Home Learning 

In response to parental requests, we have decided to make this template available should you feel it would be helpful for your child when they are learning their spellings.   

Home Learning over the Christmas Break

 

Over the break we would like our students to enjoy a well-earned rest.  We have had an incredible two terms back at school and want our students to come back in January refreshed and ready to tackle Term 3. 

 

Our students should continue to read daily over the break (please remember to record any reading done in reading logs). Should you wish your child to revise anything we have learned over the past two years, Espresso and BBC Bitesize have excellent resources on all the topics we have studied so far.

 

We wish all our students and their families a merry Christmas and look forward to seeing everyone in January.

 

Mrs Mintram and Mr Lucas

Home Learning - due 10th December 

 

Spellings

We would like our students to practice their high frequency words this week. As a treat for the last week of term, we are sending home a spellings crossword rather than setting specific words. This should be returned on the 10th - each returned crossword will earn a Christmas merit.

 

Grammar and Punctuation

 

Please have your child/children complete work on speech marks found on the Espresso - the links can be found below.  They should watch the videos and complete the quizzes and activities.

Home Learning – due 11^th December 2020

 

Spellings

This week’s spelling are homophones and near homophones. Remember to look, say, cover, write then check. If you would like your child/children to practice their spellings on a spellings template, please see the attached file to print off.  Spellings are now tested on Thursdays so would be due on the 10th.

Accept

Except

Affect

Effect

Aloud

Allowed

Weather

Whether

Whose

Who’s

 

Maths

Please have your child/children complete the maths work on fractions attached below. This is due into school on the 11^th.

 

RE

As we approach Christmas, we want to encourage our students to remember the real meaning of Christmas for Christians.  Jesus’ birth has brought hope to many, and we would like our students to focus on this hope this week. They can choose one of the following options to complete:

1. Research a charity or group which works to bring hope to others during the Christmas season. What does this group to do bring hope to others? How did it start? Why is their work important?
2. Find a way to being hope to someone this week.  This could be writing a letter to a relative in a care home, baking for a neighbour, or something else of your child/children’s choosing.

Home Learning – due 4^th December

 

Spellings

This week’s spellings are based around our learning of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Remember to look, say, cover, write then check. If you would like your child/children to practice their spellings on a spellings template, please see the attached file to print off.  Spellings are now tested on Thursdays.

 

Treason

Guy Fawkes

Parliament

Gunpowder

Cellar

Conspirator

Torture

Robert Catesby

Lord Monteagle

Anonymous

 

Maths

Please have your child/children complete the attached work on factors as revision of what we have been learning over the past week. This should be returned into school on the 4^th.

 

Grammar

Pease have your child/children explore the synonyms and antonyms section on Espresso (logins are in the front of contact books). Remember to try the quiz and the activities.

Home Learning

 

Spellings - due 26^th November 2020

This week we are learning about words which end in a /shun/ sound but are spelled ‘tion’. Remember to look, say, cover, write then check. If you would like your child/children to practice their spellings on a spellings template, please see the attached file to print off.  Spellings are now tested on Thursdays.

 

Invention

Injection

Action

Question

Mention

Attraction

Translation

Devotion

Position

Solution

 

 Please remember that the Science and Geography homework set last week is due this Friday as well.

 

 

 

 

Home Learning

 

Spellings - Due Thursday 19th November

This week please practice these words which have a /shuhn/ sound spelled ‘ssion’. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

Expression

Discussion

Confession

Permission

Admission

Transmission

Possession

Profession

Depression

Impression

 

Geography - Due Friday 27th November

Over the upcoming weeks, we will be learning about the local Geography of Crowborough.  Over this week and next, we would like our students to create a town profile on what they know about Crowborough.  This week they should spend some time researching Crowborough's geography - they may wish to include information about its location, its population (following from our study on population last term), its climate or its physical features. Next week they should spend time creating their piece of work to be brought in. We would like to this information compiled on one A4 piece of paper (single or double sided).  This will be due on November 27^th. We look forward to seeing the colourful, well-presented work our students can come up with.

 

Science - Due Friday 27th November

This term we are learning about the classification of living things.  We would like our students to practice identifying the features of living things by completing the attached activity on identifying characteristics and returning it.

Home Learning – due 13^th November

 

Spellings

This week please practice these words which have a /shuhn/ sound spelled ‘sion’. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

Expansion

Extension

Comprehension

Tension

Corrosion

Supervision

Fusion

Conclusion

Persuasion

Suspension

 

Punctuation and Handwriting

Please follow the instructions and complete the sheet on semi-colons below. Remember, a semi-colon connects two independent clauses.  This is also an opportunity for our students to practice their handwriting as they are completing it – we are looking forward to seeing lovely presentation in their work!

