09 September 2016
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 15 September:
I can make someone feel welcome.
This week, we have started to think about our new SEAL theme, ‘New Beginnings’. Our SEAL statement next week is I can make someone feel welcome and we would like the children to think about how they might do this.
Speak with your child to see what they could do or say to welcome someone, maybe with reference to our three new children in class. This will also help children to develop empathy skills to consider how others may feel in certain situations. As well as the school setting, you might also want to consider other examples such as other groups like brownies, sports clubs, at parties and even visitors to your house.
In our SEAL session next week, we shall be considering this statement through discussion and also drama.
Please see below for talk time guidance in our homework policy:
Talk Time homework: this involves a discussion topic eg ‘Should animals be kept in zoos?’ Children should make notes (even pictures, diagrams etc) ready to participate in a class / group discussion on the topic. Please make sure you write a comment about the Talk Time discussions in the homework books.
Top Tips:
- Turn the telly off!
- Sit around the dining table!
- Have a chat and share opinions and ideas!
- Children should talk with family, friends and each other.
Have a happy and healthy holiday
It’s the summer holidays at last, so there are no homework or spelling activities. Enjoy the holidays instead!
Does your child spend less time outdoors than prison inmates? A survey suggests three-quarters of children do, as the time spent playing in parks, woods and fields has shrunk dramatically due to lack of green spaces, digital technology and parents’ fears.
Research shows that playing outdoors promotes social skills, improves vision, reduces stress, increases attention span and provides vitamin D.
15 July 2016
This week’s creative homework should be returned on Wednesday 20 July.
I can reflect on my time in primary school.
Children should reflect on their time in primary school and respond creatively. They could focus on friends they have made, what they will miss about Moortown Primary, what they have learnt, how they have changed over the course of their time at school, why they are proud to have attended Moortown Primary and anything else they wish to mention.
This is the last piece of homework that children will complete at primary school – make it a good one!
15 July 2016
This week’s whole school homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child/children.
I can share my views about health.
This annual questionnaire helps us to find out pupil views on some of our key health issues at school. Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues.
The questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 20 July.
15 July 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework will be discussed on Wednesday 20 July.
How can Miss Rushbrooke make Year 6 enjoyable, productive and even better than Year 5?
As I have the pleasure of teaching the class again next year, it would be great to have some top tips from the children for what I could do to make their final year at Moortown a great one. I’m hoping for some realistic suggestions about how we can have fun – not just have break all the time! And how I can help them learn even more than they have this year.
- Is there anything in particular you’d like us to learn?
- Has any learning been particularly enjoyable – we could do something similar next year.
- Are there any suggestions for what the classroom should look like or have in it.
- Do you think there are any different ways we could work that would help us to be more productive?
- What have you liked this year that you’d want to continue?
- Is there any thing you haven’t liked this year and you’d like it to stop?
- Could we do more or less of anything?
There is always room for improvement and – I hope the children would agree – I’m always keen to hear how they’d like things to be and will adapt what I’m doing if I think it’s a good idea.
08 July 2016
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 13 July and is an exciting national competition.
Think about how you can present this creatively. We’ll be having a look at everyone’s homework and then we’ll need to decide which one of our class’s homework we want to enter into the competition.
08 July 2016
For our Talk Time homework this week, we’re reflecting on this week’s SEAL sentence.
I can discuss strategies to deal with feelings to do with change.
Think about effective strategies for coping with change and write some notes to help you discuss this in class.
Homework should be returned by 13 July 2016.
08 July 2016
This week’s homework is creative and due on 14 July 2016.
What is multiplication?
This week we have been using problem-solving skills to solve multiplication word problems. To reinforce our learning in class, your child needs to show us what they think multiplication is.
They could:
- write some of their own word problems using their favourite characters from books
- create their own ‘maths challenges’ that could be put on our maths challenge table
- produce their own arrays and explain the multiplication they can interpret
- use images of groups to represent multiplication questions
For example, part of my homework could include this image.
I could says that I can see five groups of four legs and label this image with 4 x 5 = 20. Your child should be able to create more than one multiplication questions for an image like this (four lots of single alpaca, five pairs of eyes).
08 July 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 13 July.
I can learn and recite a poem.
The children have to choose one of the poems in this booklet to learn. They should write it neatly into their homework book and then practise reading it until they can recite it without looking at it.
08 July 2016
The homework for this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 13 July.
Video games are the best kind of games. Discuss.