code to stop the attack drone REPORTER
being launched. Hurry this message will self
destruct by 22 July ………
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV – aka Drone)
• What is an attack drone? Describe the main components of a drone and how it works.
• What was the first UAV; who developed it; what was its purpose?
• What does the Military use drones for? What other types of UAVs are there that help
the Military to save lives?
• You have to train your new junior spy Bin in how to use a drone. Create an instruction
sheet on how to get a drone to take off, fly to a location, land.
• You need to stop the drone taking off by writing a python or scratch program that
asks the user to input the code and IF they enter the correct code it will disarm the
attack drone, else it will launch the attach drone.
Cyborgs
What defines a cyborg?
Who was the first Human Cyborg in the UK and what year was this in? Explain
what makes a human cyborg in detail including the potential components.
You are investigating reports of a new type of cyborg emerging named Algor.
What does this look like? What functions does it have? What is it programmed
to do? Draw a mugshot of Algor labelling the components with a descriptive
introduction to Algor.
Cyber Security
What is meant by hacking? In relation to hacking what is a ‘Honey Pot’?
What Law was passed in 1990 to help protect against hacking?
Can you state a recent real life cyber attack that has happened in the UK in
the last year and write a 1 page report to the head of BIS giving details of the
attack and how the UK should protect itself.
There are 3 main types of Hackers. Investigate the 3 types of hackers.
Create a picture to explain visually using NO words the 3 types of hackers and
the difference between them.
Hint: Look at their hats ……
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Your DANCE Mission….
Research, explore and plan for a brand-new dance
production that is based on ‘SPIES’... BUT
‘shhhhhhh’ as you don’t want another
choreographer and producer to beat you to it and
launch their production before yours, therefore you
REPORTER
are working ‘undercover’ to find out and plan as
much as you can for your brand new dance work
without others knowing... Good luck!
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at least 5 of these tasks):
• Use at least 3 different websites (not Wikipedia!) to research the chosen theme - ‘SPIES’.
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key things you found out from your research.
• Write a front page headline article for a newspaper, detailing something scandalous or interesting
that you have found out about the theme.
• Design a costume for a dancer in your brand new dance work.
• Make your costume design – be as creative as you like – what materials have you got at home
that you could use? Newspaper, bin bags, egg boxes etc.
• Make a 3D set design for stage setting that you could design for a dance that was based on this
theme (you may need to then take a photograph of it).
• Choreograph a 30 second to 2:00 minute dance that could go into this dance work.
• Teach your motif/dance to a member of your family or a friend in your back garden (keep socially
distanced)
• Research how a choreographer creates a new professional dance work (maybe research Matthew
Bourne) - present the findings in a podcast or audio recording.
• Create a PowerPoint that storyboards your brand-new professional dance.
• Create a playlist of music that could be used in your dance work, that shows your theme.
• Compose your own piece of music for your dance work or write the lyrics to a song that could be
used in your dance work.
• Design a poster to advertise your new dance production, be sure to create and include a title for
your dance work.
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Your D&T Mission….
Research, design and manufacture a new board
game that is based on the theme of ‘SPIES’... BUT
‘shhhhhhh’ as you don’t want another designer to
beat you to it and launch their game before yours,
therefore you are working ‘undercover’ to find out REPORTER
and plan as much as you can for your brand new
game work without others knowing... Good luck!
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at least 5 of these tasks):
• Create a mood board based on he theme of ‘SPIES’.
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key things you found out from your
research.
• Design an instruction booklet/leaflet for your board game.
• Design the board of the game using a range of drawing techniques.
• Make your board game using a range of materials which you have available to you.
• Design and make a pair of dice which are based on your theme to be used with
your board game, if appropriate.
• Design and make the accessories required for your board game (e.g. counters, card,
3D aspects, etc).
• Create a packaging design for your board game. It could be a box or something
different which makes it more unique.
• Create a digital advert for your board game which could be used in an advertising
pitch.
• Design an advertising graphic for your board game which could be used in
magazines, newspapers, etc.
