23 February 2018
Focus: Talk time
As part of our social, moral, spiritual, cultural and health education, we would like to explore the moral issues surrounding animals in captivity.
You may want to discuss the following questions:
- Wild and free or safe and caged?
- Should animals be used for entertainment?
- Are zoos a good idea? What are their good and bad points?
- …or any other moral issues surrounding animals.
02 February 2018
This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 8th February.
Year 1 are practicing their addition skills up to 10/20. To complete this, they may use counters or objects, their fingers or use any mental methods they know. To encourage their fluency, have a look at Hit the Button – a free game where the children can try and beat their score on number bonds to 20 or addition within 10/20.
Year 2 are practicing their multiplication and division skills. They are learning that if they know 5 x 2 = 10 then they also know the inverse, 10 ÷ 2 = 5. To encourage their fluency, have a look at Hit the Button – a free game where they can practice their multiplication and division skills. Year 2 need to know their 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables.
02 February 2018
Focus: Creative
‘I can stay safe online.’
Links to support your homework:
Here are some ideas for how you could present your homework:
- Create a poster
- Write a story
- Make a model
- Make a video
- PowerPoint
02 February 2018
Focus: Practice Makes Perfect
This week, we have been learning about different sorting diagrams, Venn and Carroll diagrams in particular.
Your child has a Venn and Carroll diagram stuck in their book to complete at home.
A great interactive Venn diagram can be found here.
26 January 2018
Focus: Talk Time
This week, our Living and Learning statement is ‘I am aware of risks’.
Talk with your child about risks.
You might want to talk about:
- risks at home, at school and in lots of other places – can your child consider risks in different situations?
- weighing up risks – some risks (like putting your hand up to answer a question) is a safe risk as the worst that can happen is you might get the answer wrong; other risks are more dangerous – can you think of some more examples of safe and unsafe risks?
- risks to physical health (such as smoking), risks to mental health (such as stress) – can your child think about other examples?
- what are the risks when going online or using social media?
- …..or anything else that comes up.
19 January 2018
Creative Homework
- mammal
- amphibian
- insect
- bird
How are they the same? How are they different?
19 January 2018
This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect. It’s due on Thursday 25 October.
Year 1
This week, we’ve been practising sorting out muddled up simple sentences. For example:
- sing. like I to → I like to sing.
Year 1 children have mixed up sentences to sort and rewrite correctly. Don’t forget the capital letter and full stops!
Year 2
Year 2s are expected to know how to use an apostrophe to show letters are missing (contractions). For example:
- can not → can’t
- did not → didn’t
Year 2 have words to turn into contractions and then they need to write sentences using these contractions. Don’t forget the apostrophe (and, of course, the capital letter and full stops)!
19 January 2018
Focus: Practice makes perfect
We’ve been learning how to represent and interpret different sets of data this week.
Your child has a worksheet glued into their homework book to complete.
More information on graphs and charts can be found here.
12 January 2018
This week the homework is ‘practice makes perfect’.
There is a reading task in your homework books.
12 January 2018
Focus: Creative
This week we’ve been using conjunctions in reports.
Task: Write a short report about the dragon below. Each sentence must contain a conjunction.
More information on conjunctions and supporting activities can be found here.
