Homework

Friday 22 November 2019

This week, we will be focussing on words ending in the suffixes –ible or –able. As a general rule, although there are some exceptions which we’ll explore in our spelling sessions, we add –able when you are able to do it eg. breakable means you are able to break it. When there is no clear root word, we add –ible. This week, we’d like children to practise spelling the words below in preparation for a test on Friday 29 November 2019.

Friday 22 November 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: Which charity should our school support?

Next week, a charity will be decided for us to support for the year ahead – for example, when we have a performance, we’ll collect money for this particular charity. What charity does your child think we should support?

You could talk about:

• what a charity is
• why charities are important
• what sort of work they do
• charities that have meaning to your family, to school or the community
• national and international charities and their work

Next week, each class will vote (because in our school we make democratic decisions) for the charity they would like to support to form a shortlist. Then, our recently elected School Council will decide which charity we will support for the next year.

Friday 15 November 2019

Friday 15 November 2019

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 21 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 we can 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.

Friday 08 November 2019

Friday 08 November 2019

This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can use expanded noun phrase.

In our recent writing lessons, we’ve been learning loads about expanded noun phrases and how to use them. An expanded noun phrase gives more detail or information about a noun. An expanded noun phrase has a determiner (like ‘his’), an adjective (like ‘green’) and a noun (like ‘eyes) – his green eyes. In the sentence below, the expanded noun phrase is underlined.

The angry, little elf stomped furiously out onto the ice.

For their homework, children should practice using the adjectives below (and their own ideas) to create their own expanded noun phrases.

This homework should be completed and returned by Thursday 14 November.

Friday 08 November 2019

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and due in on Thursday 14^th November.

 We have been working on addition and subtraction using column method. Copy the calculation into a column and complete in your books. Always check your answers for accuracy.

Y3 – e.g.130 + 56 =

4. 327 + 51 =           213 + 62 =         3. 802 + 92 =
5. 572 + 213 =          5.  371 + 229         6. 478 + 121 =

Y4 – e.g.1130 + 5266 =

4. 3327 + 2451 =            7243 + 962 =           3. 832 + 5192 =
5. 1872 + 3213 =        5.  4781 + 229 =           6. 4278 + 1921 =

Check the sheets for extra challenges. Make some of your own addition question calculations.

Times tables –

Recap on the times tables from previous learning.

Year 3 – 3 x tables and divisions. Year 4 – 6 x tables and divisions.

Fill in your times tables grid in your homework book to help you learn these.

08 November 2019

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.

Learning number facts is an important part of developing maths fluency. This week’s homework is for children to learn all the bonds of 10 (pairs of numbers that make 10 when added together), so they can recall them instantly, including in missing number sentences. Y2s should also learn all bonds of 20. There are some examples of how to learn them below.

Friday 18 October 2019

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and due on Thursday 24 October 2019.

We have been learning how to use adverbs in our writing to add more detail.

Adverbs add description to the verb in the sentence; they can add more information about how, when or where.

We would like you to add adverbs to the 5 following sentences to create a better, more improved sentence with the use of an adverb. Choose adverbs from the list, or use some of your own.

Think about where the adverb would fit best into the sentence. Remember to use a comma if you add an adverb to the front of a sentence.

Here are some examples:

e.g. The birds chirped.

• The birds chirped peacefully. (how)
• The birds chirped in the branches. (where)
• At dawn, the birds chirped. (when)
• In the morning, the birds chirped happily. (when and how)

1. A player shot into an open goal.

2. The princess cried because she was lost.

3. James coughed to attract attention.

4. She spoke to the child.

5. Mum ate the chocolate.

18 October 2019

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.

Friday 18 October 2019

This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can use brackets to show parenthesis.

Recently, during our writing lessons, we’ve been learning to use brackets to show parenthesis. Parenthesis (shown by using brackets, dashes and commas) is extra information that is not essential for the sentence to make sense.

For example, if I was writing, ‘I went to the cinema last night to see a scary film.’

I could add extra information at the end and use brackets to show this.

I went to the cinema last night to see a scary film (Scary Film 3: The Return of the Scare Factor).

The name of the film is not needed but the parenthesis adds extra information.

For their homework this week, children should complete the worksheet they’ve been given – they should be able to do this on their own – by Thursday 24 October 2019.

worksheet:

Add brackets to the sentences below:

1. Ellie my older sister lives in Manchester.
2. Jupiter the largest planet is made of gas.
3. The twins Ben and Billy have just played their first football match.
4. The ambulance which had sirens blaring and lights flashing moved swiftly through the traffic.
5. The student who was new to the school got lost to her first lesson.

Rewrite these sentences adding extra information to the main clause – use brackets to show parenthesis.

1. The monstrous boy howled in the corridor.
2. They walked down the corridor.
3. Edward V. Vinctus was an interesting man.

Times Tables

This week, we will continue to focus on the 7x table. Children should be ready for a test on Thursday  24 October 2019. Here are a few examples of the kinds of questions children could be asked and the type of questions children could be practising in addition to the times table facts:

Friday 11 October 2019

Friday 11 October 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework. In preparation for the upcoming School Council elections, children should complete one of the following tasks:

• I can prepare a speech (School Council elections).
• I know the importance of voting.

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.  With two representatives from each class chosen democratically by their peers, all children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

Elections for our new school council will take place on Thursday 24 October with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready.  Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech in class to their peers.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

• ‘use all the 8 Rs for learning’
• ‘be respectful’
• ‘help others’
• ‘be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)’
• ‘tell the truth’
• ‘be confident with your ideas’
• ‘accept the views of others even if you don’t agree’
• ‘be friendly and approachable’
• ‘make good choices in class and around school’

Hints for your speech include:

• What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
• What are you particularly good at that would help you to be a great school councillor?
• What do you think would make the school better?
• What could you do that people would really like?
• Think of things that are realistic, maybe that you could do yourself, rather than having to ask other people to do.

Thank you to our current school councillors for all their ideas and contributions.  We hope you have enjoyed this role and responsibility.  You’re welcome to stand again for election.

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

If you choose not to stand in the election, you should instead consider the importance of voting.