Homework

06 February 2026

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning:

As well as exploring consent generally, consider permission-seeking and permission-giving when online eg getting permission before taking and sharing images of others.

As a parent / carer, you might want to start seeking permission before uploading images of your child online (‘Shall I share this pic, or would you prefer me not to?’ is one way to ask, for example.)

This BBC Newsround clip talks about the importance of online consent.This BBC Bitesize clip talks about digital consent.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time:

This week, our Talk Time is in preparation for Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 10 February. We’ll have a full day of learning based around internet safety. With that in mind, start to think about ways you already keep yourself safe when online.

I can talk about ways to keep myself safe online

Things you might like to consider are:

• Age restrictions – where might you see these and why are these used?
• Digital content – do you know what a digital footprint is?
• Mis information, disinformation and hoaxes – are all things we read true?
• Fake websites and scam emails – are all websites trusted?
• Password safety
• Personal data and keeping it safe online
• Online vs offline behaviour
• Impact on quality of life and having a balance of online and offline activities

Have a conversation with your family and friends about how you already keep yourself safe online. After your conversation, take some time to reflect on yours and others responses. Is there anything that you could change or do differently to help keep yourself even safer online? Is there anything you’d like to know more about?

06.02.26

Here are the spellings for this week. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 13 February.

swimming   raining    watching   cry  cried   empty   emptied   they

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

30 January 2026

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning:

As well as exploring consent generally, consider permission-seeking and permission-giving when online eg getting permission before taking and sharing images of others.

As a parent / carer, you might want to start seeking permission before uploading images of your child online (‘Shall I share this pic, or would you prefer me not to?’ is one way to ask, for example.)

This BBC Newsround clip talks about the importance of online consent.This BBC Bitesize clip talks about digital consent.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time:

This week, our Talk Time homework is reviewing learning from your child’s Living and Learning lessons this half-term. Children in most classes have been learning about our British Values.

These are: Democracy, Respect and Tolerance, Rule of Law and Individual Liberty.

The question that we’d like you to consider with your child is:

Why are British Values important?

Things you might like to consider for each value:

• Democracy – voting, listening, the right to have a voice, leadership, joint decisions
• Respect and tolerance – traditions, culture, awareness, acceptance, religions, respect
• Rule of law – rules, laws, agreements, behaviour, protected rights
• Individual liberty – values, consent, equality, rights, choice, dignity

When discussing these values, it’s often helpful to imagine what life would be like without these values.

23 January 2026

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning:

This is the fourth (and final) ‘British value’ – values that are important in the UK and many countries.

Can you child imagine a country where we didn’t have rules and laws? Can you child link their understanding of the importance of rules and laws with other Living and Learning themes? Look back at previous themes: school rules, protected characteristics, rights and responsibilities…

Older children should check out this BBC video about the rule of law.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time:

This week’s Talk Time is about Science – and we’re looking for signs of the changing seasons. You’re going to be a season detective and your job is to observe how the world changes as winter turns into spring.

Why not try some of the following ideas to observe the changing seasons:

• Look outside each day. What is the weather like? In winter it is often cold, frosty or snowy. As spring arrives, you might notice warmer days, sunshine and more rain.
• Look at plants and trees. In winter many trees have no leaves. In spring, you may see buds, new green leaves and colourful flowers starting to grow.
• Listen carefully when you are outside. In winter it is often quiet. In spring you might hear birds singing, bees buzzing or frogs croaking. These sounds tell us animals are becoming more active.
• Think about how you feel. What clothes do you wear in winter? Do you wear different clothes in spring?

Try to spot these changes happening around you and talk about them with an adult.

16 January 2026

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning:

Here are two more values important in the UK and many countries. Individual liberty relates to freedom. Respect and tolerance are about appreciating differences with other people.

Can you child imagine a country where we didn’t have these values?

Can you child link their understanding of respect and tolerance to the protected characteristics we thought about in the Autumn?

Older children should check out this BBC video about respect.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time:

There’s a moral theme to this week’s Talk Time.

It is a waste of our time learning about the past as it has already happened and we can’t change it.

This is a very topical statement given that we’ve just started our history topic. You may already have an opinion on this but it’s always worth pausing to consider a range of viewpoints.

This week’s R2s will help you to provide a balanced argument before you reach a conclusion:

• What are the reasons for (the pros) learning about the past?
• What are the reasons against (the cons) learning about the past?
• Reach a decision. Is it valuable to learn about past events?
  • One list may have more points than the other.
  • Some points have a greater importance than others.

One way to approach this Talk Time is to have a debate with people in your household. This will not only help you generate ideas but also work on a range of oracy skills. For example,  building on the views of others is a skill that we have practised. When someone raises a point that you’re in agreement with, use one of the following phrases to start your response:

• I agree with you because…
• That’s a good point. I also think that…
• Furthermore, I’ll add that…

On the other hand, you may disagree with a point made by a family member. When that’s the case, it can be hard not to interrupt them. The oracy focus for this half term is turn taking. To be respectful of others’ opinions, wait until a person has finished speaking and then respond using one of these sentence starters or one of your own:

• I hear what you’re saying but…
• That’s a good point. However…
• I take your point but…

09 January 2026

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning:

Democracy is one of four values important in the UK and many countries. We’ve already encountered democracy in the Autumn term when we voted for Junior Leaders.
For younger children, spend time thinking about situations when they’ve voted. Can your child think about a situation at home when voting might be a good idea?
For children In Key Stage 2, Check out this BBC Bitesize session or this BBC clip about democracy.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time:

We are historians in our topic lessons this half term. Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to be around during historic events like the building of the pyramids of Giza in Ancient Egypt? Or the Great Fire of London? Or the end of World War II?

