Homework will be set on this page every week on Monday.
Spellings will be tested the following Monday.
Any homework to hand in should be done on a Monday.
There will be a menu here in due course. The idea is that you can pick one item each week when it suits you best and bring it in on a Monday. You do not have to do them all and you do not have to do them in order.
Summer Term
Homework Menu - Try to pick one thing each week to have a go at:
Make a model of a Tudor house (no taller than 15cm)
Research Tudor medicine and make a "Doctor's Guide"
Find out about Tudor food, design a menu for a poor and a rich person
Research a famous Tudor Explorer and make an information sheet to tell others about him.
Draw a picture of Queen Elizabeth I and write a list of facts about her around it.
Research crime and punishments from Tudor times and decide if any of them should still be used today and if so, what for.
Make a model of a boat from Tudor times which might have been used in the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Research how potatoes came to Europe
WB 16/5/22
Spellings
Group A: channelled, compelled, controlled, equalled, excelled, fuelled, squirrelled, grovelled, quarrelled, signalled T5P3U14
Group B: because, bruise, browse, cleanse, disease, exercise, lose, pause, praise, surprise T3P2U15
Group C : the, that, there, then, this, them, when, what, where, with 100 HFW
Anything else you fancy from the menu. We've only got one boat and two houses so far, in case you wanted to add to the Tudor town or British fleet sent to beat the Spanish Armada.
WB 9/5/22
Spellings
Group A+ B :Monkeys, mummies, dreams, brushes, foxes, buses, churches, volcanoes, scarves, armies (various plural rules)
Group C : house, people, their, about, said, what, went, came, come, little (100 HF words)
Try to do something from the homework menu above
Do your tables test at home and see how long it takes you to complete all of it correctly.
WB 2/5/22
Spellings
Group A+B: dropping, dragged, hoping, coping, shedding, cutting, parachuting, parachuted, shipped, clapped
Group C: of, this, looked, old, I, out, see, house, from, what
Please try to improve your tables by playing Times Tables Rock Stars
Also try and complete one of the items on the homework menu
WB 25/4/22
Spellings
Group A: conclusion, concoct, connect, conform, consider, contact, contain, contest, contract, contributeT5P2U13
Group B: collapse, course, false, glimpse, immense, loose, suspense, tortoise, universe, worse T3P2U14
Group C : what, there, out, this, have, went, looked, very, don’t, come 100 HF words
Please try and complete one of the above topic tasks.
Also have a go at rehearsing some skills for our weekly tables test (Times Tables Rock Stars will help)
18/4/22 (This is the date these are set not when they are being tested)
Group A: commotion, community, compact, companion, company, compare, compete, compress, compose, complete T5P2U13
Group B: advance, announce, crevice, glance, menace, once, Piece, peace, pounce, surface, T3P2U14
Group C : we, can, are, up, her, my, had, what, there, out 100HF words
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Spring Term
Homework Menu Linked to Rainforests and Space
1. Create a moon diary (what the moon looks like each night for one month)
2. Research Galileo and collect 10 facts about him
3. Make a poster about the "Space Race"
4. Design your own space ship and make it out of recycled items (nothing too heavy as I'd like to suspend these from the class ceiling)
5. Make Space Top Trump Cards
6. Research an animal from the Amazon rain forest and create an information sheet about it.
7. Make Rainforest Top Trump Cards
8. Make a bar chart showing the top 10 most polluting cities in North and South America and how much damage they do to the rainforests
9. Make a poster to campaign against deforestation in the Amazon and why it should stop
10. Make a model of a rainforest creature
11. Create a diorama of a rainforests (a 3D model in a shoe box)
12. Make a crossword or word search about Space or the Rainforests
I am not setting any homework or spellings for the Easter Holiday. I believe that the children should have a break. Read when you want, write what you want but please relax.
Have a good break.
Mr C.
WB 21/3/22 (This is the date that these are set to be learned ready for the following week. It is not the date on which these words are being tested)
Spellings
Group A: collaborate, collapse, colleague, collect, college, collide, collude, commotion, community, combine T5P2U13
Group B: circus, city, cyclone, cylinder, decide, fancy, juicy, pencil, princess T3P2U13
Group C : the, that, not, look, put, and, with, then, don’t, could, 100HFW
Go on I bet some of you could try to make a diorama there are 6 great ones in class already and we're nearly at the end of the topic!
