Home Learning #9

Talk Home Learning

• Tell people at home about your story (your version of the Prince and the Flying Carpet). If you can say it, you can write it.

Reading

• Keep reading at home. Get it signed in your home school diaries

Extras

Formula 1

• Watch Lewis win (hopefully) the world championship. 
• Read this article on the BBC - Nico accepted Second - Lewis cried

Home Learning #8

Debate Club

• Get your essays in for Friday

Moon Diaries

• Keep looking at the sky

Spellings

• Show three people your words to log and learn

Reading

• Keep reading. Winners read!

Extras

Stuff 

• Learn to tie a tie

Rugby

• Watch England play South Africa

Fantasy Football

• I have made some changes to my team and am climbing the league
• http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/88758/standings/
• Can you compete against me (I doubt it!)

Espresso Coding

• Be awesome and learn to code
• I sent you the log in details by email

Home Learning #7

Maths

• Show your test papers to three people. Tell them how you worked out the answers

Moon Diaries

• The moon on Tuesday was awesome. Hope you saw it. This week, more than ever, I know you will have been looking at the skies. Hopefully it will be clear enough to see the moon.

Debate Club

• Deadline: 21st November

Reading

• Keep track of your reading.
• The person with the highest minutes reading (signed by an adult) wins a golden ticket
• One house point for a full week signed.

Spellings

• Show people your words to log and learn

Extras - This is stuff you don't have to do but can if you want

Class Assembly

• We will learn it in class but if you have time to practice that will only make it better

Skoolbo

• Download the app - School Code 474ZH
• Your password is Black and a Bee
• You need to change it once you have logged in.

Maths

• Well done for dominating on Manga High over the holidays. The 32 of you beat a High School and Sixth Form with 600+ pupils - Its the winning that counts!
• I've put on some new challenges related to this weeks learning

Rugby

• Watch this if you can (I don't think its on BBC unfortunately)
• England v New Zealand 
• Saturday 14:30 (8th Nov)

Football

• This is the best goal ever scored in the history of football
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29653183
• Golden ticket for anyone who can tell me what was special about that season.

Home Learning #6

Debate Club

• Following from the fantastic debates we had this half term here are the next topics
• CLICK HERE

Talk Home Learning

• TALK to someone about your newspaper topic. 
• Who will be affected?
• Who will you interview?
• What are the main points to include (who, what, when, where, why)?

Extras

Maths

• Dominate Manga High

Skoolbo

• I'm pretty sure you can download the app free and use it at home.
• Email me if you need the school code.
• Luke and Harrison are already dominating and been able to buy themselves things like flat screen TVs and a new sofa!

Outdoor Learning

• Get outside and enjoy autumn

Other 

Can you believe that they didn't show this at the Thorpe Day. They missed out big time.

Learn some more about the crusades - this is a bit harder than last week's video.

Home Learning #5

Debate Club

• The essays are due in on the 21st October

Moon Diaries

• Hope you're all keeping your eye on the moon.

Talk Home Learning

• Next week we will be writing our own news reports for the Brundall Bugle. Talk to people at home about the event you want to cover next week in your report.

Maths

• Show your past papers to three people (that you know)

Extras

Maths

• Dominate Manga High
• Complete the teacher challenges that I set

History

Literacy

Home Learning #4

Debate Club

• Come and speak to me if you need any more help
• Deadline: 21st October

Extras

Due to feedback about the amount of homework, everything below this is extra - Only complete it if you want to.

Maths

• Play the maths game with your family

English

• Reading has two rewards
• Read everyday at home and get it signed by an adult to earn a house point. (Come on Swift!)
• Record how many minutes you read (approved by an adult). The person with the most on Friday gets a Golden Ticket

Golden Ratio

• Find the Golden Ratio in things
• e.g. measure the length of a window then divide that by the width

F1

• Watch the F1

Home Learning #3

Ha ha, you wish!


Debate Club

• Click here for your debates
• You need to write an essay on your question (about one side of A4)
• Click here for more info on essay writing
• Everyone completes the essay individually, then on Tuesday 21st October the groups come together to have a group debate.
• Deadline: 21st October

Literacy

• Reading at home - People who get a full week signed in their diaries get a house point

Maths

• Problem solving
• Bring it back by next Friday and stick it into your maths books

Moon Diaries

• Remember, you don't have to do it everyday but whenever you can. 
• If you have filled your sheet, you can come and get another one.

Trip to Baghdad

• If (and only if) you have any clothes that you can wear for our 'trip to Baghdad' then bring them in next week.
• NOTE: This is just a fictional trip back in time to ancient Baghdad.

