14 September 2012
This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect. Your child has either a place value or partitioning maths sheet to complete. It is due in on Wednesday 19 September 2012.
07 September 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 12 September 2012.
I can show something interesting about myself.
It’s the summer
Yes, believe it or not, the summer holidays begin on Friday, despite somewhat autumnal (ok: downright dismal) weather.
During the holidays, research shows that many children’s key skills can regress – this makes rapid progress in the autumn back at school hard. It’s important to make sure your child spends time reading, and try to include daily opportunities to do some writing and number work – things like sending a postcard to someone (look out for our postcard competition – more details soon) and working out some ticket prices and journey times.
As many teachers at Moortown Primary noted in children’s annual reports, your child may need a bit more than this if they need to keep up-to-speed with times tables and spellings – spend just five minutes on each every day to really help your child.
Of course, holidays should be as happy and as healthy as possible, whatever the weather. A useful starting point to planning a few days out or activities in Leeds is Breeze.
Another interesting and familiar idea crossed my mind recently as I read a Sunday paper: the writer and child psychologist Sue Palmer comments: “Every child will make a den given a chance; their evolutionary roots are still very strong. Sitting down watching someone else do it on television is no substitute.” You can buy some exciting kit to support this (I like the Ultimate Dangerous Den Kit, but less so the price), but there’s something even more exciting (and cheaper) by getting creative with cardboard boxes and blankets!
Whatever you and your child get up to, enjoy the break, and see you on Tuesday 04 September (or sometime in the week beginning 17 September if your child is starting in Reception).
Health questionnaire
There will be no further homework this term. However, please support your child to complete the health questionnaire sent home today in order to find out their views on some of our key health issues at school.
Emotional health and obesity are the two targets we are working on in school to further our healthy schools status and the questions, devised last year by the school council, are linked to these areas. These include:
- Are you happy at school?
- What do you enjoy most about playtimes and lunchtimes?
Completed questionnaires to be returned by Monday 16 July.
06 July 2012
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 11 July.
I can show my learning journey this year.
Children have spent the past academic year learning lots and now’s the time to show it. Your child can produce anything that communicates some of their best or favourite learning. The learning can be from one of their topics or from maths, art, science or literacy, or a mixture of lots of subject areas. Your child can decide how to present their homework. Here are some ideas:
- a diagram
- a picture / photographs
- a video
- a report
- a conversation between two people
- a piece of art work
This will be the last piece of homework before the summer holidays.
29 June 2012
This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 04 July 2012.
I know feelings that are involved with change.
You could talk about the change of class teacher next year and the feelings associated with that, and any other significant changes your child has experienced or would like to consider.
22 June 2012
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. There is some information about the seaside that the children have to read. The task is to then answer the questions. It is due in on Wednesday 27 June 2012.
15 June 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It is due in on Wednesday 20 June 2012.
I know how to be safe at the seaside.
It’s the half-term holiday…
…so there’s no homework this week.
18 May 2012
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect: the children have to read the text and answer the questions.
It’s due in on Wednesday 23 May 2012.
