10 May 2019
This week’s homework is Creative and due on Thursday 16th May 2019.
As part of our new topic, Disasters and the Environment, we would like your child to find out about a global or local disaster. This can be natural or man-made. It may also be a personal disaster that may have affected them .
Children can present findings in the most creative way they can. They may decide to choose one of the following or come up with something completely different. Be creative!
- Poster
- Newspaper report
- Pictures or drawings
- Interview
- Comic strip
- Story
- …or any other creative way your child may think of!
Times tables:
Complete the table division wheels. Division is the inverse of multiplication so use your times table facts to help you.
Living and Learning – I know mental health is important
20 May 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 9th May 2019.
We have been discussing the importance of online safety and creating safe, secure passwords and usernames. We have also talked about different online scenarios, how the children could respond to them and how to get help if they are worried about an issue.
For homework this week, could your child discuss the following questions that link to a moral issue:
Why do we need to keep our passwords secret?
Is it right to keep a secret?
Times tables – Use maths frame MTC website for more practise.
Look at the times tables you have been learning in your year group. Write your own personalised list of the tables you still need to practise.
Do you know the divisions?
Year 3 times tables – 3, 4 and 8 times tables (up to x 12).
Year 4 times tables – 6, 7 and 9 times tables (up to x 12).
26 April 2019
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate different emotions.
This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to show that they can recognise, and show, different emotions. As humans, we display a huge-range of emotions. Sometimes, it’s obvious how we’re feeling. Sometimes, it’s trickier for us to show, or recognise, an emotion. This statement allows us to spend time thinking about the different emotions we experience and how we can recognise these accurately in ourselves and others.
Children could respond creatively to this in a range of ways:
- create a piece of art that shows a range of emotions
- take pictures of themselves (or others) displaying different emotions
- write a short-story in which a character shows lots of emotions
- Devise a poem, song or rap about emotions
- Create a comic strip to illustrate different emotions
Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 02 May 2019.
17 April 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 25th April.
We have started our new mini-topic ‘Seeing’ and would like the children to discuss the following question:
Is sight the most important sense?
Think about:-
- All of our senses – what are they?
- How important are they for us live?
- Why do we need them?
- How would you manage if you didn’t have your sight?
22 March 2019
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: I can pay and receive compliments to/from people outside of school.
This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to discuss the benefits of paying compliments to people. Here are some questions that might shape your discussion:
- How does paying a compliment make you feel?
- How does receiving a compliment make you feel?
- Why is it important to be sensible when paying or receiving compliments?
- Can you compliment people too much?
Children should be ready to discuss what they’ve talked about at home by Thursday 28 March 2019. It would be even better if children were able to talk confidently about times when they have given, or received, a compliment.
Please note: If you would like to send homework to us by email (Which we love by the way!) we have a new email address specifically for receiving homework. Please send all emailed homework to these addresses in the future.
15 March 2019
Our homework this week is Creative: I can show my talents.
All of the children in our school are blessed with an array of talents. This week, our homework, which links to our living and learning statement (I can recognise my talents), gives our opportunity to celebrate and share their talents. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their talents to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:
- create a short performance to show to their class
- film themselves showing off their talent
- make a collage of their many talents
- produce a piece of art to show off their talents
There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond. Children should be ready to show off their talents by Thursday 21 March 2019.
Friday 01 March 2019
This week, our whole school homework is Creative: I can present a summary of our class novel so far.
Every class in our school is currently enjoying their class novel topic. As such, we’ve read quite a bit of our books. This week, children should summarise what they’ve read so far. A good summary would give an overview of what’s happened, focussing on key events and characters. There are many ways in which children could choose to respond to this but here’s a few ideas…
- use an app to create a movie trailer for what’s happened so far
- create a timeline of key events
- turn what’s happened so far into a short comic
- write a song, rap or poem about one of the main characters/events
- create an image about a key event
- draw a portrait of a main character and label their characteristics
However children decide to respond, their efforts will be celebrated as part of our weekly homework review in class. This homework is due by Thursday 07 March 2019.
8 February 2019
Times tables
Year 3 – practise and recap on the 3, 4, 8 times table (up to x 12) see resource sheet for practice.
Year 4 – times tables practise and recap on the 6, 7, 8 times table (up to x 12) see resource sheet.
Work out which of the multiples you know well and those you need to practice. Many children struggle with 7x, 8x, 9x, the multiple. Focus on the challenging ones to make understanding secure.
For example , 7 x 8 = 56 but you could remember it 56.. 7..8, or chant it!
Sometimes listening to rhymes, songs and you tube videos can help to remember times tables.
Friday 08 February 2019
This week, the whole school has the same creative homework which is due in on Thursday 14 February 2019.
I can show different ways to stay safe.
This week, we have enjoyed a staying safe themed week. We’ve had lots of visitors and covered a range of important safety-related topics. There are many ways, and many different situations, in which we need to keep safe: at home, at school, in our environment and online.
Children should think about the situations where they need to keep safe and who might help them to stay safe. This could be done in any creative way:
- a story
- a poem
- instructions
- a comic strip
- an advert
- an interview
- a game
- scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
The homework will be reviewed as part of the themed week learning.