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
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
23 March 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and to be handed in on Thursday 29 March.
I can show what I have learned about Life Forces.
We would like you to use your creativity to show what you have learned in our Life Forces topic. You can do this in a variety of ways:
- a poster (A4)
- a collage
- sketches and drawings
- lift-the-flap style report
- a recount
- a PowerPoint
- or any other way you wish – be creative!
16 March 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect:
Learn the songs words and speaking parts for the Bee Musical production.
Children have their own copy of the script and song lyrics so that they can be practised and learnt at home ready for the forthcoming performance.
02 March 2018
The homework this week is creative and should be returned Thursday 08 March.
I can create a Top Trump fact file for an animal.
This can be :
- An imaginary creature
- Your favourite animal
- An endangered animal
Use the template provided to create your own Top Trump animal. Use the headings: size, weight, speed, deadliness and weapons and rate the animal out of 100 for each of these. Use the space to write a fact about your animal. If you’d like to produce more information about your chosen animal, then use a page in your homework book.
We’re looking forward to playing Top Trumps next week!
23 February 2018
This week’s whole school homework is Talk Time.
Wild and free or safe and caged?
- 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?
02 February 2018
This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Thursday 07 February.
I can show what I know about e-safety.
This can be done in a variety of ways:
- pictures and diagrams
- comic strips
- a poster
- a poem/ an acrostic poem
We look forward to seeing your creations!
26 January 2018
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 01 February
Word meanings
From a page of our class novel, we’d like children to identify at least five words with unfamiliar meanings. At home, discuss the likely meanings of the words, and talk about the strategies they used to get these meanings. Can your child include the words in conversations at home? (Can you?!)
Children will have a copy of the page in their homework books.
19 January 2018
In school today, we had a visit from the NSPCC. There was a KS1 and a KS2 assembly which promoted awareness about how to stay safe. (Check out the 15 January news article, Pants! The NSPCC safeguarding campaign, for some support at home.)
Next week, our Living and Learning statement of the week is ‘I am aware of risks’.
To support both of these things, this week’s homework task is a whole-school Talk Time homework:
I am aware of risks.
Talk with your child about risks. You might want to talk about:
- risks at home, at school and in lots of other places – can your child consider risks in different situations?
- weighing up risks – some risks (like putting your hand up to answer a question) is a safe risk as the worst that can happen is you might get the answer wrong; other risks are more dangerous – can you think of some more examples of safe and unsafe risks?
- risks to physical health (such as smoking), risks to mental health (such as stress) – can your child think about other examples?
- …and anything else that comes up!
12 January 2018
Homework for the whole school this week is Creative.
I can show what I know and think about something cultural.
We’d like children to present their responses about:
- a recent book they’ve read
- film they’ve watched
- piece of art they’ve looked at
- piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact
We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions.
This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!