• Design a point of sale display stand which could be set up in a shop to help
advertise and sell your game.
• Create a 30 second video advert for your board game.
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Your Drama Mission….
You have been selected to be the next, up and coming agent for The
United Kingdom Under Cover Reporters Agency (UKUCRA). This is a
prestigious undercover, top secret agency. The UKUCRA help theatre
companies and producers to reimagine pre-existing plays and musicals.
They spy, review, design, create and even perform (in disguise obviously)
for all the UK’s top production companies. BUT they do so anonymously!
No one knows the true Identify of any of their agents. IT MUST STAY
THAT WAY! REPORTER
You must now decide on at least 5 of the operations below to take on and
complete to the best of your Secret Agent abilities. Choose a selection of
any level or skills you want from the selection of missions below!
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Your ENGLISH Mission….
SPIES – you are going to save the world from an undercover villain who
is trying to take over the world. You are going to stop them by
identifying them from a list of suspects and stopping them on their evil
mission! Good luck!
Choose at least 3 of the shorter tasks to
complete and then pick one of the key tasks to REPORTER
complete at the end.
1. Create a fact file of at least three of the key
suspects – who do you think the villain is? Describe
how they talk, how they move and any information Key Tasks – pick at least one of these to complete
that will help your undercover officers recognise 1. Write the first 400 words of a short-story about an
them! undercover spy.
2. Research at least 5 villains and superheroes – Think about the following:
who are they and what characteristics do they - Name of your Secret Agent (e.g. 007)
have? - Name of the Villain he is trying to take down (e.g.
3. Research Journey of Hero (Google ‘A Hero’s Goldfinger)
Journey Campbell) to map out the story behind the - Where will the opening take place (e.g. A remote snowy
hero trying to stop the villain mountain, an underwater lair, an abandoned building)
4. Create your own news report about one of the - Start your story in the middle of some action (e.g. an
crimes that has been committed where you explosion, your Secret Agent is tied up to a chair, a car
chase)
describe the villain. Think about what information
- Try to build tension – what big event will take place
you want to give the public. Create a short video in
- Remember this is only the beginning of the story so there
the same formal style a news channel would use.
doesn’t need to be a resolution (in other words: the Secret
5. Research the features that should be used in a Agent shouldn’t save the day).
crime report. Write your own crime report based on 2. Write a 400-word description inspired by the image
one of the offences the villain has committed so far. above. You do not need to think of character names or
6. Create a storyboard of the villain and his actions. include any sort of action. You’re just focusing on describing
Why has he chosen to attempt to try to take over the setting as shown in the image: you can also add your
the world in such an evil way? own details to the image and include these in your
7. Draw and label your villain. Think about what description.
they look like, what they wear and how others can
One word sentence □ Repetition □
identify them
Simple sentence □ Group of three □
8. Write a description of one of the crime scenes the
Personification □ Onomatopoeia □
villain has been involved in. Simile □ Alliteration □
9. Create a video interviewing the hero that is trying Metaphor □
to stop this villain. Remember to include emotive
language to engage your audience 3. Write your own monologue from the villain’s point of
10. Design a cover to your own book involving a view. First search for and watch ‘Syndrome’s Final
villain and a superhero. Remember to include your Monologue’ from ‘The Incredibles’ – what is he talking
‘blurb’ giving an overview of the story to go on the about? Focus on their emotions and feelings. Try to include:
• First person
back of the novel!
• How the character feels
11. Plot a story mountain of a story involving a
• Why they are trying to take over the world
villain. Remember to include: 1. Introduction
• How they feel about the hero and their actions
2. Build-up 3. Problem 4. Resolution 5. Ending • What they want to achieve by their actions
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Your FOOD Mission….
Research, explore and plan for a brand-new
restaurant that is based around the theme of
‘SPIES’. In order to plan the restaurant and
menu successfully you will need to conduct REPORTER
extensive research into all aspects of serving
food to the public.
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at least 5 of these tasks):
• Use at least 3 different websites to research the chosen theme – of food in disguise. Foods that look like other foods.
