25 September 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 01 October.
This week, write your numbers, focusing on correct formation and orientation (the right way round).
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect. This is linked to the Maths learning on rounding that the children have completed this week. There are also some spellings to learn and a times table review.
Click this link for the homework.
Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve completed at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Friday 25th September.
As the homework books are still not allowed to return to school, please feel free to email any photos of homework to your class teacher.
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18 September 2020
We’re setting weekly homework as we normally do. The key difference here is that Homework Books should stay at home for the time being. Just as normal, the tasks will be posted on the website. Instead of the task pasted into books, children will take home a piece of paper with the task on, too (like this!). The tasks will be a variety of Talk Time, Practice Makes Perfect and Creative, but especially the first two. Parents can email a picture or update about a completed task (just as you were doing with the home learning tasks we set in Spring and Summer terms). The homework will be reviewed in school, so some pictures would be good!
This week, our homework is Talk Time: I know the 8Rs for learning and how we use them at school, and at home.
In school, we use the 8Rs for learning: ready, responsive, risk-taking, responsibility, resourceful, resilient, reflect and remember.
We’d like the children to discuss what these words mean to them. Below is a list of questions that might help with your discussion.
How do the 8 Rs help you in school?
When have you used the 8 Rs outside of school?
How could you explain the meaning of each word in the 8 Rs?
Which 8 R do you think you use the most?
Which 8 R could you use more often?
Homework should be completed by Thursday 24 September 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class.
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.
Times tables
Next week, we’ll recap the 10x table. We’d really like you to help consolidate this learning at home. Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 25 September 2020.
In class, we’ve spotted lots of children using their fingers (and similar strategies) to count up when working out times tables. This is a good strategy if you’re unsure of a specific table, and is certainly better than getting it wrong, but we’d really like children to know these tables as facts – and be able to recall these facts in just a few seconds.
If your child fancies a challenge, practise the other facts they know if they know a specific table.
eg If I know that 2 x 10 = 20, what else do I know?
I know that… 10 x 2 = 20 20 = 10 x 2 20 ÷ 10 = 2
20 ÷ 2 = 10 2 = 20 ÷ 10 10 = 20 ÷ 2
I can also use my place value knowledge…
2 x 100 = 200 2 x 1000 = 2,000 20 x 10 = 200 200 x 10 = 2,000
18 September 2020
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 24 September.
I can talk about a time when showed resilience (didn’t give up).
We have been reading After The Fall (by Dan Santat) and it is all about how Humpty Dumpty never gives up. Talk about a time when you have shown resilience – keeping going even when things are hard.
Friday 11 September 2020
We’re setting weekly homework as we normally do. The key difference here is that Homework Books should stay at home for the time being. Just as normal, the tasks will be posted on the website. Instead of the task pasted into books, children will take home a piece of paper with the task on, too (like this!). The tasks will be a variety of Talk Time, Practice Makes Perfect and Creative, but especially the first two. Parents can email a picture or update about a completed task (just as you were doing with the home learning tasks we set in Spring and Summer terms). The homework will be reviewed in school, so some pictures would be good!
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can write simple sentences about myself.
In our writing lessons, we’ve been practising writing simple sentences with capital letters and full stops – it’s been a while since we’ve written. To consolidate this learning, we’d like children to continue to practise this at home. Our writing learning is going to get a bit trickier from now so it’d be great if children feel really confident with this basic skill.
Here’s an example…
My favourite food is pasta.
If your child needs more of a challenge, ask them to write an ‘All about me’. This could be one paragraph, or more.
Homework should be completed by Thursday 17 September 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class.
Our email addresses are below:
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org
3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org
Times tables
This week, we’ve recapped the 2x table. Some of us are confident, some of us less so. We’d really like you to help consolidate this learning at home. Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 18 September 2020.
In class, we’ve spotted lots of children using their fingers (and similar strategies) to count up when working out times tables. This is a good strategy if you’re unsure of a specific table, and is certainly better than getting it wrong, but we’d really like children to know these tables as facts – and be able to recall these facts in just a few seconds.
If your child fancies a challenge, practise the other facts they know if they know a specific table.
eg If I know that 2 x 5 = 10, what else do I know?