For this week’s Talk Time homework, we’d like you to do exactly that and consider these three questions:

Would it be good to travel back in time?
Would it be good to travel forwards, into the future?
When and where would I go and what would I do?

When talking about travelling back in time, you could use these question prompts to support discussions at home:

• What time period would you travel back to?
  • a time from recent history (eg your lifetime)
  • a point from your parents’/grandparents’ lifetimes
  • over 100 years ago
• Where in the world would you like to be at that point in time?
  • Does it relate to an important historical event?
  • What have you learnt in a current or past history topic that you’d like to experience?
• Who would you like to meet?
  • What historical figures have we learnt about at school?
  • Are there people you’d meet who aren’t famous eg family members?
• Is there anything about the past that you’d try to change?
  • If so, how would you go about it?
  • Would you realistically be able to make that change? Would you need help?

Many of the points above will also help you to discuss travelling into the future. As well as those, it’s important to think of what would be gained from travelling forwards in time. When coming back into the present, would you tell people what the future is like (good and bad things) and why?

These R2s will get you thinking critically about your own ideas:

• What reasons can you think of in support of time travel?
• Are there reasons why you might be against it?

Challenge: Rank your ideas by importance. Imagine you could only do five, or maybe even three things.

12 December 2025

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning: spend a week giving compliments to each other at home each day. Try to make sure the compliments are about what we’ve done and not just how we look – we’ve got more power to change what we do than how we look so these compliments can be much more effective. Some children find it hard to receive compliments, so this week of giving compliments might help, too.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time

This week’s homework has cultural theme.

I can talk about different music.

In music lessons this year, pupils have listened to different pieces of music. We’d like you to listen to two contrasting pieces of music and discuss them.

Here are some questions that could help to structure your discussions:

• How does the piece of music make them feel?
• Do you like the music? Why? Why not?
• What instruments can you hear?
• How does the music change during the piece?
• What is different and what is the same between the two pieces of music?

There is some vocabulary below (we call them musical dimensions) which we introduce to pupils in music lessons across key stage 1 and key stage 2. It would be great if you and your child could try to use some of this vocabulary when discussing the pieces.

Finally, here are some links to pieces of music which you may want to listen to:

05 December 2025

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning: our families and our friendships are all different, so whether your child has a wide group of family and friends or a smaller group of people, encourage your child to reflect on how special they are. Question prompts to help could include who’s important, when has this relationship helped, how is this relationship important.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time

This week’s Talk Time is about Science – and we’re learning to observe shadows in the world around us!

A shadow is formed when a light source is blocked by an object.

Go for a short walk in the evening and observe shadows created by light sources like lampposts, car headlights or security lights.

Use light sources in your house to create shadows or shadow puppets.

Observe your shadow or the shadows of other objects at different times of the day.

Things you may notice are:

1. • How long or short the shadow is.
   • Where the light is coming from (e.g., a lamp, the sun, or a torch).
   • How your shadow changes when you move closer to or farther from the light.
   • If only opaque objects create shadows.

Please be careful not to look directly at light sources as they can damage your eyes.

14 November 2025

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning: this is one of the most important Living and Learning statements. Make sure you and your child talk about our two STOP acronyms:
Definition: Several Times On Purpose
Solution: Start Telling Other People

Beyond this week alone, keep talking about these – one’s a definition of bullying and the other’s a solution.

Talk about the differences between falling out and bullying, and between a one-off situation and something that’s happened more than once.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time

Living and Learning is the focus of this week’s Talk Time.

I know how to STOP bullying.

On Monday, it was Anti-Bullying Day. We’ve placed a strong emphasis on what bullying is and how to stop it.

‘STOP’ is an acronym that provides a clear definition of bullying:

Several Times On Purpose

An example of bullying would be someone saying on multiple occasions that you can’t join in with their game. On the other hand, getting upset/angry in the heat of the moment or accidentally bumping into someone wouldn’t be considered bullying.

‘STOP’ not only tells us what bullying is, but also how to make it stop:

Start Telling Other People.

Our school ethos statement is that our school is a happy and healthy place to learn. School will not be a happy and healthy place if we do not know how to stop bullying.

You could also watch this video with your child which helps us to understand how bullying is a group behaviour and outlines the different roles involved in bullying.

What we’d like you to do in your discussions this week:

• Identify examples of what bullying does and doesn’t look like.
• Ask your child what ‘STOP’ means – encourage them to remember both: Several Times On Purpose and Start Telling Other People.
• Reflect on the video about bullying as a group behaviour and the different roles involved in bullying.

07 November 2025

Our whole-school homework this week is:

Living and Learning: this is the first of two themed weeks in the year. Whilst learning lots of skills in managing money, your child will find out fascinating financial facts.

Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.

Number Fact Fluency: use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.

Talk Time

Living and Learning is the focus of this week’s Talk Time.  At the end of our Me and My Money themed week this is a chance to reflect with your child about aspects of their awareness of understanding all things financial. This could be:

• Why money is an important part of most people’s lives
• Understanding the difference between needs and wants
• Choices about how to save and spend money
• How to keep money safe
• Comparing prices of things to give your child a growing sense of prices and value for money
• Know where money comes from e.g. earning, finding, borrowing, being given

Have a discussion together. Is there anything they are already doing? e.g. they have a bank account and can talk about their understanding of where money comes from.

Can your child show they’re aware of the value of things? Try playing a game online or on a shopping trip: who can estimate the cost of different items? For an extra challenge, can you estimate the total cost of a number of items?