06 July 2018
This week, our whole school homework is creative and should be returned to class by Thursday 12 July.
I can make healthy choices.
This is the chance for children to reflect on our Being Healthy themed week and consider what healthy choices they should make and encourage others to make.
This could be presented in any creative way:
- a game
- a poem
- a song
- a quiz
- a letter
- a comic strip
- a script
- a diary entry from the week
29 June 2018
As part of our Being Healthy themed week, the homework this week is to complete a health diary. The completed diary should be brought back to school on Thursday 05 July to ensure all the entries are made.
The diary covers diet, sleep and physical activity.
Once completed, you should reflect on your diary:
- what surprised you about your diary?
- what were you proud of?
- what could you improve?
- did you make any improvements throughout the week?
- did you manage to achieve your five a day?
- did you have five different portions of fruit and vegetables?
- did you try to reduce your number of snacks and sweetened drinks?
- did you find any alternative healthier snacks and drinks?
Physical activity guidelines state that children should do at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day (30 minutes at school and 30 minutes outside of school). Is this something you have achieved?
Sleep guidelines state how much sleep children should have at different ages. For example, a seven year old should have 10 hours 30 minutes sleep. Sleep is especially important for children as it directly impacts mental and physical development.
We look forward to reviewing the diaries next Thursday in our homework review.
29 June 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and doesn’t really have a specific due date.
Know your lines, what you’re doing and the songs for Bugsy Malone.
We’re fast approaching performance dates for our production, Bugsy Malone. Rehearsals are going well but to improve further we need everybody to know their lines, if they have them; to know when to come on and off; and to know all of the lyrics to the songs.
Here are some links to the songs online so make sure you get them playing and learn the lines, particularly of the ones that are trickier to remember. See whether your child can show you the actions that go with them too.
22 June 2018
The homework this week is practice makes perfect.
I can write and present a shape poem.
In English lessons this week, we’ve written shape poems. For this homework, children should write and present their own poem. Here are some examples of shape poems:
22 June 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 28 June.
I understand how money is made, spent, saved and stored.
As we’ve starting our Enterprise project soon, we’re going to be discussing making money and how money is spent. For this Creative homework, the children could:
- Present different ways people make money – employment, charities, starting businesses
- Investigate where people keep their money
- Think about what they’d like to save their money for – now or in the future
- Give themselves a budget and decide how to spend it
- Go shopping with you can then present how their/your money was spent and why
22 June 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Thursday 28 June:
I can show my understanding of mass, volume and capacity.
In class, we’ve been using a variety of weighing scales (grams and kilograms), using different measuring containers/cylinders (millilitres and litres) and adding, subtracting and comparing mass & volume.
To show their understanding of these topics, your child could:
- investigate the measuring containers you have at home and produce a table of their findings
- do some cooking, weighing ingredients, with an adult/sibling
- make a quiz
- go on an adventure to find all things to do with the topics (film it)
- find containers and estimate their capacity (then check)
- make a game like top trumps
22 June 2018
This week, our homework is Talk Time: I know and understand the importance of telling the truth.
Telling the truth is so important in many aspects of life. Sometimes, it can mean we can solve problems better – especially in a school environment. Children should talk about the statement at home in preparation for a class discussion.
This week the homework is talk time.
I see things from other people’s point of view.
Showing empathy is a really important skill. Children should appreciate that people don’t always have the same opinions and views.
15 June 2018
This week’s home is Practice Makes Perfect.
In class, Year 4 have been writing recounts. Today, we watched a short cartoon about the discovery of a pyramid. The children have been asked to write a diary entry as if they were the person entering the vast tomb.
There are several things to remember when writing a recount. The class will need to remember these and include them in their writing.
Remember, this is not a story!
18 June 2018
This week’s homework is linked to the My Health My School survey the children will be completing soon.
They have a number of aspects of their daily routine to keep track of: having breakfast; snacks and drinks consumed; and exercise taken. The children are going to start their diaries on Saturday 19 June and finish them on Friday 25 June (so homework is not due in until Monday 28 June).
We’ve gone through how to complete the diary and children should ask if they’re not sure through the week.