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.
23 February 2018
Focus: Talk time
As part of our social, moral, spiritual, cultural and health education, we would like to explore the moral issues surrounding animals in captivity.
You may want to discuss the following questions:
- Wild and free or safe and caged?
- Should animals be used for entertainment?
- Are zoos a good idea? What are their good and bad points?
- …or any other moral issues surrounding animals.
02 February 2018
Focus: Creative
‘I can stay safe online.’
Links to support your homework:
Here are some ideas for how you could present your homework:
- Create a poster
- Write a story
- Make a model
- Make a video
- PowerPoint
26 January 2018
Focus: Talk Time
This week, our Living and Learning statement is ‘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?
- what are the risks when going online or using social media?
- …..or anything else that comes up.
19 January 2018
Creative Homework
- mammal
- amphibian
- insect
- bird
How are they the same? How are they different?
12 January 2018
This week the homework is ‘practice makes perfect’.
There is a reading task in your homework books.
05 January 2018
Practice makes perfect homework: Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Useful links to support:
It’s Christmas!
We hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break and come back to school ready and fresh to learn on 02 January.
As it’s the holidays, there’s no homework this week but there’s a few things we think you should try and do over the festive break:
- spend time with family
- spend time with friends
- play outside
- throw a snowball
- build a snowman
- read a book, or two (or three)
- do something nice for your parents or carers
- spend some time relaxing and being mindful – remember our workshop?
- investigate something you observe
- be polite to everyone you meet
- eat a few treats (and plenty of veggies!)
- and, last but not least, have a generally awesome two weeks
08 December 2017
The homework this week is creative and is due on Thursday 14 December.
I can show what I know about a festival.
Around this time, many children in school will celebrate or will have celebrated a religious festival of some sort. This might be the Christian festival of Christmas (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians in the UK, too). It might also be the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali, the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, and the Chinese New Year festival which is early in the new year.
There are lots of other festivals and celebrations which you and your child together might want to reflect on. You can research more festivals.
We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script). Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.
01 December 2017
This week the homework is Practice makes Perfect. This is an opportunity to revise adding and subtracting fractions that we have looked at in class this week.
Here are some links to help you too.