I know that… 2 x 5 = 10 10 = 2 x 5 10 ÷ 5 = 2
10 ÷ 2 = 5 2 = 10 ÷ 5 5 = 10 ÷ 2
I can also use my place value knowledge…
Friday 11 September 2020
We’re setting weekly homework as we normally do. The key difference here is that Homework Books should stay at home for the time being. Just as normal, the tasks will be posted on the website. Instead of the task pasted into books, children will take home a piece of paper with the task on, too (like this!). The tasks will be a variety of Talk Time, Practice Makes Perfect and Creative, but especially the first two. Parents can email a picture or update about a completed task (just as you were doing with the home learning tasks we set in Spring and Summer terms). The homework will be reviewed in school, so some pictures would be good!
This week, our homework is Practice Makes Perfect: I can write simple sentences about myself.
In our writing lessons, we’ve been practising writing simple sentences with capital letters and full stops – it’s been a while since we’ve written. To consolidate this learning, we’d like children to continue to practise this at home. Our writing learning is going to get a bit trickier from now so it’d be great if children feel really confident with this basic skill.
Here’s an example…
My favourite food is pasta.
If your child needs more of a challenge, ask them to write an ‘All about me’. This could be one paragraph, or more.
Homework should be completed by Thursday 17 September 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class.
Our email addresses are below:
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4NV – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org
3,4EV – emmamccormick@spherefederation.org
Times tables
This week, we’ve recapped the 2x table. Some of us are confident, some of us less so. We’d really like you to help consolidate this learning at home. Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 18 September 2020.
In class, we’ve spotted lots of children using their fingers (and similar strategies) to count up when working out times tables. This is a good strategy if you’re unsure of a specific table, and is certainly better than getting it wrong, but we’d really like children to know these tables as facts – and be able to recall these facts in just a few seconds.
If your child fancies a challenge, practise the other facts they know if they know a specific table.
eg If I know that 2 x 5 = 10, what else do I know?
I know that… 2 x 5 = 10 10 = 2 x 5 10 ÷ 5 = 2
10 ÷ 2 = 5 2 = 10 ÷ 5 5 = 10 ÷ 2
I can also use my place value knowledge…
2 x 50 = 100 2 x 500 = 1,000 20 x 5 = 100 200 x 5 = 1,000
Friday 11 September 2020
This week, your homework will be a Talk Time. Next week, our Living and Learning statement is I know the 8 Rs for learning.
Our 8 Rs for learning are…
ready
responsive
risk-taking
responsibility
resourceful
resilient
reflect
remember
We’d like the children to discuss what these words mean to them. Below is a list of questions to help with your discussion.
How do the 8 Rs help you in school?
When have you used the 8 Rs outside of school?
How could you explain the meaning of each word in the 8 Rs?
Which 8 R do you think you use the most?
Which 8 R could you use more often?
Which of the 8 Rs have you used in the first week back at school?
11 September 2020
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is for children to learn to write their full name. For more information, the Homework Guide can be found here.
Year 1s please try to use a lead-in line and Year 2s, joined. A copy of the handwriting guide can be found here.
Welcome to Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and 2)
Below are all the links to the videos and information presentations that have been made for children starting in Year 1 or 2 in September 2020.
We hope you have a happy and healthy summer and we will see you in September.
Outdoor tour videos :
Teacher videos :
Miss Lowry https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYijQ75pBe
Mrs Lake https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYiQ6l5GIc
Mrs Latham Hello 1,2V video
Mr Gathercole Hello 2C
17 July 2020 : Home learning
Well, it’s here! The last day of term for 2019-20. We hope you are all safe, happy and healthy. Enjoy the summer holidays and we will see each other again soon.
Maths – position and direction
Today watch the BBC bitesize video and complete the activities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmdr92p
Reading
It can be sad saying goodbye. Sometimes it helps to write it down.
Write a farewell letter to someone. It could be your teacher, a friend or anyone you like.
You need to include:
Dear …
What you enjoyed doing with them.
Who it is from.
Topic – staying safe online
Make your own poster about staying safe online.