Homework

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.

10 November 2017

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 16 November:

I can read a text and answer question.

Children been given a text and list of questions which will require fact finding and comprehension skills to complete. If there are any questions, children should come and see us for help before the date it’s due in – we like helping!

We’re practising our 8 times tables this week.

This is a new times table for most, so your child should focus on becoming familiar with their eights. It may take some time to learn a new times table, but as long as the practice is little and often, they’re sure to get it in no time. 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.

10 November 2017

Homework this week  is Creative: I can reflect on our Explorers topic.

Sadly, we’re coming to the end of our big topic: Explorers. For their homework, I would like children to reflect on all the great learning we’ve done in this topic.

We discussed this as a class and came up with lots of ideas:

• create a poster about the learning you enjoyed the most
• make a PowerPoint summarising our learning
• create a diamond 9 of the skills we used
• film yourself exploring your local area and commenting on the physical and human geographical features
• create a Scratch project that could be used as a revision tool
• make your own wildlife documentary

03 November 2017

This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Thursday 09 November.

I can show my understanding of addition and subtraction.

Over the last few weeks, children have added and subtracted 3 digit and 3 digit numbers. They have used number lines, base ten, bar models and place value grids to help them. We have also used column addition or subtraction as a formal written method. Now, we would like children to demonstrate what they have learnt over these last few weeks.

Here are some ideas we had in class:

• teach someone how to add or subtract and record how you did so
• make a board game about adding or subtracting
• write a poem, rap or story about the calculations
• make a quiz to test others (maybe on Kahoot like we’ve used in class)
• show the skills you need in order to solve maths problems

We’ll be practising our 3 and 4 times tables next week.