11 December 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 17 December.
The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.
I can present a review of a book / TV show / film or something else 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 know what a faith celebration means to me.
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.
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 18 December 2020.
03 December 2020
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 10th December 2020.
Times tables
This week, you should focus on revisiting the 4 and 8 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example 8 x 100 or 0.4 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 11th December.
27 November 2020
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.
This half-term, we’ve been historians in our topic lessons and have already learnt lots of Ancient Greece. Part of our topic is learning some key vocabulary. These words help us to learn the knowledge we need and help us to articulate this knowledge better.
For your homework this week, we’d like you to be really confident with what all of these words mean. There’s a few ways you could do this and we’d like you to tackle this homework using a strategy that works for you. If you’re unsure, here’s a few ideas…
- Practise using them in sentences
- Create your own definition for each word
- Create an action or rhyme for each word to help you remember them
- Play ‘classic’ games like taboo, Pictionary or charades using these words
- Ask an adult to test you on your way to school or whilst you’re eating
- Try and use these words in as many sentences as you can over the course of a night, weekend or whole week – you could even turn it into a competition for who can score the most points.
Our email addresses are below:
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
If your child is in 3,4N or 3,4E please send emails to both teachers.
27 November 2020
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.
The words in the table below all relate to Ancient Egypt and the end of the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Use some activities from this sheet to help recall the words and their meaning.
| advances | Moving forward/ making progress in a purposeful way. |
| hunter- gatherer | People who live by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food. |
| civilisation | A settled and stable developed community. |
| hieroglyphics | The formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. |
| empire | A group of countries ruled by a single person. |
| Rosetta Stone | A black stone that has an inscription of hieroglyphics and characters. |
| archaeologist | Someone who looks at ancient sights and objects to learn about the past. |
| Neolithic | The end of the Stone Age when farming was invented. |
| pharaoh | A ruler in Ancient Egypt. |
Times tables
This week, you should focus on revisiting the 9 and 11 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example 9 x 100 or 0.9 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 4th November 2020.
27 November 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Practice Makes Perfect homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 03 December. It is all about our history topic. The vocabulary is linked to the Great Fire of London. Find the words in the wordsearch. Challenge : write each word in a sentence.
- old
- modern
- artefact
- firebreak
- diary
- rebuild
3,4O: Certificates
Well done to everyone this week. We even got a special shout out from Miss Hague in our Zoom assembly (along with 3,4E) to praise us for how sensible and mature we have been this week.
Here are this week’s certificate winners.
For great learning…
Isabelle – you always try super hard and you make our classroom a productive, happy and healthy place to be! Also, you smile all day long – this really helps to keep me happy, too!
For living and learning…
Layla – you contributed loads to our learning about Anti-bullying week. You spoke maturely and honestly. You definitely know what bullying is and how we can help to STOP it.
For Times Table Rockstars…
Jayden – this is the first time we’ve given a certificate for Times Table Rockstars and there was no doubt from anyone about who should receive it. For ages, you’ve been smashing it on TTR and all the hard work is really paying off. Your times table recall is amazing. Welcome to the TTR band!
20.11.20
Times tables
This week, you should focus on revisiting the 12 times table. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example 12 x 50 or 1.2 x 100. There will be a multiplication test on Thursday 26th November.
As the homework books are still not allowed to return to school, please feel free to email any photos, presentations or any other evidence of homework to your class teacher.
marklindsay@spherefederation.org
sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org
benfreeman@spherefederation.org
20 November 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 26 November.
I know how to STOP bullying.
This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how can we STOP it:
- Start
- Telling
- Other
- People
As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:
Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.
As the homework is creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:
- Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
- Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
- Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
- Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.
13 November 2020
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can use Times Tables Rockstars.
As a school, we sign up to Times Tables Rockstars. Many of our children already use this resource to practise their times tables. However, lots of us don’t. We think this is a great way to practise times tables – those children who play it regularly are definitely quicker at recalling times table facts. This week, we’d like you to spend as much time using the website as possible. Can you play everyday? Can you set a target for coins and smash it? Can you challenge other people in a duel?
If you don’t know your child’s login details, please email your child’s class teacher.
Homework should be completed by Thursday 19 November 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class.
Our email addresses are below:
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org
If your child is in 3,4N or 3,4E please send emails to both teachers.