13 March 2015
This week’s homework is talk time. Please make sure your child is ready to talk about this on Wednesday 18 March.
- Is it right that some people are homeless?
- Why might they be homeless?
- How would it feel to be homeless?
Sorting 3D shapes
We explored all things 3D this week and a great way of showing whether you are confident with you edges, faces and vertices is to try sorting shapes.
…or a Carroll diagram. It’s interesting to see how the shapes move around when you change the criteria you’re sorting with.
Can you spot any mistakes we made?
It was quite tricky sometimes, especially when you’re trying to think about four things at once!
Artists once more
After our Katie and… Big Topic, we had a bit of a break from art… but it’s back!
We started off using different types of pencils to sketch Tudor houses. We really tried to capture the dark strips of the buildings and their often wonky shapes.
Then we went very abstract! We looked at Jackson Pollock’s Number 8 which was a great contrast to the real-life sketches we’d created. Using all things bubbly, we created our own bubbly backgrounds for our serious Tudor houses. It was great fun and our finished pieces, when we combined the two, will follow.
13 March 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 18 March.
Choose a time in the past. What have you learnt about it?
Use all your creative juices to show what you have learnt through our Time Travel topic. We’ve travelled from 600BC all the way into the future; meeting the Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and our modern day selves along the way. Choose one of these periods of history and show (in any way you wish) what you have learnt about them.
You could:
- Create a leaflet
- Do a quiz
- Make a house from that time
- Prepare a verbal presentation
- Write a story with characters from that period
- Conduct an interview with somebody from that time…or…
- any other creative idea you might have!
Attendance matters
So far this year, our attendance rate is about the same as last year, which is impressive considering the amount of bugs going around just before Christmas. Here are the attendance figures for the first three half-terms (with last year’s data in brackets):
- Reception: 96.4% (95.7%)
- Year 1: 97.7% (97.1%)
- Year 2: 97.3% (97.9%)
- Year 3: 98.2% (97.5%) …This is great: the highest attendance in school!
- Year 4: 97.0% (96.9%)
- Year 5: 95.7% (98.3%) …Please do make sure your child is at school unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Year 6: 97.2% (96.9%)
- Total for the whole school: 97.1% (97.2%)
Don’t forget we have another 100% attendance competition this half-term! Currently, 175 children have 100% this half-term so far!
Amazing inventions!
There were some fantastic creative homeworks this week. Children were asked to invent something which would make our lives easier. Below are five of the homeworks the children particularly liked this week. A special mention should also go to Ahmed, Jennifer and Ravinder, who produce some amazingly creative digital homeworks.
Brandon’s invention to solve the problem of annoying siblings:
Linda’s brain bending invention:
Sam’s genius spaghetti fork:
Jaskirat’s very useful ipad case and stationery box:
Molly’s maid:
Creative homework
A few samples of this week’s homework which was to respond to a piece of art.
06 March 2015
This week, the words all end in tial. Usually tial is used after a consonant letter but there are some exceptions like initial.
| Group 1 | |
| 1. | confidential |
| 2. | essential |
| 3. | influential |
| 4. | initial |
| 5. | partial |
| 6. | residential |
| 7. | torrential |
| 8. | martial |
| 9. | substantial |
| 10. | potential |
The spellings this week all have the suffix ful.
| Group 2 | |
| 1. | successful |
| 2. | beautiful |
| 3. | cheerful |
| 4. | delightful |
| 5. | painful |
| 6. | peaceful |
| 7. | powerful |
| 8. | skillful |
| 9. | grateful |
| 10. | meaningful |
06 March 2015
I can respond to a book
As it’s recently been World Book Day, please read and talk with your child about their favourite book.
Perhaps they could draw a picture and write about why they like it.
Building the dream
Iggy Peck, Architect inspired Year 1 to become architects themselves today. World Book Day was celebrated with drawings, thoughts, painting and actual building. Iggy Peck built towers out of nappies (dirty ones!) – you will be glad to hear we didn’t do that but we did construct our own structures:
We did some sketches and line drawings:
…and we did some printing:
What a creative day!