15 June 2018
This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect. We have been learning to tell the time this week.
Year 1 have been learning to tell the time to o’clock and half past (on an analogue clock).
Year 2 have been learning to tell the time to 5-minute intervals (on an analogue clock).
Have a look at Class Clock and play some of the games to practice telling times.
08 June 2018
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Thursday 14 June.
This half term, our topic is Honesty. We have talked about the importance of honesty and what honesty means: always telling the truth.
This week’s homework is to show what honesty is. It could be a picture, a drawing, an acrostic poem, a model or even a story showing someone being honest or dishonest.
11 May 2018
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Thursday 17th May.
This half term, our topic is “inventions that changed the world”. So far, we have looked at the telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, and bridges designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous engineer. He built bridges, tunnels, railways, docks and ships. Many of the works Isambard created and designed pushed the boundaries of what people were used to.
Your creative homework is to design a new item for Isambard to build. You can choose to design a bridge, a tunnel, a railway, a steam engine or an invention of your choice. Remember, Isambard pushed the boundaries of what we already know – try to make yours different to the items we already use.
04 May 2018
This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 10 May.
Year 1:
We’ve been looking at place value this week during Maths. We’ve practised our counting skills – forwards and backwards – and looked at how many tens and ones are in two-digit numbers (e.g. 46 can be partitioned into 40 + 6 or 4 tens and 6 ones). Our homework is to practise skills relating to place value.
Year 2:
This week, we’ve recapped and extended our learning about column addition and subtraction. We’ve learned how to carry a ten if our ones column is more than 10 and how to exchange (borrow) a ten if we need to subtract more ones that we have. Our homework is practising both of these skills along with some word problems. Don’t forget, in subtraction you don’t always need to exchange – check your numbers first! Column addition and subtraction is easier if we are confident and quick with our basic number facts – play Hit the Button, number bonds, for some quick recall practice.
27 April 2018
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Thursday 03 May.
This half term, our Christian value is peace. So far, we have looked at how we can show peace and the different symbols for peace.
Design your own symbol of peace. You will be asked to explain how to promotes peace.
Here are some examples of peace symbols that we already see today.
20 April 2018
This week’s homework is a talk time homework and is due on Thursday 26 April.
This half term, our Christian value is Peace. In school, we have looked at the definitions of peace and how we can use peace to impact our own lives and our school life. With an adult or your family, discuss the following question.
If you were Prime Minister, what would you do to promote peace in your country and the world?
23 March 2018
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Thursday 29 March.
I can show what I know about life cycles.
This week, our topic work has been looking at the life cycles of animals in particular frogs. Children can choose a new animal, or use a frog, and display their life cycle. This can 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!
16 March 2018
This week’s homework is a Practice makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 22 March.
This practice makes perfect is maths-based and practises all of our skills we have learned so far this year.
Have a look at Hit the Button to practise maths fluency skills.
09 March 2018
This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 15 March.
For the past two weeks, Year 1 and 2 have been learning about fractions:
- Year 1 have learned about 1/2 and 1/4.
- Year 2 have learned about 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 and 3/4.
These are the definitions we have used for our fractions to help the children understand them. This works for both numbers and shapes.
- 1/2 – one equal part of two
- 1/4 – one equal part of four
- 1/3 – one equal part of three
- 3/4 – three equal parts of four
Have a look in the homework books for your child’s practice makes perfect homework based on our fractions learning this past fortnight.
02 March 2018
Focus: Creative
Today, Friday 02 March, was the Great Big School Clean. So, for homework we’d like you to promote the Keep Britain Tidy campaign in an effort to reduce litter, end unnecessary waste and improve public spaces.
You could:
• Make a poster;
• Write a song;
• Storyboard an advert;
• Create a leaflet;
• Or anything else creative that comes to mind.
More information on the Great Big School Clean can be found here.
Enjoy your home learning and get creative.