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
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
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
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.
05 January 2018
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.
Complete the maths sheets on angles and subtraction.
Here are some reminders on different types angles.
Homework is due on Thursday 11 January.
It’s Christmas!
We hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break and come back to school ready and fresh to learn on 02 January.
As it’s the holidays, there’s no homework this week but there’s a few things we think you should try and do over the festive break:
- spend time with family
- spend time with friends
- play outside
- throw a snowball
- build a snowman
- read a book, or two (or three)
- do something nice for your parents or carers
- spend some time relaxing and being mindful – remember our workshop?
- investigate something you observe
- be polite to everyone you meet
- eat a few treats (and plenty of veggies!)
- and, last but not least, have a generally awesome two weeks
08 December 2017
The homework this week is creative and is due on Thursday 14 December.
I can show what I know about a festival.
Around this time, many children in school will celebrate or will have celebrated a religious festival of some sort. This might be the Christian festival of Christmas (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians in the UK, too). It might also be the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali, the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, and the Chinese New Year festival which is early in the new year.
There are lots of other festivals and celebrations which you and your child together might want to reflect on. You can research more festivals.
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.
01 December 2017
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.
We’ve been learning about measures and how to convert between different measures eg centimetres (cm) to metres (m).
Your child will have a sheet stuck into their book to complete for Thursday 07 December.
Challenge: How tall are you in metres, centimetres and millimetres?
24 November 2017
For all children in Year 1 – Year 6, the homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 30 November.
Following our whole school themed week this week, Who do you think you are? Children should consider the following statement by showing what they have learnt.
I know what community is.
As a guide, children could think about these aspects.
- What is community?
- Where is their community? Children could consider their school community to local community to wider community.
- Who is in their community? Children could consider visits/visitors during our themed week.
- Why is community important? Children could consider the terms identity and diversity discussed during our themed week.
- How can we be a good citizen in our community?
This could be done in any creative way.
- a story
- a poem
- a map
- a comic strip
- an advert
- an interview
- a game
- a model
- …or any other creative ideas!