Homework

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.

Friday 4 October 2019

Friday 4 October 2019

This week, the whole school has a moral Talk Time homework and should be handed in on Thursday 10 October 2019. In Year 3/4, the moral homework is linked to our DT topic. We would like you to discuss:

 ‘Should we chop down trees?’

Can you imagine that Hetchell Woods, in Leeds, is going to be chopped down (felled), cleared and a new shopping centre is being built to replace it.

• What do you think?
• Have you ever been to the woods?
• How do you feel about the whole forest being removed and replaced by shops?
• What’s the effect of chopping trees down?
• Why do we need trees?

Friday 04 October 2019

This week, our homework is Talk Time: Should children be encouraged to take part in eSports.

Recently, two British teenagers we incredibly successful at an e Sports Gaming World Cup – a sixteen year old won £2.6 million. The enormous prize money has made some people question whether children should be encouraged to get involved in eSports.

The prize money earnt at the competition raised a few issues: whether rewarding children with enormous cash sums is right; the fact that, to be a world champion at eSports, you have to spend a lot of time practising – time spent sitting still, not doing physical exercise; the definition of sport, and whether eSports is a real sport.

However, one thing we know for sure is that eSports is becoming hugely popular worldwide. It now has a regular audience of around 300 million people. In total, fans spend 6.6 billion hours a year watching eSports – up from 1.3 billion hours in 2012. There’s big money in it, too. It is predicted that eSports will generate £1 billion worldwide by 2020, thanks to sponsorship, advertising and broadcast deals. But the eSports audience is quite narrow. Industry experts reckon that around 60% of American eSports viewers are young, aged 18-34. Traditional sports, such as football or rugby, tend to have a much wider age range of fans. The International Olympic Committee has already met to discuss introducing eSports to the Olympics. They decided against doing it for now but have not ruled it out for the future.

Is eSports a positive, sociable, fun activity that kids should be encouraged to get involved in?

Or, do they do more harm than good for youngsters?

Children should discuss this question at home with an adult and be ready to debate this during our homework review by Thursday 09 October 2019.

04 October 2019

This week’s whole school homework is moral themed and is a Talk Time homework. It is due in next Thursday, 10 October.

Wild and free or safe and caged?

Talk about the morals, ethics and purpose of how people use and treat animals. For example:

• Should we cage animals?
• Is it right and how do you feel about animal experimentation for medical or beauty purposes?
• Should animals be used for entertainment?
• Should any animal be allowed to be kept as a pet?
• Should we breed animals for food or fur?

Please email any digital homework (photo, video, audio files) to : Y1scholeshomework@spherefederation.org or Y2scholeshomework@spherefederation.org

Friday 27 September 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can see maths all around me.

Maths is all around us. But, how often do we appreciate this? This homework is all about spotting maths in our everyday lives and we’re exposed to it more than we realise sometimes. We’d like to children to find some examples of maths from their everyday lives and show these creatively. There are many examples of maths in the world around us but here are a few examples:

• travel, TV or film timetables
• measuring ingredients
• finding examples of shapes in buildings
• counting out objects
• spending money when shopping
• distances on road signs
• %s in sales
• cutting food into the correct amount of slices or pieces

Children should be ready to celebrate their learning in our weekly homework review in class by Thursday 03 October 2019.

Please note: this homework should take no longer than 30 minutes.

Friday 20 September 2019

This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 26 September.

This week, our Living and Learning statement is ‘I can take safe risks’. At school, we have been discussing when and where we take risks. For homework, we would like you to discuss risks, safe and unsafe, and where we might take them outside of school. This might be online, at home, at clubs, or in the community.