Extras

Golden Ratio

• Find some more examples of the golden ratio

Celebrate Eid al-Adha

• Eat lots of red meat - Check out these recipes
• If you have a sheep - sacrifice it.
• 'The meat is divided into three parts: the family keeps one third; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors; and the last part is given to those in need.'
• If you can't sacrifice a sheep, see what you have in the fridge.
• Wear your finest clothes to dinner

Formula 1

• Watch Lewis win at Suzuka

Danny Macaskill

Home Learning #2

Home Learning #2

Literacy

• Poetry Anthology (See Home Learning #1)

Maths

• Finish the sheet on factors and multiples
• Deadline: 19th September
• Bring it in and stick it into your books by next Friday

Science

• Moon Diary

Extras - Non Essential Home Learning

Drama

• Prepare for our trip to Baghdad (Tuesday)
• Read about your character and think about what they will do on their day in Baghdad

Project Manager

• You need to be able to tie a tie to be a project manager.

Home Learning #1

Home Learning #1

Poetry Anthology

• Find a collection of poems (More than 7)
• This could be based on a theme (such as pets), be by one author or just ones that you like.
• Decorate them
• Make them into a small booklet

Deadline: Friday 26th September

Moon Diary

• Fill in your moon diary
• You only need to complete a two or three days a week - just whenever you can see the moon clearly enough to draw it and make some observations

Extras (You do NOT have to do these thing)

Maths outside the classroom

• I'm looking for examples of maths outside the classroom to pin on our maths working wall.
• Bring in any evidence of times you have needed to use your maths skills
• I'll find some examples to pin up and get the ball rolling.

Plants

• We need some plant life in our classroom. I am looking for three plants to live on our window ledges. 
• They need to be indoor plants that are not too big (they need to fit on the window ledges)
• If anyone has a spare house plant that they are willing to lend to the class for the year speak to me.

Tulips

• If anyone has any SPARE tulip bulbs then please can they bring them in
• Please do not go out and buy any especially. I just wanted to plant a few and thought some of your parents might have some spare.

Manga High

• Get on Manga High at home

Khan Academy

• Play on Khan Academy at home

Emails

• Check your emails regularly

Cycling

• La Vuelta is coming to its climax - ITV4 7pm every night
• Tour of Britain starts this weekend

Fantasy Football

• Sign up
• Join the Brundall league (Code: 332567-88758)
• Watch me win

Man Utd

• Come up with the best starting 11 players for LvG

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation,
And it looks like I'm the queen.

The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried!

Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they know!

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door!

I don't care
What they're going to say
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway!

It's funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can't get to me at all!

It's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me I'm free!

Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry!

Here I stand
And here I'll stay
Let the storm rage on!

My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back,
The past is in the past!

Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone!

Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway!

Home Learning #29

Massive Project

You could cobble together a few pages of material about a country you've been to on holiday or your favourite animal (blah, blah, blah) or you could do something different. Never settle for ordinary.

Here are some of the ideas that I was ranting about:

• Make a website
• Start a business (research, development, advertising, sales, finance)
• Create an app (you don't even have to make it, it could be hypothetical - research, design and market it)
• Design a range of clothes
• Learn an instrument and write a daily blog about what you do
• Actually create a show garden at home (i.e. RHS Chelsea - you can even submit your idea to next years show)
• Make a movie (not just a 5 min clip - something special)
• Create a YouTube channel teaching people about something good (e.g. cooking, bike maintenance, etc...)
• Investigate the effects of gravity (with objects - not yourself)
• Make a recipe book and cook for your family
• Create a proper computer game 
• Make a board game
• Build a sculpture trail
• Solve one of the longitude prize problems and win £10 million
• The guy who won the first one spent 40 years researching it. You might need to start now.
• Write an anthology of poems
• If you are going to research a country or topic then make it interesting, e.g.:
• Study Babylonian culture and make a massive Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Research Egypt and mummify a cat (or pretend)
• Write a novel (not a story, a novel)

I could go on. Just think of something a bit different. Writing about 20 pages about Australia is fine (for other classes) but you guys are better than that. Always think outside the box.

The only rule is: it must be 7 weeks worth of homework. It says somewhere how long you should spend per week - I should probably know - but I imagine its about 2 -3 hours. Therefore 2 - 3 hours x 7 = Somewhere between 14 and 21 hours work. Not 2 hours the night before.

Home Learning #28

SATS

• Exercise
• It is essential that you are in a mood to concentrate. Get out of the house and move. Its going to be a wet weekend so:
• Go swimming.
• Go and do a parkrun
• Fritton
• Gorleston
• Put a coat on and do one of the 50 things on the Norfolk Coast
• Eat a good breakfast
• Chill out
• You should look at some revision/past papers but DON'T over do it. 
• ~30 mins per subject (reading, SPAG and maths)

Spellings

• Shakespeare off by heart
• Words

Home-School Diaries

• Some people are still not bringing in their home-school diaries. You must have them with you everyday.

Extras

Women's Tour

• Watch it on TV - ITV 4
• Go and watch it live
• Come and watch the final stage in Bury St Edmunds
• CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

Giro d'Italia

• Who will win the first stage?

Revision

Home Learning #27

YOU MUST BRING YOUR HOME-SCHOOL DIARIES IN TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!

Failure to do so will result in a purple card - You have been warned!

