Friday 20 September 2019
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can start sentences in different ways.
In our recent writing lessons, we’ve been focussing on starting our sentences in different ways. We found some examples in different texts, practised starting sentences in different ways and then applied our learning when writing a setting description based on our class novel: The Nowhere Emporium. For their homework, we would like children to continue their learning by practising writing some sentences that start in different ways. This image shows the learning prompt we’ve been using in school and should help when completing the task.
For a challenge, create a short piece of descriptive writing where the sentence starters are varied. This homework will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review in class and should be completed by Thursday 26 September.
Please remember, this homework should take no longer than 30 minutes.
Times Tables
This week, we will focus on the 4x tables. See the example in your homework book as an example of the kinds of questions asked during our times table test. Children will be tested on Friday 27 September 2019.
20 September 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 26 September.
When is it ok to take a risk?
Our living & learning statement this week is ‘I can take a safe risk’. This homework is all about discussing risks and when it is acceptable to take one. Talk about when risks are safe and unsafe and when we come across risks in our life: at home, online, at school, in the community etc.
If you would like more information about staying safe online, visit our school website: https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/learn-more/online-safety/
13 September 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 19 September.
What have you enjoyed about the first week back at school?
You could talk about:
- the new classroom
- new friends
- new routines (choose lunch, class rewards, choice chips)
- school rules
- the expectations of the teachers/adults in school
- favourite lessons
- new learning
Friday 13 September 2019
This week, our homework is Talk Time: Is it ever OK to take a risk? If so, when?
Our living & learning statement next week is ‘I can take a safe risk’. This homework is all about discussing risks and when it is acceptable to take one. Discuss when risks are safe and unsafe and when we come across risks in our life: at home, online, at school, in the community etc.
If you would like more information about staying safe online, visit our school website: https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/learn-more/online-safety/
Children should be ready to debate the above statement in class as part of our homework review by Thursday 19 September 2019.
Friday 06 September 2019
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: place value.
This week, children have been reading and writing numbers up to 1,000,000 (year 5) and 10,000,000 (year 6). Using the spinner, a pack of playing cards or the random number generator below, children should generate two numbers and say them aloud. Record your results and compare them in your book. You may repeat this several times.
2,766,059 > 386,472
Two million, seven hundred and sixty six thousand and fifty nine is greater than three hundred and eighty six thousand, four hundred and seventy two.
26,504 < 101,087
Twenty six thousand, five hundred and four is less than one hundred and one thousand and eighty seven.
https://www.mathgoodies.com/calculators/random_no_custom
We will review our learning on Friday 12 September 2019. The homework is due in on Thursday 11 September 2019
Times tables
This week, we will focus on the 2, 5 and 10x table with an emphasis on the related facts.
06 September 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 12 September.
What have you enjoyed about our class book, Orion and the Dark?
Talk about:
- the sequence of the story and retell it orally
- your favourite lesson linked to the book
- something that maybe makes you feel a little bit scared and how you might overcome this
- other books it reminds you of
Friday 12 July 2019
This week’s homework is to discuss the learning that has taken place in the photographs below.
Summer holiday competition
Each year, we invite children to enter a competition – last year, we enjoyed reading lots of postcards from around Yorkshire, the UK and the world.
This year, we’d like your child to get creative with a camera! We want our school to be a happy and healthy place to learn – and we want your child to celebrate this by creating the words ‘happy’ (for children up to Year 2) or ‘healthy’ (for children in Year 3 to Year 6) from letters that your child spots in the environment.
Here’s an example of a letter ‘h’ which we’ve found on the internet – somewhere in their surroundings, can your child find the five letters that spell ‘happy’ or the seven letters that spell ‘healthy’?
We found the example above on the internet, but it would be even better if your child were to take pics from real life – perhaps they could find all the images on one day out, or perhaps they set themselves a target of finding one letter every week of the holidays. Your child could spot ‘letters’ near their home or on holiday. They could make the letter shapes from their own body, stretched into different positions, or they could even ask different family members to create the shapes!
There will be four prizes of £15 book tokens – two for the best ‘happy’ words and two for the best ‘healthy’ words.
Please paste the words into a Word document – one side of A4 – and email to school (scholesoffice@spherefederation.org) by Friday 06 September 2019.
Good luck!
12 July 2019
Friday 05 July 2019
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate happy and healthy choices.
This homework links to our weekly living and learning statement and is something we talk about a lot in our school. Can you encourage your child to make a new healthy choice every day this week? Or think about one new healthy change your child can make? Try to help them make sure the choice is a realistic, achievable one, such as avoiding being on an electronic device after a certain time to help sleep, or adding one extra daily portion of vegetables to their diet each day.
As this is a Creative homework, children could respond in a variety of ways:
- Create a blog, video blog or diary to show the changes we’ve made.
- Create a poster convincing others to make a happy and healthy change.
- Make a cartoon strip in which a character makes a happy and healthy change.
- Write a song, poem or rap that will encourage others to make changes.
- Reflect on change they’ve made and how it made them feel.
There are of course lots of other ways to respond, too.
Children should be ready share, and celebrate, their homework in their class by Thursday 11 July 2019.