You could look at Heston Blumenthal’s - Christmas feasts. He creates dishes that taste completely different to their
appearance.
• Make a dish that looks like another food for example a burger birthday cake or bread rolls to look like fruit.
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key things you would need to research before setting up a restaurant – front of
house and in the kitchen.
• Design a meal for your favourite spy. Draw out the dish, add colour and notes to explain what each food is and how it
relates to the spy you have chosen.
• Draw the front of your new Spy restaurant.
• Design a menu for the “Spy” Restaurant. The food should fit the theme you have decided on. It might be around a
particular culture or based on a spy film. Aim for 3 starters, 6 mains and 3 desserts.
• Make one or some of the dishes from your Spy restaurant menu and ask your family to review your food.
• As a food critic write a review of your Spy dish, in the third person. Be positive, but critical about the dish you
produced. Describe its Appearance, taste, textures and aroma (smell).
• Write an advert to promote the opening of your new restaurant. Explain what dishes you will offer, any promotions
you have on whether you will offer take away as well as eat in and the opening times
• You are a mystery shopper who has been given the task of reviewing the quality of food and service, of 3 take away
restaurants in your area. Describe how easy it was to order, the speed of preparation, Ease of collection or delivery,
the presentation of the food, the quality of taste, texture, aroma of the dishes you ordered. Which restaurant would
you recommend and why? What good practice could you use in your “Spy” restaurant
• Make a list of all the checks a food health inspector would check if they came to your restaurant. Think about
temperature of fridges and freezers, routine cleaning, personal hygiene, use by dates.
• Test your food safety knowledge on this quiz: https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/search-results?q=food+poisoning
• Investigate “hidden sugars”. Produce a PowerPoint to explain what the term means, what hidden sugars are and where
they could be found. Explain how a shopper could look out for them.
• Using the “explore food” nutritional analysis, input your ingredients into the spreadsheet to show what nutrients are
contained in your dish.
You will need to have your ingredients listed in grams. http://explorefood.foodafactoflife.org.uk/
• Try this interactive quiz: https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/11-14-years/where-food-comes-from/interactive-
resources/#map
• Find out where your food will come from by making a list of the origins of your main ingredients. Calculate the food
miles. https://www.foodmiles.com/
• Explain how you could reduce the food miles in your dish and therefore reduce its carbon footprint.
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Your GEOGRAPHY Mission….
You are fluent in Korean. You are a new MI6 agent who has
been asked to work undercover in Pyongyang as an event
organiser at the British Embassy. Your dangerous
undercover job is to organise embassy events with business
people, aid charities and government officials in North Korea REPORTER
through the embassy. The meetings need to be organised so
they do not insult the locals and follow North Korea’s STRICT
rules and culture. These are very important. No one can be
allowed to lose ‘face’.
You mission is to research the culture of North Korea and
present it as a checklist to your team of agents so they know
how to operate, when trying to gather intelligence at these
meetings. North Korea has a powerful military government
who have huge arsenals of weapons and nuclear bombs.
Create a checklist of the key facts for each area of North Korea’s culture so your
agents are aware of the risks and how to behave so they fit into North Korea
when collecting intel.
1. The history of the North Korea Since 1939.
a. (What happened during WW2? What happened in 1950 with the USA
and China? Are they still at war now? What is the demilitarised zone?)
2. The Cult of the Leader.
a. (Kim il-Sung, Kim Jong-il are believed to be Gods; Why? How is Kim
Jong-un different?)
3. What are the rules that North Koreans have to live under?
a. (e.g. forced military service, pictures in every room, school’s sports
day activities)
4. North Korean has surprising wealth in natural resources such as oil, coal and minerals. What are
the main goods traded with other countries? What are the jobs and wealth like for the average
North Korean?
5. What are North Korea achievements at? (e.g. nuclear power stations and weapons, include fake
achievements, (like how many times they have won the world cup!))
