8 June 2018
This week’s homework is Creative.
I can show what I know about crocodiles.
It is up to you but you could:
- draw and label a picture
- research facts on the internet
- create a factfile
17 May 2018
This week’s whole school homework is Creative.
I can design a friendship bench.
School Council would like you to design a friendship bench. We are buying two plain garden benches to be painted and decorated by the School Council.
It may have:
- kind messages or words
- pictures/emojis
- bright inviting colours
- our 8Rs
Use your imagination and get creative!
As you will have seen, School Council have been selling ice pops after school. The money raised will be split between our school charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, and go towards purchasing the friendship benches. During nice weather spells, we’ll continue to run the ice pop stall.
11 May 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. A sheet will be stuck in your child’s book.
04 May 2018
This week’s homework is a whole school Talk Time homework.
I can talk about my learning.
Look at the photographs. You could talk about:
- the learning that you see in the photos
- what learning could have happened before
- what learning might happen next
27 April 2018
This week’s homework is Creative.
I can show what I know about my favourite toy.
Creative homework involves a creative piece of open-ended work based around an ‘I can…’ statement. As a general guide, your child should stick to just one page of A4. You can draw, write, stick things in or use a computer and print it out – it’s up to you!
20 April 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
Year 1 have a sheet stuck in their homework book. It’s all about money and they are encouraged to play ‘shops’ – buying items and paying with the correct money.
Year 2 will be given a revision sheet covering a variety of areas that will be useful for our upcoming SATs.
23 March 2018
This week’s homework is Talk Time.
What is beautiful?
You could talk about:
- how beauty has different meanings
- how beauty is in the ‘eye of the beholder’
- what is beautiful to one person may be very different for another
- how ‘beautiful’ images or people can be changed using special cameras or computers
- how the world around can be beautiful
16 March 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
Choose an animal poem. Copy it into your book. Try to read the poem every day to learn it by heart. There are some ideas below.
09 March 2018
This week’s homework is Talk Time.
I can talk about counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
You could:
- Talk about equal and unequal groups
- Talk about when and why we count in 2s, 5s and 10s
- Use objects or examples around your house to count in 2s, 5s and 10s (counting pairs of shoes, counting money, walking up the stairs in 2s)
- Count forwards in 2s, 5s, 10s
- Count backwards in 2s, 5s, 10s
- Starting at different numbers counting forwards and backwards
- Year 2s could practise the multiplication and division facts
02 March 2018
This week’s homework is Creative.
I can find, show and tell number stories.
You could find number stories around your house or outside. Draw a picture or take a photograph of the number story, writing the related number sentences to accompany it. There are some examples below.
I have 2 cats. Each cat has 4 legs.
- 4 + 4 = 8.
- Double 4 is eight.
- Half of 8 is 4.
- 2 x 4 = 8
My fence has 13 slats in each panel. There are 4 panels.
- 13 + 13 + 13 + 13 = 52
- 13 x 4 = 52
I made 12 cupcakes. I ate 3 of them.
- 12 – 3 = 9
- 9 = 12 – 3
- 3 + 9 = 12