Homework

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.

01 December 2017

The homework this week is talk time and relates to our Living and Learning statement:

I respect myself and others.

Children should discuss this statement at home and relate to their lives in and out of school.

01 December 2017

The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and relates to the money learning we’ve been doing.

Your child has either a worksheet of questions or a challenge to work through. Although they might be able to complete the homework independently, it would be better if they could talk it through with an adult as they are doing it.

01 December 2017

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on 07 December.

I can show when I might need to convert measures.

We’ve been recapping converting measures (m to cm, kg to g, hours to minutes) and there are a lot of children who are not confident enough with this life skill.

There are so many situations where we need to be able to convert measures in real life and this homework is all about exploring what these situations are and, ideally, practising some converting at the same time.

You could:

• take photos of you in situations which require measure conversions
• create a quiz of real life conversion scenarios
• create a resource we could have in the classroom to remind us of how to convert measures

01 December 2017

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 07 December:

I can show my understanding of instructions.

Your task is to write a set of instructions for a recipe, just like we’ve done in class. You need to include:

• a catchy title
• an introduction
• a list of what’s needed
• a method
• a top tip

If you need any help, come in and see us before the due date!

We’re practising all the times tables we’ve covered so far this year:  3, 4 and 8 times tables.  Make sure to reiterate division facts, too.

For example, if we know 5 x 8 = 40, we should know 8 x 5 = 40, 40 ÷ 5 = 8 and 40 ÷ 8 = 5.

24 November 2017

For all children in Year 1 – Year 6, the homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 30 November.

Following our whole school themed week this week, Who do you think you are?, children should consider the following statement by showing what they have learnt.

I know what community is.

As a guide, children could think about these aspects.

• What is community?
• Where is their community? Children could consider their school community to local community to wider community.  Moortown Community Group has lots of information about our local community.
• Who is in their community?  Children could consider visits/visitors during our themed week.
• Why is community important? Children could consider the terms ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ discussed during our themed week.
• How can we be a good citizen in our community?

This could be done in any creative way.

• A story
• A poem
• A map
• A comic strip
• An advert
• An interview
• A game
• A model

…or any other creative ideas!

17 November 2017

For all children in Year 1 to Year 6, the homework this week is Talk Time and will be discussed in class on Thursday 23 November:

Which charity should our school support?

Next week, we will focus on identity, diversity and community in our Who do you think you are? themed week.  As part of this week, children will think about our school charity.  Currently, we support Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Leeds Mind.  A previous School Council selected these because they wanted to help people, support a mental health charity and wanted to help local and regional charities.  They were chosen because pupils passed on to School Councillors very clear and strong arguments.

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 charity would be best for us to support. We will now support one charity for one year.  Each class will discuss this and then the councillors will bring the views and ideas together to decide on the charities.

Once your child has decided on a charity, make sure they have clear, powerful reasons to support their views.

You might want to discuss whether we support…

• a local charity
• a children’s charity
• a charity which helps a vulnerable group in our community

10 November 2017

The homework this week is creative.

I can describe a newly discovered land.

To tie in with our big topic, this homework asks children to describe a new land that they have discovered. Children could find a photo or illustration and then describe it. Or, they could draw and describe their own.

In writing lessons this week, we’ve been thinking about the different senses (see, hear, smell, taste, feel) to describe settings. Children should consider these when they are describing their setting.