6. Summarise some of the problems/dangers of North Korea’s regime
a. (E.g. the famines, the censorship, the brainwashing media, the concentration camps, the
executions, the punishments if North Koreans flee the country)
Extra
How likely is it that North Korean will invade South Korea? It is a nuclear power, with a huge, well-
armed, fanatical army. What would happen if it did happen? What other countries would get
involved and how? (USA, UK, China, Japan?).
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Your mission is to help your agents to collect accurate intel to
avoid this total war at all costs!
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Your HISTORY Mission….
Your task is to conduct a research project into a spy from history –
there are a number of examples below, although you may submit an
email request to your teacher if you wish to investigate a spy of you
own choosing who is not listed.
Your presentation should be one side of A4 and it should include the
following details; REPORTER
• The spy’s name and a picture
• Who they worked for and when/where they operated e.g. British
intelligence (SOE) during WW2
• Their codename (if they had one)
• Methods of Espionage – the methods used by the spy in obtaining
and passing on information
• Risk – how daring was the spy / how much danger were they in?
• Success – how long did their espionage activities last and how
important was the information they passed on? were they
eventually caught and what happened to them?
Early Modern Spies
• Thomas Cromwell – ran a network of spies during the reign of Henry VIII
• Sir Francis Walsingham – Elizabeth I’s spy master who foiled many plots against her
• Robert Cecil – helped to foil the infamous Gunpowder Plot during the reign of James I
American Civil War
• Harriett Tubman – rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad and served as a spy
for the Union during the American Civil War
WW2
• Virginia Hall – an American working for the British secret service during WW2 in Nazi occupied
France
• Josephine Baker – an American born, French entertainer and French resistance agent
Modern
• Klaus Fuchs – stole nuclear secrets and passed them to the Soviets during the Cold War
• Kim Philby - a British intelligence officer and double agent for the Soviet Union during the Cold
War
• Aldrich Ames – a former CIA officer turned double agent for the KGB
Challenge:
Why not try some of the CIA spy games for kids
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/index.html Mission Queries
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Your MATHEMATICS Mission….
Purchasing a House
1 Skills needed: 2 The Family
• Four Operations Students will be purchasing a house for
• Percentages the Wayne Family; Mr and Mrs Wayne and
• Budgeting their two children. Mr and Mrs Wayne
• Rounding to the have full time jobs and they have saved up REPORTER
nearest penny for a deposit. Students will need to
• Plans and Elevations investigate how to purchase a house and
• Scale Drawing the costs involved in the process.
3 The House 7 Mortgages
Based on the family size, pupils should decide Now that the students know how much
what type of house the family would money they have to spare on mortgages, they
need. They should decide how many should subtract the deposit and the solicitor
bedrooms and bathrooms are needed, along fees including house survey from the house
with the need for a garage or gardens. price and then use a mortgage calculator
4 House Hunt online to find out how much the monthly
Using the information above students should repayments would be. They should use the
go online and look for potential houses. They House Purchase – Mortgages worksheet for
should use the House Hunt worksheet in the this. Based on this the students then choose
folder. They need to research house prices in the house to purchase.
Essex, ideally narrow it down to Chelmsford.
8 Furniture
Several websites including Rightmove and
The class should assume that the house has
Zoopla would be a good start. They should
been purchased and the family are paying all
also study the plan view for the property and
of its bills and the mortgage. They should
the layout of the property.
calculate the money left over and use this as
5 Income the budget for furnishing the master
In order to decide if the family can afford the bedroom. Students should use either the
properties, students need to examine the internet or a shop catalogue to furnish the
family income. The parents are both working master bedroom. They should use the
with a combined salary of £60,000 so students House Purchase– Furniture worksheet for
must use percentages to work out how much this.
the parents would earn each month after
tax. They should use the House Purchase – 9 Furnishing a Room
Family Income worksheet for this. Pupils have now bought furniture for a
6 Outgoings bedroom and they should now create a scale
Students must work out how much of this drawing to arrange the furniture in the
income is spent on food and bills. They should room. This can be adapted for classes as it can
budget average spending and calculate how be done with given furniture with a basic scale
much is left over at the end of the month (e.g. 1cm = 1m) or pupils can create their own
including council tax and insurances. They drawing based on furniture they have
should use the House Purchase – Income and purchased.
