13 November 2020
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 19 November.
I can show how sound travels.
In science, we have been learning about how sound travels. We have seen the rice vibrating on the drum – the louder the sound the bigger the vibrations. Find a way to show how sound travels.
Please send a picture of the completed homework to Mrs Rowley (beckyrowley@spherefederation.org)
Times tables:
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
06 November 2020
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Complete the sheet and send a picture of it to stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org by Thursday 12 November.
Times tables
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
16 October 2020
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Complete the sheet and send a picture of it to stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org
Year 3 – we have been looking at adding and subtracting a 1 digit number to/ from a 3 digit number. Remember, if you know 3+4=7 then you also know that 353+4=357.
Year 4 – we have been adding two 3 digit numbers. Be careful when you’re adding, and the total is more than 10, that you carry over the 10s or 100s to the correct place.
Times tables
If you want some quick-fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
09 October 2020
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
09 October 2020
I can share my views about health
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
02 October 2020
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 08 October
This half term, our Christian value is friendship. Sometimes we find ourselves in difficult situations, which leave us in a moral dilemma. Talk to somebody about the examples below.
What you would do in the same situation? Why are these moral dilemmas?
- You see your friend cheating in a maths test.
- Your friends are in a club with you at school. A new child joins the class but they won’t let them join the club.
- Someone is saying unkind things about your friend behind their back.
- Your parents have asked you to come straight home after school. Your friends want you to go to the park with them. They say that you should go to the park.
Talk to somebody and make notes so you are ready to feedback in our homework review on Thursday 08 October.
There’s an old saying that goes, “In order to have good friends, you have to be a good friend.” What does that mean? Do you think it’s true? Why? What are the benefits of having friends who are different from us?
Email your thoughts and ideas to Mrs Rowley ( stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org )
Times tables
Times tables
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
25 September 2020
This week, our homework is Talk Time: I can use the 8Rs to help me learn.
In school, we use the 8Rs for learning: ready, responsive, risk-taking, responsibility, resourceful, resilient, reflect and remember.
We’d like the children to discuss what these words mean to them. Below is a list of questions that might help with your discussion.
- How do the 8 Rs help you in school?
- When have you used the 8 Rs outside of school?
- How could you explain the meaning of each word in the 8 Rs?
- Which 8 R do you think you use the most?
- Which 8 R could you use more often?
- How could you use the 8 Rs at home?
Homework should be completed by Thursday 01 October 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class. Please send any completed homework to Mrs Rowley ( stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org )
Times tables
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
18 September 2020
This week’s homework is Practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 24 September.
Please send a picture of the completed homework to Mrs Rowley (beckyrowley@spherefederation.org)
Times tables:
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
11 September 2020
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 17 September.
What qualities do you look for in a friend?
This half term, our Christian value is friendship. In school and in collective worship, we will be looking at what makes a good friend and examples of being a good friend from the Bible. With your family, discuss the main question (What qualities do you look for in a friend?) along with the other suggestions underneath. Be prepared to talk about your answers in our homework review.
There’s an old saying that goes, “In order to have good friends, you have to be a good friend.” What does that mean? Do you think it’s true? Why? What are the benefits of having friends who are different from us?
Times tables:
Each week, you will be sent times tables to practise. The idea being, by the end of year 4 you will know all of your times tables. You need to be able to know them off by heart with rapid recall (within 5 seconds). If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
15 July 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday – you’ve two more get-ups until the summer holidays. Are you ready to be year 4s and year 5s?
School trip
Today, we’re leaving London and heading up to Scotland’s capital city: Edinburgh. We’re going to visit Edinburgh Zoo and have a look at their animal webcams to see what the animals are up to.
Our focus for today is reading. There are three reading comprehensions for you to choose from with varying abilities. 1 star being the easiest and 3 star being the hardest.
1 star – learn all about tigers.
2 star – learn all about koalas.
3 star – learn all about elephants.
Living and Learning
Normally in school, we would be talking a lot about transition and moving up into a new year group. Half of you stay with your current teacher whilst the other half experience a new teacher.
Today, I would like you to develop a character profile of your superhero self, listing five superhero qualities and writing a unique fact about yourselves. As an extension, you can create a basic comic strip of your superhero self, describing your superhero qualities in basic story format.
If you would like a template to follow, there is one here.
This will be useful to show either Mrs Welsby and I, if you’re in year 3 currently, or Miss Beatson, if you’re in year 4 currently. Either save them for September or ask your grownup to email a copy to beckyrowley@spherefederation.org.