Homework

06 December 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can show what I know and think about something cultural.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact.

We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show what I know about a festival.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort.  This might have been

• the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
• the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
• the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
• the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
• and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script).  Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.

29 November 2019

I know how shadows are formed.

The homework this week is a creative homework. Children are expected to bring in this homework on Friday 6th December for their homework review.

As the homework is creative, you can respond to the statement in any way you like. Here are a few ideas to help you:

• Use the scientific diagram skills you have learnt in class to help you annotate some photographs of shadows. You could take these at home or when you’re out and about.
• Create a cartoon strip of how  shadows are formed.
• Record a time-lapse video of the shadows in your garden over a day.

As always, if you need any help, come and see me before the deadline.

29 November 2019

Homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.

Practice Makes Perfect: I can remember what we’ve learnt in Maths.

This homework recaps what we’ve learnt so far in Maths. Each child has been given two sheets to complete at home. This includes place value, addition and subtraction. This is due in to be reviewed as a class on Thursday 5th December 2019.

29.11.19

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.

I can write sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

During our themed week, the children wrote about themselves and their identity. For homework, their task is to choose a family member and write at least four sentences about them using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

The homework is due on Thursday 5 December.

29 November 2019

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.

I know some scientific and geographical vocabulary.

The children have been given some definitions for words we have been using in class. We would like the children to match each word to the correct definition.

Homework to be returned to school by Thursday 5th December.

Friday 22 November 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: Which charity should our school support?

Next week, a charity will be decided for us to support for the year ahead – for example, when we have a performance, we’ll collect money for this particular charity. What charity does your child think we should support?

You could talk about:

• what a charity is
• why charities are important
• what sort of work they do
• charities that have meaning to your family, to school or the community
• national and international charities and their work

Next week, each class will vote (because in our school we make democratic decisions) for the charity they would like to support to form a shortlist. Then, our recently elected School Council will decide which charity we will support for the next year.

15 November 2019

All week, we’ve learnt about the 4 times table and it’s now your child’s turn to apply this to their homework.

Practice Makes Perfect: The four times table.

Below is a breakdown of what we’ve done in Maths this week and also acts as a guide to your child’s homework. Each child has two sheets in their homework books to complete. They need to choose a fact from the four times table and complete each quadrant of the sheet, accordingly.

They need to choose a calculation.

Complete an array that matches the calculation.

Write a story that matches their calculation.

Use the sentence stems:

1. I have…
2. In each…
3. Altogether I have…

Fill out the fact family for their calculation.

This includes two multiplication facts and two division facts (on the left). If they want a challenge, see if they can complete four more facts with the product at the beginning of the calculation (as shown on the right hand side of the image).

This is due in, and will be reviewed as a class, on Thursday 21st November 2019.

Friday 15 November 2019

Friday 15 November 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 21 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how we can STOP it:

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People

As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.

As the homework is Creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

• Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
• Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
• Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
• Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due in on Thursday 14 November:

I know my address.

This homework links well with our geography topic, Where in the World Am I? 

08 November 2019

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due in on Thursday 14 November.

I know my address.

Our current geography-themed topic is Where in the World am I? and we’d like the children to know what their address is to build up their knowledge of where they live in the world.

In our homework review on Thursday, we’ll discuss when we might need to use our address but also, from a safety point of view, when we shouldn’t give out this personal information.