06 November 2020
Practice makes perfect
This week, the children have been trying to sell useless items such as a rusty wheelbarrow or a rundown car. We’d like the children to choose an ordinary household item and try and sell it using expanded noun phrases, which interest the reader.
An expanded noun phrase uses a determiner, adjective and noun. They can also be expanded using a preposition.
Example:
this vintage, midnight blue classic with a luxurious leather interior
You might choose to write a paragraph, create a poster or even make an advert.
Times tables
This week, you should focus on learning the 7 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 13th November.
06 November 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
Choose a poem. Copy it into your homework book. Try to read the poem every day to learn it by heart. If you want to, you will be able to perform your poem to the class.
Here are some ideas:
16 October 2020
Creative
Last week in our geography topic, we were learning about climate zones and biomes across the world. For your homework, we would you to use your creative brains to create your very own biome! Here are some points to think about:
• What would the climate be like in your biome? Where would your biome be located?
• What animals might live in your biome? Think about the characteristics of the animals you choose, and whether your biome would be appropriate for them.
• What else might be in your biome?
If you need to refresh your knowledge of biomes, click here.
Spellings
Next week, we would like children to continue focusing on adding prefixes to words. Children can practise the list of the words below, in preparation for a test on Thursday 22nd October 2020.
inactive
incapable
impossible
immobile
irresponsible
irrational
illegal
illogical
Times tables
This week, you should focus on revisiting the 8 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 8 x 80 or 0.8 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Thursday 22nd September.
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.
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16 October 2020
This week, our homework links to our Living & Learning statement and is Talk Time: I know that mental health is important.
Increasingly, we hear about the importance of mental health. Talk at home about different ways to help mental health. This might include restricting screen time, getting enough sleep, and taking time – even just five minutes – as a family to relax and recuperate after a busy day.
Homework should be completed by Thursday 22 October 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.
16 October 2020
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 22 October.
As we are reaching the end of the half term, we wanted to use this opportunity to see how much you’ve learned during our Science unit:
I can share what I’ve learned during ‘Living things and their habitats’.
Here a couple of ideas that might help you to get started:
- a poster with animals in one particular habitat or animals in different habitats
- a collage of photographs that you take in some habitats near you
- tell a story about some animals in their habitat on a comic strip
- search for a template online or create your own
- a series of food chains with arrows to show the transfer of energy
Send your work into your class teacher.
09 October 2020
Whole school homework
I can share my views about health
Each year, we ask you to complete a short health questionnaire.
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
Scholes : https://forms.gle/ET9wbcij9QDU8MT77
If you need a paper copy, please request one from your child’s class teacher. The link will be on your child’s Homework page.
Times tables
This week, you should focus on revisiting the 4 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 4 x 100 or 0.4 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 16th October.
09 October 2020
I can share my views about health
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
09 October 2020
I can share my views about health
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
02 October 2020
We’re setting weekly homework as we normally do. The key difference here is that Homework Books should stay at home for the time being. Just as normal, the tasks will be posted on the website. Instead of the task pasted into books, children will take home a piece of paper with the task on, too (like this!). The tasks will be a variety of Talk Time, Practice Makes Perfect and Creative, but especially the first two. Parents can email a picture or update about a completed task (just as you were doing with the home learning tasks we set in Spring and Summer terms). The homework will be reviewed in school, so some pictures would be good!
This week, our homework is Talk Time and has a moral theme. We’d like you to spend some time at home discussing this question: should we treat animals with the same respect we treat humans?
This links well to our new class novel (Here We Are – Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers, you can find a video of it being read aloud on YouTube here) and is an interesting question to discuss. When discussing a moral theme like this, it’s super important to think about both sides of the argument. As part of our homework review next week, we’ll have a debate in class.
Some questions that might help shape your discussion:
- Do you treat humans with respect? How?
- Do you treat animals with respect? How?
- Is it OK to treat humans with more respect?
- Can you say you treat animals with respect if you eat them?
Homework should be completed by Thursday 08 October 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.
Times tables
Next week, Y4 will continue to be learning the 3x table. In Y3, children will be consolidating the 5s – we’re still seeing lots of us who count on our fingers when calculating using the 5 x table. We’d really like you to help consolidate this learning at home. Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 09 October 2020.
This week, we’d like you to use Times Table Rockstars to practise. Your child should have their username and password – if not, please contact your class teacher. You can download the app or use it online – whatever works best for you. We really like TTR. It’s a fun and effective way to learn your times tables and, as teachers, it gives us a really good insight (through it’s data) about where children are at with their times table learning.
02 October 2019
Talk Time
This week, your homework will be a Talk Time. Next week, we are looking at a poem called Matilda Who Told Lies and was Burned to Death. We would like to know if it is ever ok to tell lies?
- Have you ever told a lie for the greater good?
- Has a lie ever meant serious trouble
- How did you feel when someone told you a lie?
Times tables
This week, you should focus on learning the 6 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 9th October.