Our whole-school homework this week is:
Living and Learning:
I know the importance of personal hygiene, including handwashing… is our Living and Learning statement this week.
This is a big area to think about! It would be a good idea to break this down into a few areas, and come up with a few top tips for each. For example, food hygiene (eg wash hands before eating and preparing food), hand hygiene (eg wash hands after every trip to the toilet), health hygiene (eg sneeze or cough into our elbow, not into our hands – we sometimes call this the vampire method), and oral hygiene (eg brush teeth twice a day, including last thing at night – no snacks afterwards).
Aimed at younger children, this BBC Bitesize clip called ‘Keeping clean’ is worth watching with your child.
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 poses a moral question and makes links to our current computing topic.
Are computer games bad for your health?
We suggest approaching this Talk Time with an open mind. You may already have strong views on this but it’s important to consider both sides of an argument before reaching your conclusions.
Check out these R2s to help you with your discussions at home:
- What are the health benefits of playing computer games?
- Remember that mental health is crucial to being a healthy person.
- How does playing computer games negatively impact on your health?
- How could this impact on your physical health?
- Is gaming always an enjoyable experience?
- Decide which argument is the strongest.
- This might be the side with the most points to back it up.
- You might consider some points to be more important than others.
- You may not agree with people you speak to – that’s okay!
After the discussion with friends and family, what conclusion do you reach? Do others around you agree?