Homework

04 May 2020: Home learning

Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of home learning. You are all doing amazingly! Did any of you do Mr Mills’ Friday challenge?

Maths: Last Friday’s challenge answers.  This week’s learning. Year 4 main learning video and challenge video. Year 4 worksheet.     Year 3 learning video and Year 3 worksheet.

Reading: Today we are going to have another look at the text from Friday. Your challenge is to answer the questions set by your class mates last week. (These questions were written by Leah.)

Topic: Today we are learning more about counties in the United Kingdom. Use compass directions to find the counties.

Spellings: This week we are revising the long e vowel sound. There is a wordsearch for you to do and a  wordsearch template so that you can create your own. Here is also a reminder page of spelling strategies that you could use.

May the 4th be with you. (This is a Star Wars joke – May the force be with you!)

28 February 2020

This week, our homework is Creative and is helping us to celebrate World Book Day next week.

I can show what I love about reading.  

Children could come up with their own ideas for how to show this, or ideas might include:

• create a labelled diagram of the perfect place to read in
• write a book review
• draw and label/describe a character from your favourite book
• write a letter to an author telling them how much you loved reading their book
• write a one minute speech on your favourite book, persuading others to read it – consider what the most exciting parts are, which characters you love or you love to hate, who might enjoy reading it next and why

Be as creative as you like.

This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review on World Book Day itself, 5 March 2020.

07 February 2020

This week, the whole school has the same creative homework, which is due in on Thursday 13 February 2020.

I can show different ways to stay safe, including online.

This week, linked to our Living & Learning, we have been thinking about how to make safe choices, including online. 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 who might help them to stay safe. 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!

The homework will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.

Friday 31 January

The homework this week is talk time and is due on Thursday 06 February.

‘I can teach someone at home a mindfulness technique.’

Next week it’s Children’s Mental Health Week. On Friday, during your living and learning session, you learnt some mindfulness techniques. Mindfulness gives your brain a moment of pause to assess any situation without responding irrationally and full of emotions. This week, talk to your family about the techniques you’ve learnt and teach someone in your family one of the mindfulness techniques you have learnt such as:

• Self-hug
• Okay breathing
• Breathing tree
• Bubble breathing
• Elephant breathing

24 January 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: What is a drug?

This homework, which links to our Living and Learning statement, is a first step in children becoming aware of drugs. There are a few key points you may wish to talk about at home. Children need to be aware that some drugs are helpful, some are harmful, some are legal, some are illegal. Don’t forget to consider that even the legal or helpful ones can be harmful.

Below are some question prompts that could help shape your discussion…

• What is a good definition for a drug?
• What is a drug? What is not a drug?
• Are all drugs bad?
• Why might some people need to take medicines?
• Who can prescribe medicine?
• Who should administer medicine?
• What should you do if you find some medicine?
• Should you take medicine that isn’t yours?

Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve talked about at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Thursday 30 January.

17 January 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework:

I can show different ways to make things better.

This homework, which is due on Thursday 24 January, is an opportunity for children to reflect on our living & learning statement for this week: I can make things better.

Children should think about ways to make things better in a variety of different situations and contexts:

• in class

• in a friendship group
• at playtimes
• at home
• with siblings
• out and about (countryside, park)
• the wider environment (recycling)

You could consider…

• Why should we try and make things better?
• How do we do this?
• When should we apologise?
• What is the effect it has on others around us when we make things better?
• Older children might want to consider the benefits of restorative justice.

Don’t forget to be creative! Produce a report or diary; capture photos of making things better; create rules for better games at play times; make a poster about how to say sorry; or, think of your own creative response.

This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review.

10 January 2020

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.

This half term, our science topic is “Power it up!”. We will be looking at the uses of electricity and the importance of safety before constructing simple circuits.

Here are nine words from our science topic:

Choose four of the words that you don’t know the definition for. Find the definition and write a sentence using each word. Make sure you are able to explain, in your own words, what the new word means.

06 December 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

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

I can show what I know and think about something 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 can show what I know about a festival.

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.

06 December 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

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

I can show what I know and think about something 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 can show what I know about a festival.

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.

29 November 2019

This week’s homework is creative.

Competition Time!

This week, we have been really lucky to have Mat from Leeds United Foundation visit school. He spoke to us about the Leeds United values: family, pride, innovation, ambition and graft.

For homework, I would like you to create a poster that shows how these values relate to our Christian values: friendship, love, perseverance, honesty, forgiveness and peace and our school vision which is to be a happy and healthy place to achieve and believe.

The posters will be sent to Mat, who will judge the poster and the winner will receive a family ticket to go and watch Leeds United V Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday 11 January 2020!