Year 5 & 6 Homework

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 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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Friday 28 June 2019

This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I know my lines and/or the song lyrics for the production.

Our end of year production is not too far away now so all children should make sure they know their lines (and the lines before) and the song lyrics.

14 June 2019