Outgoings worksheet for this.
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Your MFL Mission….
You've attended a festival/celebration
somewhere in the Spanish/French/German
speaking world. Create a double-page REPORTER
magazine article all about it (in English).
• Report back to people in the UK about the sights you've seen and sounds you’ve
heard.
• What is different to how you might celebrate this festival? Do you also celebrate it
in the UK at all?
• What are people wearing? Is there anything strange about it?
• Is there anything you'd like to take home and try out?
• You could also include photos or illustrations of …
o the event
o the costumes
o typical food and drink (you could include recipes)
• Add links to videos of typical music / dancing from the festival
• You could also research the history/origins of the festival…
Some ideas…
France - 14 July / la fête de la musique / puppet festival in Charleville-Mézières /
Menton lemon festival …
Germany - Fasching / May Day / Schutzenfest / Day of German Unity / Oktober Beer
festival / St Martin’s Day / Christmas markets / der Rhein in Flammen...
Spain/Latin America - Semana Santa / Pamplona Bull Run / Tomatina / Las Fallas / Dia
de los Muertos…
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Your MUSIC Mission….
Research, explore and plan for a brand-new Spy
movie soundtrack that is based on ‘James
Bond’... BUT ‘shhhhhhh’ as you don’t want another
composer to beat you to it and launch their movie
before yours, therefore you are working
REPORTER
‘undercover’ to find out and plan as much as you
can for your brand new music score without others
knowing... Good Luck!
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at least 5 of these tasks):
Easy
• Design a poster to advertise your new spy movie.
• Create a playlist of music that shows your spy movie music research on Spotify/iTunes etc.
• Create some sound FX that could be used in a spy movie using household objects.
• Watch scenes from at least 3 different spy movies to research spy music in movies (think James Bond,
Spy Kids, Bourne Identity etc.)
Intermediate
• Create a PowerPoint that storyboards your movie scene to match your music
• Research how a composer creates a new film score (look at Hans Zimmer/John Barry/John Williams) -
present the findings in a podcast or audio recording.
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key instrument you noticed were used and how they were used.
• Design an album cover for the soundtrack ready to be released.
Advanced
• Compose your own pop song with lyrics to be the theme song for the movie (e.g. every bond movie has its
own theme song)
• Compose a 30 second piece of music on edu.bandlab.com to go with a specific scene (e.g.
chase/creeping/death/intro scene)
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key musical elements you found out from your research.
• Make a graphic score that maps your music (google graphic score for help on this – it doesn’t have to be
super detailed)
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Your PE Mission….
REPORT FOR A NEWSPAPER/NEWS REPORT ON RACSIM IN FOOTBALL
Using various YouTube clips such as;
‘Rio Ferdinand speaks passionately about the issues of racism within football’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnC66D0edo8
‘Outrage as Spurs fans warned 3 times over racist abuse’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di1FmX4Pab0
‘The black players who braved abuse and changed the game- footballs fight against REPORTER
racism’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb74EvJXX04
And any others that take your fancy.
In your article /news item you might want to touch on the following
• Players who have suffered abuse, what exactly they have had to put up with and how
it affects their families as well.
• How it’s changed over the years.
• Stadium/pitch and social media abuse.
• Organisations and schemes that have been set up to try and combat racism including UEFA protocol.
• The situation in the UK and abroad.
• Is it escalating?
• What is your view on ow it should be tackled?
• Can technology help in stamping it out?
• What should the punishments be both on the pitch and in the stadium?
UNDERCOVER TALENT SPOTTER / SCOUT
You are a talent spotter/scout working for your favourite professional sports team. Your manager approaches you and
asks you to go undercover and write a detailed analysis on one of your opponents and their strengths and weaknesses
ready for the next match/game. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, you are unable to go out and actually
physically watch the matches/games and performers live! Instead you are going to have to do any research on the
opponents via video analysis, i.e. YouTube, Dailymotion etc.
