12 January 2018
This week, our homework is Talk Time:
True or false? Drugs are bad for you.
This, on the surface, may seem like a simple question with a simple answer. However, when you discuss this with your child, you may realise that this question is a great catalyst for a discussion on the merits of some drugs (medicines etc) and also the dangers associated with these drugs, and others.
We’ll talk about this during our homework review and our ‘Living and Learning’ sessions next week.
12 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and links to the learning we’ve being doing in our grammar lessons this week.
- Can I identify determiners?
- Do I know what an active and passive sentence is?
The children have got some practice questions to have a go at independently which we’ll then go through together in our homework review next week on Thursday 18 January.
12 January 2018
The homework this week is creative.
I know the different parts of my body.
We’re starting Life Forces, our new big topic, next week. We’ll first be learning about ourselves. In this homework, show us what you know about humans and our bodies. As always, it’s up to you how you present your homework. It could be a poster, a model, a collage, a video. It’s up to you!
05 January 2017
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect. It is to learn your lines for our class assembly on Wednesday. We don’t have much time to practise before the show so please work hard to learn them by heart.
Hope to see you there at 2.40!
05 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 11 January:
I can describe my ideal imaginary friend.
Your task is to write a description of your dream imaginary friend, inspired by our current class picture book, Imaginary Fred. Our ideas in class were to describe:
- their personality
- their appearance
- their hobbies
- how they act
- what they might wear
You could make your description interesting by using:
- varied punctuation
- exciting vocabulary
- conjunctions
- different sentence openers
- varied sentence lengths
If you need any help, come in and see us before the due date!
05 January 2018
Our homework this week is Creative:
I can show how materials are used in the world around me.
As we are currently completing our mini-topic (What’s the Matter?), I would like children to think about how different materials are used and, most importantly, why they are used in the world around us.
There are many ways children could respond – here are just a few:
- take pictures of materials in action and explain why that material is used
- find unusual examples of materials used in everyday life
- create a video diary entry of all the different materials they have come across in that day
Homework should be completed, and returned to school, by Thursday 11 January 2018.
05 January 2018
The homework this week is Talk Time.
How can you show good manners in school and at home?
Please return your homework books the following Thursday.
05 January 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 11 January.
Each child has either a number of decimal calculations to solve independently or a problem sheet in the context of length and swimming.
08 December 2017
The homework this week is creative and should be returned to class by Thursday 14 December.
The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or 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 will 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 which next year will be in February
There are lots of other festivals and celebrations which you and your child together might want to reflect on. You can research more festivals.
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.
01 December 2017
Y5’s homework this week is Talk Time: I know what to do in the event of a fire.
This week, we were visited by the Fire Service (see our class news section) who taught us all about fire safety. During the visit, they strongly advised everyone to have a Fire Action Plan – a plan for what to do in the event of a fire. Children should discuss this with others at home and be ready to share their plan with the class during our weekly homework review. This homework should be completed by Thursday 07 December 2017.