WB14/3/22
Spellings
Group A: absorb, abstain, abscond, absolute, absolve, abstract, abundant, absurd, abusive, aboriginal T5P2U12
Group B: bicycle, cancel, celebrate, celery, centre, centipede, cellar, century, certain, circle T3P2U13
Group C : what, there, have, went, out, this, be, like, some, so 100HF words
If you've not made a rainforest diorama, why not try that or an Amazon rain forest creature
7/3/22
Spellings
Group A: abdicate, abduct, abhor, abject, abnormal, abolish, abominable, abort, abrupt, absent T5P2U12
Group B: cage, bulge, change, charge, gouge, huge, large, emerge, orange, revenge T3P2U12
Group C : very, looked, see, it’s, when, big, dad, down, me, do
Please also rehearse your tables knowledge by playing a game at home to help you remember them. Try writing them down on individual cards with the answers on the back and timing yourself to see how quickly you can do them.
Please do something from the menu.
28/2/22
Spellings
Group A: foremost, foresee, foresight, foreshadow, forestall, foretell, forethought, forewarn, foreword, forward T5P2U11
Group B: allergy, angel, Egypt, energy, fragile, gentle, germ, giant, ginger, legend T3P2U12
Group C : look, don’t will, into, back, from, children, him, Mr, get
Please also learn more of the tables that you know you need to work on and you might want to enter this competition to do with the new "Fish Gate" on the Trent. There is a file at the top of the page with all the details on.
21/2/22
Spellings
Group A: forebear, foreboding, forecast, forecourt, forefather, forefront, forego, foregone, foreground, forelock T5P2U11
Group B: badge, dodge, edge, hedge, lodge, smudge, porridge, nudge, trudge, wedge T3P2U12
Group C : an, make, saw, asked, off, here, called, Mrs, help, if 100HFwords
Some people have been bringing in lots of homework from the menu but some have brought in very little. It would be lovely to see some homework from the menu from everyone this week.
WB 7/2/22
Spellings
Group A: pristine, quarantine, ravine, routine, sardine, submarine, tangerine, trampoline, tambourine, vaccine T5P1U10
Group B: cage, bulge, change, charge, gouge, huge, large, emerge, orange, revenge T3P2U12
Group C : house, old, too, by, day, made, time, I’m, if, help, 100HFW
Reading and times tables as usual
WB31/1/22
Spellings
Group A: Cuisine, chlorine, figurine, guillotine, limousine, magazine, marine, machine, plasticine, fanzine T5P1U10
Group B:allergy, angel, germ giant, Egypt, energy, ginger, legend, fragile, gentle T3P2U12
Group C : got, just, now, came, about, their people your put, could 100HF words
Reading X4 X5 minutes
WB17/1/22
Spellings:
Group A: genuine, granite, heroine, hypocrite, imagine, infinite, jasmine, justice, malice, medicine T5P1U9
Group B: early, earn, earth, heard, learn, pearl, rehearse, research, search, yearn T3P2U11
Group C : shopping, chopping, cooking, jumping, doing, tapping, hopping, dragging, dropping, dripping
Please continue with your moon diaries and try to complete one item from the homework menu and reading of course.
WB10/1/22
Spellings
Group A: Chalice, clandestine, crevice, determine, discipline, engine, examine, definite, famine, favourite T5P1U9
Group B: country, couple, courage, cousin, double, enough, encourage, flourish, nourish, rough T3P2U10
Group C: Pay, say, tray, play, may, stay, way, pray, clay, day
Carry on with your moon diary
Read X4 X5mins this week
WB3/1/22
Spellings
Group A: bathe, breathe, clothe, lathe, lithe, loathe, scathe, scythe, seethe, soothe T5P1U8
Group B: qualify, quality, quantity, quarrel, quarry, squabble, squalid, squash, swamp, swan T3P2U9
Group C : moon, soon, school, spoon, cartoon, food, roof, tool, foot, blood
Reading X 5 mins X4
Start a moon diary (draw what it looks like every night)
Show a grown up the method we are learning for multiplication
Autumn Term
13/12/21 and over Christmas
There will be no homework or spellings set over Christmas because I am not Scrooge! Have a lovely break and time with your families. Happy Christmas! Mr C.
WB 6/12/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Recap which tables you find hard, write them down and stick them up round your room.
