28 February 2020
This week, our homework is Creative and is helping us to celebrate World Book Day next week.
I can show what I love about reading.
Children could come up with their own ideas for how to show this, or ideas might include:
- create a labelled diagram of the perfect place to read in
- write a book review
- draw and label/describe a character from your favourite book
- write a letter to an author telling them how much you loved reading their book
- write a one minute speech on your favourite book, persuading others to read it – consider what the most exciting parts are, which characters you love or you love to hate, who might enjoy reading it next and why
Be as creative as you like.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review on World Book Day itself, 5 March 2020.
07 February 2020
This week, the whole school has the same creative homework, which is due in on Thursday 13 February 2020.
I can show different ways to stay safe, including online.
This week, linked to our Living & Learning, we have been thinking about how to make safe choices, including online. There are many ways, and many different situations, in which we need to keep safe: at home, at school, in our environment and online.
Children should think about the situations where they need to keep safe and who might help them to stay safe. This could be done in any creative way:
- A story
- A poem
- Instructions
- A comic strip
- An advert
- An interview
- A game
- Scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
The homework will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.
31 January 2020
This weeks’ homework is: I know our current science vocabulary.
In order to continue our science learning, the children are to complete the crossword which they have stuck into their homework books today.
This is due to be completed by Thursday 6th February ready for our Homework Review.
Good luck!
24 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: What is a drug?
This homework, which links to our Living and Learning statement, is a first step in children becoming aware of drugs. There are a few key points you may wish to talk about at home. Children need to be aware that some drugs are helpful, some are harmful, some are legal, some are illegal. Don’t forget to consider that even the legal or helpful ones can be harmful.
Below are some question prompts that could help shape your discussion…
- What is a good definition for a drug?
- What is a drug? What is not a drug?
- Are all drugs bad?
- Why might some people need to take medicines?
- Who can prescribe medicine?
- Who should administer medicine?
- What should you do if you find some medicine?
- Should you take medicine that isn’t yours?
Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve talked about at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Thursday 30 January.
17 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework:
I can show different ways to make things better.
This homework, which is due on Thursday 24 January, is an opportunity for children to reflect on our living & learning statement for this week: I can make things better.
Children should think about ways to make things better in a variety of different situations and contexts:
- in class
- in a friendship group
- at playtimes
- at home
- with siblings
- out and about (countryside, park)
- the wider environment (recycling)
You could consider…
- Why should we try and make things better?
- How do we do this?
- When should we apologise?
- What is the effect it has on others around us when we make things better?
- Older children might want to consider the benefits of restorative justice.
Don’t forget to be creative! Produce a report or diary; capture photos of making things better; create rules for better games at play times; make a poster about how to say sorry; or, think of your own creative response.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review.
11 January 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 16 January.
I can learn my Computing vocabulary.
Children have been given some definitions of our focus words for this half term. They need to read it, discuss with someone and complete the activity at the bottom.
13 December 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Friday 20th December.
I can talk about what I was learning in these photos.
Below are some photographs from learning that we have done this term. Ask your children what the children in the photograph are doing, what they learned from this lesson and what more they might like to learn or get better at in this area of learning.
This is a fantastic opportunity to find out more about your child’s learning and experiences at school. If you enjoyed this discussion, Check Year 5’s Class News section of the website where photographs are regularly uploaded!
Geography – Moortown Park
Living and Learning
Drama in Writing
Geography
06 December 2019
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.
The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a 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 may 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, coming up
There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.
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.
29 November 2019
I know how shadows are formed.
The homework this week is a creative homework. Children are expected to bring in this homework on Friday 6th December for their homework review.
As the homework is creative, you can respond to the statement in any way you like. Here are a few ideas to help you:
- Use the scientific diagram skills you have learnt in class to help you annotate some photographs of shadows. You could take these at home or when you’re out and about.
- Create a cartoon strip of how shadows are formed.
- Record a time-lapse video of the shadows in your garden over a day.
As always, if you need any help, come and see me before the deadline.
Friday 22 November 2019
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: Which charity should our school support?
Next week, a charity will be decided for us to support for the year ahead – for example, when we have a performance, we’ll collect money for this particular charity. What charity does your child think we should support?
You could talk about:
- what a charity is
- why charities are important
- what sort of work they do
- charities that have meaning to your family, to school or the community
- national and international charities and their work
Next week, each class will vote (because in our school we make democratic decisions) for the charity they would like to support to form a shortlist. Then, our recently elected School Council will decide which charity we will support for the next year.
