June 8 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and due in on Thursday 14th June.
To design an Egyptian mask. Here are some ideas: –
Think about colour, patterns, symbols and any added extras.
We will be making paper mache masks in school in the next few weeks to recreate our design.
8 June 2018
This week’s homework is Creative.
I can show what I know about crocodiles.
It is up to you but you could:
- draw and label a picture
- research facts on the internet
- create a factfile
17 May 2018
This week’s whole school homework is Creative.
I can design a friendship bench.
School Council would like you to design a friendship bench. We are buying two plain garden benches to be painted and decorated by the School Council.
It may have:
- kind messages or words
- pictures/emojis
- bright inviting colours
- our 8Rs
Use your imagination and get creative!
As you will have seen, School Council have been selling ice pops after school. The money raised will be split between our school charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, and go towards purchasing the friendship benches. During nice weather spells, we’ll continue to run the ice pop stall.
11 May 2018
Year 5 homework is Practise Makes Perfect.
We’d like the children to choose a picture from a book, newspaper, magazine or leaftlet. Write a retrieval, an interpret and a choice question about the chosen picture. Children have had lots of practice answering RIC questions and will be able to explain each type of question to you.
Year 6 homework will be Practice Makes Perfect. As this is the final week before SATs, children can choose pages from their CGP books.
Times tables Practise the 6 times table (up to 12 x 12), including division facts. Don’t forget to check the website for more practise sheets. Record how long it takes you to complete a set. See if you can beat your personal best time.
11 May 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Thursday 17 May.
I can identify sounds that keep us safe.
Having looked at safety as part of our previous topic, electricity, we are now going to consider safety within our new topic, sound.
Keeping safe is sometimes dependent on listening to the sounds around us to alert us to potential dangers that cannot always be seen straight away. How many sounds have you heard or can you think of that are designed to help keep us safe?
Present your findings as creatively as possible. This may be:
- a sound safety poster
- an audio clip of recorded sounds
- a slideshow of photographs showing sources of sounds
11 May 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. A sheet will be stuck in your child’s book.
04 May 2018
This week’s homework is a whole school Talk Time homework.
I can talk about my learning.
Look at the photographs. You could talk about:
- the learning that you see in the photos
- what learning could have happened before
- what learning might happen next
Times tables Practise recalling facts for x7 and ÷7.
Year 6 homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
We’ve given the children four pages in their CGP Maths Revision book (p13, 14, 22, 25) and four in their CGP English Revision book (p42, 43, 49, 50). They need to be completed by Tuesday.
04 May 2018
This week’s homework is a whole school Talk Time homework.
I can talk about my learning.
Look at the photographs. You could talk about:
- the learning that you see in the photos
- what learning could have happened before
- what learning might happen next
27 April 2018
This week’s homework is Creative.
I can show what I know about my favourite toy.
Creative homework involves a creative piece of open-ended work based around an ‘I can…’ statement. As a general guide, your child should stick to just one page of A4. You can draw, write, stick things in or use a computer and print it out – it’s up to you!
27 April 2018
Year 6 homework will be Practice Makes Perfect. We’ve given the children three pages in their CGP Maths Revision book (p44, 45, 46) and three in the CGP English Revision book (p52, 53, 56). They need to be completed by Monday (Maths) and Tuesday (English).
Year 5 homework will be Creative. As part of the Tour de Yorkshire celebrations, each class has been given a bike to decorate a bike. We’d like the children to design a way to decorate their class bike.
Times tables. Practise recalling facts for x8 and ÷8. In addition to any usual tables practice, make a fact family poster.