08 January 2016
For all children in Year 1 to Year 6, the homework this week is Talk Time and is due Wednesday 13 January.
Which two charities should we support at school and why?
It’s time for children to think about our next two school charities. In 2014 and 2015, we have supported St Gemma’s Hospice and Cancer Research UK raising a total of £4370.02. 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 charities would be best for us to support. Following a class discussion next week, each class will nominate two charities to be considered by the School Council, who will make the final decision.
Once your child has decided on two charities, make sure they have clear, powerful reasons to support their views.
You might want to discuss whether we support…
- a local charity
- a national charity
- an international charity
- a children’s charity
- an animal charity
- a charity which helps a vulnerable group in our community
- a charity that has helped our learning, like Heart Research UK, NSPCC, RNLI
Our new school charities will be announced on Friday 15 January.
It’s Christmas…
There are no homework tasks or spellings during the holiday period.
Instead, support your child in other ways. Make sure they take part in family events, encourage them to relax and catch up on some reading at home, encourage them to send thank you notes (emails are fine, too!) – all these things will help their English skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Plenty of maths skills can be practised, too – planning some top telly and considering times and durations of programmes, working out what half price is when the sales start… could your child even help with some cooking to use various measures?
Whatever they do, make sure your child, and you, have a happy and healthy Christmas break.
11 December 2015
For our Practice Makes Perfect homework, we’re remembering the work we’ve done on estimating and measuring angles.
To be able to estimate and measure angles.
In homework books there is a sheet showing some angles.
- Name the angles
- Estimate how many degrees they’ll measure
- Use a protractor to measure them
- Compare this with your estimates
This homework is due on Wednesday 16 December. If pupils need to borrow a protractor, they need to pick on up before Wednesday.
11 December 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 16 December.
To be able to show what an angle is.
For a change, we’re being creative with Maths, this week. Show what you know about angles: what are they; where do you see them; what are they called; how do we measure them; and anything else you can think of.
It’s up to you how you demonstrate your knowledge of angles. How creative can you be?
- Take photos of angles around you.
- Make an information leaflet.
- Create a piece of art filled with angles and label them.
- Present your information verbally.
04 December 2015
For Practice Makes Perfect, we’re returning to Mathletics. All of the children have been assigned three tasks related to time.
- What time will it be?
- Elapsed time.
- Using timetables.
This homework is due on Wednesday 09 December. If there is any reason that this homework cannot be completed at home, please let me know on Monday (before the homework is due).
04 December 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Wednesday 09 December.
To reflect on our topic, ‘Mission to Space’.
As Tim Peake’s launch draws closer, the end of ‘Mission to Space’ does, too. Over dinner, in the car, on your way to and from school, have discussions about the topic.
- Have you enjoyed it? Why?
- What new things have you learnt?
- Is there anything you’d still like to find out?
- What’s been the best thing about it?
- How could it have been improved?
Remember to write yourself some short notes to help with our discussion in class.
27 November 2015
Following our Health themed week, this week, our whole school homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 02 December.
I make healthy choices.
Each class has taken part in a variety of learning this week including a range of visitors to support our teaching of keeping healthy (please see our Class News pages).
Your child could present this creative homework in a variety of different ways:
- a quiz which tests the knowledge of other children
- art work
- poetry
- a poster
- writing: diary, story, letter, instructions, report
- a rap
- a mindmap
- your own creative idea
We look forward to seeing your creative ideas to demonstrate how to keep healthy and this homework will be the focus of our open afternoon, next week.
Homework open afternoon, 2.40pm on Wednesday 02 December – parents/carers of children in Years 1 – 6 are invited into the classroom to help you to be aware of the standards of homework in your child’s class; it will also give you an insight into how we give feedback to your child even if the homework does not appear to be marked.
20 November 2015
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect is due on Wednesday 25 November.
I can use homophones correctly in a sentence.
One of the things we’re finding tricky in Year 5 is to recognise which spelling we need when a word is a homophone.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. Write 10 sentences using homophones. There are lots to practise from our spellings last week but everybody needs to practise ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ as we make mistakes with these a lot.
20 November 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 25 November.
Should children play outside or play with technology?
Choose one side of the argument to debate.
Be prepared to have a class debate on this topic. Choose one side of the argument to debate but don’t forget to consider both sides so that you can counter the other team’s points.
Use the sentence openers to organise your ideas and create counter arguments for our debate.
13 November 2015
Practice Makes Perfect is all about multiplication and is due on Wednesday 15 November.
To be able to use column multiplication.
We’ve been sent a very important secret message from the ISS for Tim Peake. It’s our mission to solve this and respond to it. Use your column multiplication skills to decode what they’ve said. There might be some slightly trickier calculations thrown in for you to use what you know in order to crack these too.