 

Maths

Please have your child/children continue to practice their times tables this week on Times Tables Rock Stars. Please record in your child/children’s contact book which tables and the length of time practiced, along with an adult signature.

Half Term Home Learning

 

Over half term we would like our students to focus on building good habits by practicing a number of things for short bits each day. 

 

Reading

We want to encourage our students to continue to find what they love about reading. They should spend 20-30 minutes reading each day, and should be starting to read a wide variety of genres in order to explore where their interests are.

 

Times Tables

Your child/children should spend some time each day going over their times tables (and division tables). Times Table Rock Stars is a fantastic resource to help with this, which the school subscribes to.  Each child's login and password can be found in the front of their contact books.

 

Spellings

Please have your child/children practice words from the spelling list included below.  They should be identifying words that they find tricky to spell and practicing those.

 

 

 

 

Home Learning - due 23rd October 2020

 

Spellings

This week please practice the following words from the statutory word list. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

Accident

Actually

Different

Difficult

Grammar

Occasion

Opposite

Possession

Possible

Pressure

 

Science and English

Following our investigation of shadows this week as part of our study of light, please have your child/children create a shadow puppet.  As part of this, they should choose one of the following written activities (students should make sure they are paying attention to proper spellings, grammar and punctuation; this piece of writing will be returned to school):

• Write a play script to accompany their show
• Write instructions on how to make and perform a shadow puppet play
• Create a shadow to explain how shadows are formed
• Choose your own piece of writing to describe what is happening with shadows through the shadow puppet play

Home Learning - due 16th October 2020

 

For this week's homework please ensure your child/children are reading for at least 15 minutes every day, in addition to completing the following:

 

Spellings

This week please practice the following words from the statutory word list. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

Answer

February

Guard

Knowledge

Surprise

Amateur

Awkward

Guarantee

Mischievous

Queue

 

Maths

 

Please have your child/children explore the Estimating and Rounding section of Espresso this week.  We encourage them to complete the Estimating calculations and Rounding whole numbers and estimating sheets under the Activities section. Espresso logins should now be written in all contact books.

 

Geography

 

Following on from our study of migration and using the census to understand the demographics of a population, we would like our students to create their own census to ask their household. We have been learning about the importance of the census and how it represents important information about a population. Please have your child/children create a census with questions that would help us better understand our population, and which would help future generations understand the past. This piece of work is due in by Friday and will be included in their geography books, along with an explanation of why they included the questions they did.

 

 

Home Learning – due 9^th October 2020

 

For this week's homework please ensure your child/children are reading for at least 15 minutes every day, in addition to completing the following:

 

Spelling – This week’s spelling focus on the s sound spelled ‘sc’. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

Science

Abscess

Ascend

Descend

Scene

Scissors

Scented

Crescent

Describe

Fascinate

 

RE

For RE homework this week, we would like our students to find some time to gaze at the night sky and record down their feelings and sensations (should the weather choose not to cooperate, this can be completed by looking up video clips of the night sky on YouTube as well). We want to encourage them to think about how amazing the world is, and then collect a few images which make them realise how wonderful our world is.  They should bring these images in, along with their thoughts and feelings after looking at the night sky for use in our RE lesson next Friday.

 

Literacy

Please visit Espresso on the link below and have your child/children complete the work on formal and informal language, including the quiz and activity. This does not need to be brought into school.

 

Home Learning - due 2 October 2020

 

For this week's homework please ensure your child/children are reading for at least 15 minutes every day, in addition to completing the following:

 

Spellings

This week's spelling are related to our study of population in geography. Be sure to look, cover, write then check.

 

Population

Density

Geography

Distribution

Densely

Sparsely

Migration

Urban

Rural

Census

 

Maths

Please complete the attached questions over the week.  Remember to practice your times tables every day.

**Please note: there is a typo in question 4 of the maths homework. Michael's number should be 49 060 when rounded to the nearest 10.   

   

 

History

 

Over the next term we will be studying the Tudors.  This week, we’d like you to get to know them! Please choose one of the following tasks to complete and bring in on Friday,18^th September:

• Create a portrait of a Tudor king or queen (such as Henry VIII, Mary I or Elizabeth I)
• Create a Tudor family tree beginning with Henry VI
• Create a dinner menu that would have been typical for a rich Tudor family and for a poor Tudor family