This week’s homework is a preparation task. More details can be found on the document below. If your child has lost this document (which was sent home today), they can use a piece of paper to complete the task.

Homework discussion text

Pupils also need to think of some good ideas for their end of year exhibition. We will be completing our plab=ns in school next week.

Mrs. E.

No homework tasks have been set this week.

Useful quick refresher sites (short videos and/or activities):

Grammar and spelling

Corbett maths

Reading

Homework was given out yesterday, along with marked homework from the previous week.

Maths Year 6:

There are only two reasoning questions for the pupils to answer this weekend. I have asked the children to show all of the steps in their working out. This should be handed in on Tuesday morning. Some pupils asked for some optional extra homework (well done!) – this can be handed in at any time.

English Year 5 & 6:

The pupils have been asked to think of two strong points that support the argument FOR school uniform and two that support an argument AGAINST it. Bullet points are fine, as we are going to use these points to write a ‘discussion’ text in class next week. This homework was set in the red writing target books and is due in on Tuesday.

Useful sites for revision (optional!)

Corbett Primary Maths

Grammar Revision BBC

Maths homework (Year 6).

We have been working on ratio this week. Our homework is to solve a questions 1 – 4 in the booklet below (sent home on paper). Pupils can continue and answer other questions if they wish to.

ratio-questions

(Year 5 will have been given maths homework by Mrs. Brotherhood)

English homework (Year 5 & 6).

Our English homework is a focus on apostrophes for possession. The children have ten sentences to rewrite correctly. This has been sent home on paper but a copy can be found here:

Apostrophes_for_Possession_Homework

Maths and English homework should be handed in on Monday morning. 

Maths target books.

All Year 6 maths target books have been marked and returned. Most children have a few questions to review and correct. These are highlighted in orange. Target books can be handed in whenever the pupils have completed the tasks – before Thursday next week, if possible.

All the best,

Mrs. E.

English:

All pupils have a short English homework task to complete in their writing target books. I would like to collect these in on, or before, Tuesday next week. Additionally, we have produced a draft biography of an inspirational person. I have asked the children to take this home over the weekend and annotate changes or additions that will make their work even better. We will be creating our final version next week.

Maths:

Year 6 children have been working on their target maths independently throughout the week. I would like to collect all target books in on Monday. Year 5 pupils will have maths homework set by Mrs. Brotherhood.

Maths Homework – Year 6.

(Year 5 will have been given maths homework by Mrs. Brotherhood.) Year 6 pupils have had their target books updated in light of our recent assessment. I have chosen a target for each pupil to work on and have supplied some questions for them to complete. The children have also identified their own target to work on. Resources to support this can easily be found online. I have included a few useful sites for revision below:

Revision – arithmetic. 

Revision – reasoning.

Defenders of mathematics revision game.

Online self-testing activities

English Homework – all Darwin Pupils.

Follow the following links to find out about key features of English:

Metaphors and similes

A task to complete has been sent home on paper. An alternative task can be found here.

Synonyms and antonyms 

A task to complete has been sent home on paper. An alternative task can be found here.

(To access the alternative tasks, use your first name [space] initial of your surname.)

All homework is due in on Monday 23rd February.

There are two tasks this week:

Task 1 is a maths task (Year 5 children will have a task set by Mrs. Brotherhood). The Year 6 task focuses on consolidating our ability to order and round decimals. It was sent home on paper today and is due in on Monday morning.

Task 2 is a preparation task. The children (Year 5 & 6) need to research who ‘Highwaymen’ were. They have brought home a prompt sheet to help them to find relevant information. The children do not need to create a presentation or any extended writing, notes will do. What is important is that they come to the lesson with prior knowledge about highwaymen. This homework is due in on Wednesday.

Maths (Year 6 only – Year 5s will have been given maths homework by Mrs. Brotherhood).

Ordering Decimals.

1. Watch this very short video: How to order decimals
2. Complete this online activity until you are confident: Put decimal numbers in order (Year 6 maths practice)
3. Complete the maths sheet (double sided – sent home today).
4. Bring your completed work into school on Monday.

Children also have their maths targets to work on. I would like the to see the target books again by the end of next week.

Reading (Years 5 & 6)

Close reading and summarising.

1. Read the text ‘The Rush for Gold’ – sent home today.
2. Summarise the text. What is it about? What are the main points? (Working through paragraph by paragraph can be helpful.)
3. Answer the questions about the text (sent home on paper today today).
4. Bring your completed work into school on Monday.

Writing (Years 5 & 6)

Write a draft dialogue (conversation) between Dionysus and King Midas.

1. Watch this short film for inspiration. King Midas.
2. Write a dialogue between King Midas and Dionysus. You can use your imagination here.
3. Before you start to write your draft, refresh your memory about how to punctuate speech. 
4. Write your speech. Remember when you write a draft, you need to focus on the quality of the content.
5. Once you have your ideas written down, you can check and correct any spelling errors and review your speech punctuation.
6. You should have a quality draft text now, which you can bring into school on Monday for our English lesson, where we will continue to work on them and make them shine like a polished pebble!

Spellings (Years 5 & 6)

We are currently looking at words ending in -ous. More information about these words can be found on the spelling section of this page. We will have a re-test on these words towards the end of next week – no earlier than Wednesday.