15 January 2016
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 19 January.
What is Life?
Our new topic will be ‘Life’:
- How do we know about ‘Life’ in the past?
- How have species changed over time?
- What different types of animals are there?
- How do animals change throughout their life?
- What keeps humans alive?
Explore what you think ‘life’ is. Are there any things that you would argue aren’t experiencing ‘life’ as you understand it? Think about how you can present your views in a creative way.
You could prepare a presentation, create an image, write a story outlining what ‘Life’ is… Enjoy!
15 January 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework focusses on reading comprehensions skills.
To be able to pick out evidence from a text.
Read the text and answer the two questions. Think about how you can make sure that you gain all three marks for each:
- Give three reasons.
- Explain your choices in relation to the question.
- Pick out evidence from the text.
08 January 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 13 January.
I have been assigned three Mathletics tasks.
The children need to log on to Mathletics where they will find that they’ve been assigned three tasks.
- multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000
- dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
- adding capacity
These tasks must be completed by Wednesday and if there are any problems with accessing Mathletics, I need to be told before so that they can be given time in school.
08 January 2016
This week, we also have Practice Makes Perfect homework:
I can find missing angles around a point.
This continues on from maths lessons recently. Children have learnt how to calculate missing angles in a straight line and should should apply this knowledge to the worksheet.
This homework is due on 13 January 2016.
08 January 2016
For all children in Year 1 to Year 6, the homework this week is Talk Time and is due Wednesday 13 January.
Which two charities should we support at school and why?
It’s time for children to think about our next two school charities. In 2014 and 2015, we have supported St Gemma’s Hospice and Cancer Research UK raising a total of £4370.02. We’ve helped these charities for two years now, so it’s time for a change.
We need you to have a discussion at home about which charities would be best for us to support. Following a class discussion next week, each class will nominate two charities to be considered by the School Council, who will make the final decision.
Once your child has decided on two charities, make sure they have clear, powerful reasons to support their views.
You might want to discuss whether we support…
- a local charity
- a national charity
- an international charity
- a children’s charity
- an animal charity
- a charity which helps a vulnerable group in our community
- a charity that has helped our learning, like Heart Research UK, NSPCC, RNLI
Our new school charities will be announced on Friday 15 January.
It’s Christmas…
There are no homework tasks or spellings during the holiday period.
Instead, support your child in other ways. Make sure they take part in family events, encourage them to relax and catch up on some reading at home, encourage them to send thank you notes (emails are fine, too!) – all these things will help their English skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Plenty of maths skills can be practised, too – planning some top telly and considering times and durations of programmes, working out what half price is when the sales start… could your child even help with some cooking to use various measures?
Whatever they do, make sure your child, and you, have a happy and healthy Christmas break.
11 December 2015
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 16 December.
Find a rhyming poem to enjoy with your family.
You could look in a poetry book if you have one, or find one on the internet. Write down the rhyming words in your homework book. Enjoy!
11 December 2015
For our Practice Makes Perfect homework, we’re remembering the work we’ve done on estimating and measuring angles.
To be able to estimate and measure angles.
In homework books there is a sheet showing some angles.
- Name the angles
- Estimate how many degrees they’ll measure
- Use a protractor to measure them
- Compare this with your estimates
This homework is due on Wednesday 16 December. If pupils need to borrow a protractor, they need to pick on up before Wednesday.
11 December 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 16 December.
To be able to show what an angle is.
For a change, we’re being creative with Maths, this week. Show what you know about angles: what are they; where do you see them; what are they called; how do we measure them; and anything else you can think of.
It’s up to you how you demonstrate your knowledge of angles. How creative can you be?
- Take photos of angles around you.
- Make an information leaflet.
- Create a piece of art filled with angles and label them.
- Present your information verbally.
11 December 2015
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 16 December.
I can write a poem about winter / Christmas.
We’ve been learning about and writing haikus in English lessons this week. A haiku is a Japanese poem with three lines. Each line has a certain number of syllables:
- The first has 5 syllables.
- The second line has 7 syllables.
- The third line has 5 syllables.
Here are some examples:
Snowman
Snowman in a field
Listening to the raindrops
Wishing him farewell
Bumble-bee
Why do you bumble?
Are you unsure what to do?
In your stripy suit
No haiku
I’m sorry to say
That I really don’t feel like
A haiku today.