Our whole-school homework this week is:
Living and Learning: alongside every right comes responsibility. At school for example, children have the right to play and relax, and the responsibility to play alongside others safely and respectfully. In lots of situations, we’ve the right to express our views, but we must do so in a respectful way.
Spend some time thinking of more examples in different situations: rights and responsibilities at home, in a shop, in a park…
BBC Bitesize ‘Rules, rights and responsibilities’ is worth checking out with children in Key Stage 2.
Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.
Number Fact Fluency: Use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.
Talk Time
This week’s talk time has a reading and oracy theme.
I know a poem.
This week, you’re going to be learning a poem. It takes great resilience and remembering skills to be able to learn a poem – two of our 8Rs for learning.
Key Stage 1
A Little Manners Poem (Anonymous)
Wait your turn – don’t interrupt.
If you use it, pick it up.
When you need some help, say “Please.” Be kind and loving – never tease.
Say “Hi” when meeting someone new, and be a friend whose words are true.
If you win a game, don’t gloat.
To thank someone, write a note.
Don’t be piggy when you eat.
And clean your space so it looks neat. These manners are the perfect start
to showing friends you have a heart!
Years 3 and 4
This poem is really powerful when read aloud. It also features the theme of perseverance – one of our Christian values.
Let No One Steal Your Dreams by Paul Cookson
Let no-one steal your dreams
Let no-one tear apart
The burning of ambition
That fires the drive inside your heart.
Let no-one steal your dreams
Let no-one tell you that you can’t
Let no-one hold you back
Let no-one tell you that you won’t.
Set your sights and keep them fixed
Set your sights on high
Let no-one steal your dreams
Your only limit is the sky.
Let no-one steal your dreams
Follow your heart
Follow your soul
For only when you follow them
Will you feel truly whole.
Set your sights and keep them fixed
Set your sights on high
Let no-one steal your dreams
Your only limit is the sky.
Years 5 and 6
Poetry from the Romantic Era focuses on the beauty of nature. The poem contrasts the tranquility of nature with the rapid urbanisation of Wordsworth’s time. The Romantic Movement was a reaction against this spread of industrialisation. We’re learning about urban expansion and the importance of urban green spaces in our Geography topic this half term.
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.