Year 5 & 6 Homework

19 March 2021

19 March 2021

This week our homework is Creative: I can show different ways to stay safe, including how to seek help.

In the first half-term, we promoted resilience as one of our Rs for learning. However, we can’t be resilient in all situations, at all times. It’s important for people to recognise when things seem overwhelming – and ask for help. It’s also important that children know how to stay safe. 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 how to seek help if they need it. 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!

Please send any completed homework to your child’s class teacher via email and it will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.

12 March 2021

This week, our homework is Creative:  

I can show how the digestive system works.

I can show how the circulatory system works. 

This homework links to our learning in science. Choose one statement and show how the digestive system or circulatory system works. 

Children could respond creatively to this in different ways: 

• create a model showing how the system works
• create a labelled drawing 
• produce a PowerPoint
• write an explanation

Here are some useful websites to support the children and remind them of how these systems work:

Digestive system

Circulatory system

04 December 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate different emotions.

This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to show that they can recognise, and show, different emotions. As humans, we display a huge-range of emotions. Sometimes, it’s obvious how we’re feeling. Sometimes, it’s trickier for us to show, or recognise, an emotion. This statement allows us to spend time thinking about the different emotions we experience and how we can recognise these accurately in ourselves and others.

Children could respond creatively to this in a range of ways:

• create a piece of art that shows a range of emotions
• take pictures of themselves (or others) displaying different emotions
• write a short-story in which a character shows lots of emotions
• devise a poem, song or rap about emotions
• create a comic strip to illustrate different emotions

Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 10^th December 2020. 

27 November 2020

Practice Makes Perfect: I know the key vocabulary from our history topic.

You have been fantastic at remembering lots of facts from our history topic where we’ve compared the Stone Age and Iron Age in Britain with what was going on in Ancient Egypt at around the same time. Our topic vocabulary is in the grid below. This week, I’d like you to re-cap on the vocabulary and teach somebody at home the meaning for each word. If  you are still unsure of some words then discuss these at home, find out using a dictionary, internet or books.

In our homework review, we will do a quiz to see if you’ve remembered all the words. There may even be a prize!!

Tips to help remember:

Draw it

Draw a picture to represent the meaning of the word.

Sentences

Say or write the words in your own sentences. You could discuss where the word works and where it doesn’t.

For example:

An empire is ruled by an emperor – correct.

I have an empire in my garden at home – incorrect.

Synonyms

Give words that mean the same as the topic vocabulary.

For example:

For advances, you could give ‘moved forward ’, ‘ made progresses, ‘made discoveries’ or ‘developed’.

20 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 26 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how can we STOP it:

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People

As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.

As the homework is creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

• Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
• Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
• Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
• Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

13 November 2020

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

In maths, we’ve learning all about division. In Year 5, we’ve been practising how to divide by 1 digit numbers. In Year 6, we’ve been learning how to divide by 2 digit numbers. Click here to watch a video to support you with the methods we learn in school.

Year 5 homework

Year 6 homework

06 November 2020

This week’s homework is creative. 

I can show how to multiply numbers.

We’ve been learning how to multiply 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. To remind yourself of the methods we use then go to our calculations and times tables page on our website or click here.

Can you show your understanding in a creative way?

• Create a poster
• Write some instructions with examples
• Write maths story with the calculations
• Make a video to show how to multiply
• Powerpoint

Or any other creative idea!

16 October 2020

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

In maths, we’ve been learning about multiples.

Complete this sheet finding the common multiples.

Extra challenge: complete this diamond maths activity where you need to think about multiplication and addition.

09 October 2020

09 October 2020

I can share my views about health