Homework

19 March 2021

19 March 2021

This week our homework is Creative: I can show different ways to stay safe, including how to seek help.

In the first half-term, we promoted resilience as one of our Rs for learning. However, we can’t be resilient in all situations, at all times. It’s important for people to recognise when things seem overwhelming – and ask for help. It’s also important that children know how to stay safe. 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 how to seek help if they need it. 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!

Please send any completed homework to your child’s class teacher via email and it will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.

12 March 2021

The homework this week is talk time and is due in to discuss on Thursday 18 March.

I know what to do if I need help.

This homework is linked to our Living and Learning statement for this week. Children should think about:

• when they may need help with something
• who they should ask
• why it’s important to ask for help.

We’ll then discuss the homework in class.

12 March 2021

This week is a Talk Time homework, which is due in on Thursday 18 March 2021.

I can talk about a worry that was ok in the end.

It has been lovely to see our classes this week. Some children were feeling a little bit nervous or worried about coming back to school. Have a chat about the highlights of the first week back or something they’d been worrying about that turned out okay. You could also talk about things they’d missed about being at school (seeing friends, learning in class instead of in front of a screen, lunches – anything!)

This will be discussed in class as part of our weekly homework review.

Times tables

This week, you should focus on revisiting the 3 and 6 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example  3 x 100 or 0.6 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Thursday 17th December.

11 December 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 17 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can present a review of a book / TV show / film or something else 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!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I know what a faith celebration means to me.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort.  This might have been

• the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
• the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
• the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
• the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
• and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

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.

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 18 December 2020. 

03 December 2020

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 10^th December 2020. 

Times tables

This week, you should focus on revisiting the 4 and 8 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example  8 x 100 or 0.4 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 11th December.

27 November 2020

This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.

This half-term, we’ve been historians in our topic lessons and have already learnt lots of Ancient Greece. Part of our topic is learning some key vocabulary. These words help us to learn the knowledge we need and help us to articulate this knowledge better.

For your homework this week, we’d like you to be really confident with what all of these words mean. There’s a few ways you could do this and we’d like you to tackle this homework using a strategy that works for you. If you’re unsure, here’s a few ideas…

• Practise using them in sentences
• Create your own definition for each word
• Create an action or rhyme for each word to help you remember them
• Play ‘classic’ games like taboo, Pictionary or charades using these words
• Ask an adult to test you on your way to school or whilst you’re eating
• Try and use these words in as many sentences as you can over the course of a night, weekend or whole week – you could even turn it into a competition for who can score the most points.

Our email addresses are below:

3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org

3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org

3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org & vickyrichardson@spherefederation.org

If your child is in 3,4N or 3,4E please send emails to both teachers.

27 November 2020

This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.

The words in the table below all relate to Ancient Egypt and the end of the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Use some activities from this sheet to help recall the words and their meaning.

Times tables

This week, you should focus on revisiting the 9 and 11 times tables. Make sure you have a very quick recall of the multiplication facts up to the 12th multiple. Link your knowledge to the number facts you know, for example 9 x 100 or 0.9 x 10. There will be a multiplication test on Friday 4^th November 2020.

27 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Practice Makes Perfect homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 03 December. It is all about our history topic. The vocabulary is linked to the Great Fire of London. Find the words in the wordsearch. Challenge : write each word in a sentence.

• old
• modern
• artefact
• firebreak
• diary
• rebuild