Author: Mr Catherall

26 April 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate different emotions.

This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to show that they can recognise, and show, different emotions. As humans, we display a huge-range of emotions. Sometimes, it’s obvious how we’re feeling. Sometimes, it’s trickier for us to show, or recognise, an emotion. This statement allows us to spend time thinking about the different emotions we experience and how we can recognise these accurately in ourselves and others.

Children could respond creatively to this in a range of ways:

  • create a piece of art that shows a range of emotions
  • take pictures of themselves (or others) displaying different emotions
  • write a short-story in which a character shows lots of emotions
  • Devise a poem, song or rap about emotions
  • Create a comic strip to illustrate different emotions

Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 02 May 2019.

22 March 2019

This week, we will continue with our previous spelling focus: words with double consonants. These words follow one of our main spelling rules – double up for a short vowel sound. For example, in the word hopping, the double ‘p’ makes us say the short vowel version of the letter ‘o’. Without doubling up, the word would be hoping which has a long vowel sound for the ‘o’.

Children should learn the words below in preparation for a spelling test on Friday 29 March 2019.

opportunity appreciate committee
occur aggressive according
community accompany

 

22 March 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: I can pay and receive compliments to/from people outside of school.

This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to discuss the benefits of paying compliments to people. Here are some questions that might shape your discussion:

  • How does paying a compliment make you feel?
  • How does receiving a compliment make you feel?
  • Why is it important to be sensible when paying or receiving compliments?
  • Can you compliment people too much?

Children should be ready to discuss what they’ve talked about at home by Thursday 28 March 2019. It would be even better if children were able to talk confidently about times when they have given, or received, a compliment.

Please note: If you would like to send homework to us by email (Which we love by the way!) we have a new email address specifically for receiving homework. Please send all emailed homework to these addresses in the future.

Y5scholeshomework@spherefederation.org

Y6scholeshomework@spherefederation.org

15 March 2019

Our homework this week is Creative: I can show my talents.

All of the children in our school are blessed with an array of talents. This week, our homework, which links to our living and learning statement (I can recognise my talents), gives our opportunity to celebrate and share their talents. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their talents to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:

  • create a short performance to show to their class
  • film themselves showing off their talent
  • make a collage of their many talents
  • produce a piece of art to show off their talents

There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond. Children should be ready to show off their talents by Thursday 21 March 2019.

Guilty!

Yesterday, 3 little pigs attended Scholes Primary School Court charged with the murder of Mr B.B Wolf.

The three pigs defend themselves.

After days of speculation, the accused were finally forced to defend themselves in a ‘court of law’. The room, usually a classroom, was changed into a court where many people (including lawyers, witnesses, jurors, media representatives) crammed in to see the 3 pigs defend themselves.

After a heated courtroom debate, and a short deliberation from the jury, two of the pigs were found guilty. Interestingly, the youngest pig was deemed to have been coerced into killing the wolf and was left to walk free. One of the jurors declared: “It was clear for all to see that the oldest pig was the scheming mastermind behind this terrible chain of events. I hope he learns from his time at her majesty’s pleasure!”

More news to follow.

Ask your child what their role in court was.

Challenge your child by asking them what features of a news report they can spot in this post.

For an extra challenge, ask them to identify where the passive voice has been used in this post.

Friday 01 March 2019

I before e is one of the most common spelling rules we hear. However, it doesn’t always work. In fact, “I before e, except after c when the sound is ee” is much more accurate – of course, there are exceptions to this rule: either, weird, their. In fact, sometimes, ‘I’ and ‘e’ are just adjacent. To help them learn (and remember) this rule, children should learn the following words in preparation for a test on Friday 08 March 2019.

foreign

 

 achieve convenience
mischievous

 

 soldier sufficient
variety ancient  

 

Friday 01 March 2019

This week, our whole school homework is Creative: I can present a summary of our class novel so far.

Every class in our school is currently enjoying their class novel topic. As such, we’ve read quite a bit of our books. This week, children should summarise what they’ve read so far. A good summary would give an overview of what’s happened, focussing on key events and characters. There are many ways in which children could choose to respond to this but here’s a few ideas…

  • use an app to create a movie trailer for what’s happened so far
  • create a timeline of key events
  • turn what’s happened so far into a short comic
  • write a song, rap or poem about one of the main characters/events
  • create an image about a key event
  • draw a portrait of a main character and label their characteristics

However children decide to respond, their efforts will be celebrated as part of our weekly homework review in class. This homework is due by Thursday 07 March 2019.

Year 5 game-makers

In our reading sessions this week, Y5 have practised their skills by creating there own board game.

Each day, we practised a different reading skill.

Before creating our own questions for our board game.

Today, we enjoyed playing our games (and practising our reading skills, too).

Here’s our reviews…

I really liked playing out board game especially the fact finding questions.

I enjoyed creating our board game because I’ve never done it before.

I really enjoyed playing this board game because it helps with our social skills and our teamwork as well as our reading.

I liked this week because we got to make our own questions.

Amazing homework

This week, we had some amazing responses to our Creative homework: I can plan a short story.

We really celebrated each other’s effort and left lots of positive comments in our homework books.

There were too many great pieces to show them all but here’s a few of our favourites…

A brilliant film trailer about Marvin the Meatball

Another awesome iMovie film trailer

A highly creative plant based story plan

A pair of well thought out, well presented story maps

A scenic opening paragraph

And, a blast from the past

We shared our views on this week’s homework, too:

I enjoyed planning my story. I can’t wait to write it now!

It was fun trying to think of a way to make planning a story more creative.

I like it when people at home help me.

I tried harder than I normally do this week and I feel really proud of myself.

I didn’t really spend much time on my homework this week but now I’ve seen how creative people have been I will definitely try harder next week.