Learn your spellings:
Group A: acre, calibre, centre, fibre, litre, manoeuvre, massacre, mediocre, metre, theatre
Group B: caught, daughter, fraught, haughty, naughty, onslaught, slaughter, taught, draught, laughter
Group C : slow, sleep, slip, slim, slime, slug, slap, slat, sling, slope
WB 29/11/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Improve your performance on TT Rock Stars
Learn your spellings
Group A: design, ensign, feign, foreign, malign, reign, resign, sign, sovereign, impugn
Group B: straight, eight, eighth, eighty, neighbour, sleigh, weigh, weight, height, sleight
Group C: tool, tooth, foot, hook, boot, wood, wool, book, moon, cook
22/11/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Play on times tables rock stars as much as possible
Learn spellings
Group A: Excellent, exceed, excerpt, excess, excited, align, assign, benign, campaign, consign
Group B: sought, thought, wrought, thorough, cough, trough, enough, rough, tough, clough
Group C :cry, creep, crawl, cream, cross, crook, crew, crib, craft, crack
15/11/21
Reading X 4 X 10 minutes
Fill in square numbers sheet
Spellings – Group A: accelerate, accept, accent, access, accident, eccentric, succeed, succinct, vaccine, successfully
Group B: through, although, doughnut, bough, drought, plough, bought, brought, fought, ought
Group C: trip, trap, tree, trim, tram, tray, trio, trot, true, try
WB 8/11/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Write down the factors of the numbers 64, 24, 18, 36 and 108 . Remember that they come in pairs (usually) and write each number down and all the factors coming off them round the sides.
Spellings:
Group A: Awry, wracked, wreath, wreckage, wretched, wrinkle, writhe, wrought, wrist, wrestle T5P1U4
Group B:whimper, whinge, whip, whirr, whisper, whisker, whistle, white, why, whither T3P2U5
Group C: drag, drop, drink, dream, dragon, still, stop, star, stand, step,
WB 1/11/21 (not to be learned until we come back after half term!)
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Play on times tables rock stars or fill in a 10 X 10 grid with your times tables as quickly as you can
Colour in a mindfulness colouring as carefully as you can
Learn your spellings:
Group A: rhapsody, rhea, rhesus, rhetorical, rhinestone, rhinoceros, rhombus, rhubarb, rhyme, rhythm T5P1U4
Group B: whale, what, wheat, wheel, wheeze, when, where, which, while, whirlpool T3P2U5
Group C: Fish, wish, wash, dish, dash, dust, must, mast, past, pest
WB 11/10/21
Reading X4 X 10 minutes
Make a game with a set of answer cards to your times tables (someone shouts out a question and the first person to touch the answer wins it - person with the most cards wins)
Learn your spellings
Group A: anguish, bilingual, equator, eloquent, guacamole, iguana, dissuade, extinguish, aquarium, frequent
Group B: become, blonde, earthquake, forgive, glove, midwife, minute, shone, type, welcome
WB 4/10/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Fill in one of this week's times tables sheets in your own time, not in 3 minutes
Learn your spellings
Group A: Retrieve, reprieve, shield, relief, mischief, diesel, believe, piece, priest, grief
Group B: exact, exam, extreme, exit, example, exist, exhaust, exotic, excuse, exhibit
WB 27/9/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Play on Times Tables Rock Stars
Learn any spoken parts for Thursday's assembly
Learn your spellings
Group A
merciful, beautiful, nastiness, angrily, ceremonies, supplies, emptiness, loneliness, prettiest, happily
Group B
amount, another, annoyed, appear, around, attack, attempt, avoid, award, away
WB20/9/21
Reading X 4 X 10 minutes
Write a grid 10 X 10 and fill in the times table facts. Ask someone to give you a number and you have to say which table it belongs to e.g.15 is from 3 X 5
Learn you spellings
Group A: caffeine, ceiling, conceive, deceit, deceive, either, neither, perceive, receive, receipt
Group B: above, about, achieve, across, address, afraid, ahead, allowed, along, among
WB13/9/21
Reading X4 X10 minutes
Try to work out which tables you don't know so well and display some round your room to help you learn them e.g. 7X8=56
Learn your spellings
Group A:
Deuce, eucalyptus, euphoria, Europe, feud, neuron, pneumatic, neutral, euphonium, pneumonia
Group B:
I’ve, they’ve, we’ve, you’ve, he’d, I’d, they’d, she’d, we’d, you'd
WB 6/9/21
Make sure that you can chant and recall all your times tables up to 5X12 really quickly.
Please read 4 times a week for at least 10 minutes.
Learn this week’s spellings:
accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached
Next week they will set by ability (all will be clear by then).
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