Things the manager would like to see include:
• The opposition’s strengths as a team
• The opposition’s weaknesses as a team
• Any of their star players and their own individual strengths and weaknesses
• Any tactics that the opposition use
• Any statistics that might be worth considering (record when playing at home, record when playing away, record at
certain grounds/stadiums/arenas/venues etc)
How you can complete the task:
• Any sport is fine – team sports such as football, netball, volleyball, basketball, swimming are great, but so are
individual sports like tennis, swimming etc.
• Use YouTube, Dailymotion etc to find a suitable video for you to watch someone perform – ideally it should be
around 20mins so that you can collect lots of data/make lots of judgements
• Pick any team to watch – try and write it about an opponent who might face your favourite team, but if you’d rather
you write it about your own/favourite team, that’s fine too!
• Try and find clips of whole games to watch rather than just simply highlights – highlights usually only show the really
good (or really bad!) moments!
• Present the report however you wish – you could write a written report, create a PowerPoint with different slides,
make a detailed and in-depth poster – anything is absolutely fine!
• If you can use pictures, images, diagrams, table, charts etc to support some of the points you are making, great – if
you can use images from the video you are watching then even better!
• Email a member of the PE team if you are unsure or have any questions!
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Your RE Mission….
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
The city of Athens is in urgent need of an investigator with philosophical
credentials. The ship of Theseus been proudly displayed in our harbour for
centuries, but it may have been secretly replaced!
Theseus was a hero of Greek mythology and the supposed founder of
Athens, Theseus is said to have won several naval battles and defeated
several monsters, including the Minotaur. We display his ship to respect REPORTER
and remember.
However, over the centuries the wooden ship has decayed and worn down.
Every time a piece of the original was past its best it was removed and
stored in a museum and replaced with a new, stronger piece.
We are now forced to ask ourselves… If the ship on which Theseus sailed
has been so heavily repaired and nearly every part replaced, is it still the
same ship — and, if not, at what point did it stop being the same ship? Is
the ship in the museum the true one, or the one in the harbour?
Very simply, our question is: does A = B if the physical
parts of A are not the same as B?
Please write urgently to the city of Athens explaining the findings of your investigation. You should
explain which ship is the real ship of Theseus, the one in the harbour or the one in the museum. You
must back up and explain why your answer is correct, as well as justify why the other side is wrong.
Use diagrams and pictures if it helps with your explanation. The best investigators will interview their
friends and family to learn their opinions, so they can make an informed decision.
The sorts of ideas you might expect to hear include:
* Is the ship different the moment the first plank is replaced because any change would result in a
different ship?
* Is the ship different only when the last piece has been replaced because only then is there none of
the original ship left? Does that mean that when there is only one piece of the original ship left it is still
the old ship?
* If it suddenly changed, or if it changes gradually, does this effect your answer?
* If the materials it’s made of change, but the shape, the name and the design stay the same, is it the
same ship?
* It is the same ship if other people think it’s the same ship? Is it just a matter of opinion?
Our sources tell us previous investigators have attempted to solve this with no luck. Below are links to
previous reports that might help you in your intellectual sleuthing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYAoiLhOuao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwVyplU3Pg
Good luck!
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Your SCIENCE Mission….
Plastic pollution poses one of the biggest known
threats to the ocean, influencing all ecosystems from
beautiful coral reefs to abyssal trenches, eventually
accumulating in our own food.
REPORTER
Research, explore and plan how plastic is used and
how this leads to the destruction of the oceans.
You can present your research in the form of:
• A Newspaper Article
• A Blog
• A Podcast
• An Infographic/Poster
Good luck!
Suggested Tasks To Guide You (you should complete at
least 5 of these tasks):
• Use at least 3 different websites (not Wikipedia!) to research the theme
of plastic in the oceans.
• Create a spider diagram of some of the key things you found out from
your research.
• Design a solution to encourage less plastic pollution in the oceans.
• Make sure your research is accurate and makes sense.
• Inform a member of your family or a friend about what you have found
out.
• Research how scientists are creating new solutions for the pollution
problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQTUWK7CM-Y
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/plastic-pollution/
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