Maths

• The maths papers will be coming home after we have been through them in class
• Show them to three people

Literacy

• Spellings
• Shakespeare Off by Heart
• Words
• BTW Spellings count for 29% of your SPAG mark

Home Learning Project

• Next half term we will be doing free choice home learning projects.
• Think about what you might like to study for an entire half term of home learning

Extras

• What is going on in Belfast next Friday?
• There is a house point for everyone who signs up to the Velogames league
• League Name: Brundall Primary
  League Code: 02135325

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Home Learning #26

Mock Exams

• Next week are the mock exams. We will be doing the test as if they are the real thing as a practice. 
• Over the weekend - Get some exercise
• On Sunday night - Get some sleep. 
• In the morning (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs) - Eat breakfast. You will not do your best without a proper meal in the morning.

Maths

• Money Problems
• When you go shopping work out the bill.
• Classic question: If I buy [three things] and pay with £10 how much change will I get?
• Manga High
• I've set some challenges for you

Literacy

• Spellings
• Shakespeare off by heart
• Words
• Reading
• Read a chapter of a book and tell three people about it
• Read someone's blog and comment on it.

SPAG

• Open a book (on any page)
• Count the number of:
• Inverted commas
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Verbs
• Compare this to another type of book. What do you notice?

Level 6 Reading

• I've emailed some things to do.

Extras

Norfolk Cycling Academy

• Go to this special event at Yarmouth

What is the link between these videos?

Home Learning #25

Literacy

• Read
• Read, read, read
• Get someone to ask you questions about what you are reading
• Here are some generic questions
• We will be doing a book review when we get back
• Blog
• Blog about everything that you get up to (on your own blog - not the Dodos' Blog)
• Spellings
• Off by heart Shakespeare
• Words

Maths

• Past Papers
• Show the ones we have completed to three people
• Complete the two that went home
• Bring them back into school - Winners bring them back

SPAG

• Past Paper practice
• Enjoy -  Winners bring them back

Debate Club

• There will be no debate club until after the SATs 
• This will give you more time to revise
• If you are not in the winners list - take this opportunity to catch up and do some of the bits you missed

Extras

• What is Brit Pop?
• Click Here
• Norfolk Cycle Show
• Norfolk Cycling Academy - Some dates announced

Home Learning #24

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• Practice your presentation 50 times
• 20 times on your own
• 5 times to three different people
• Skype/Facetime/Flashmeet your friends for the remaining 15 times (Or just go round to their house like people used to do)
• Spellings
• Off By Heart Shakespeare
• Macbeth - The Raven

Debate Club

• DEADLINE: Friday 4th 

TED

• Make sure people know to come on Thursday
• 09:00 in the hall
• Watch some of these videos on the playlist

Extras

Onesie

• Don't forget Onesie Friday

Cycling

• Le Tour is coming - Watch this video

Charity

• Read this

Home Learning #23

Maths

• Past papers - show them to three people

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• There is NO Big Writing next Friday
• We are going to start working on our TED presentations. Your talk home learning is to: 
• Talk to your family about your invention
• Read the spellings from last week for some pointers on what you need to talk about
• Spellings
• CLICK HERE
• Shakespeare's Sonnets 18 and 33
• SPAG
• Preposition Trail
• Find examples of prepositions in the things you read
• Reading
• Read a book to someone else

Debate Club

• Remember, I'm going to start clamping down on inadequate levels of work. This is three weeks worth of home learning - make sure it looks like you have done that amount or you won't be on the list of winners.

Parent Share Day

• Tuesday 09:00 - Bring a grown up

TED

• Bring in materials for making a prototype
• If you don't have something you need, add it to the list and hopefully someone else will be able to get it for you.
• TED Live (March 17 - 21)
• I hope you have all been watching these this week.

Extras

Cycling

• The Spring Classics - Which one sounds the best.
• Can you guess which one I like the best? (I have already mentioned it in class for those who were paying attention)

Videos to Watch

• For some reason I can't embed this videos from TED at the moment, but here's the link
• CLICK HERE - Its a guy with a drum
• This one you have to watch CLICK HERE - Its all about creativity and stealing things; what I'm always banging on about but he just says it much better.

• Watch this kid speaking loads of languages. 

Home Learning #22

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• I want you to persuade people to buy your invention.
• This is the sort of thing you are going to need in your TED presentation
• Spellings
• Back by popular demand
• CLICK HERE
• This is an important thing to read, even if you don't learn the spellings
• There are a few American spellings in here - can you spot them?
• Six of the spellings will be from the first three points
• Grammar Goggles

• Find six examples of an article in things you read.
• Get people at home to look as well.
• Think about getting a mix of indefinite articles and definite articles

Maths

• Mental Maths are coming home if we can find the transcript
• Hopefully the other papers are also on their way home as well.

Debate Club

• The theme is Easter - if you need some help speak to someone who knows about the festival. Mrs Wilson is a good start at school but you might know someone else at home.

TED Brundall

• Invite more people
• Prototypes
• We need to start thinking about building the prototypes
• Begin gathering materials that can be used to create your product - like recyclable junk such as empty plastic bottles and boxes etc...

Extras

Blog

• Get on the Pick of the Week and earn a golden ticket

Rugby

• Exciting end to the Six Nations
• Sat 15th
• Italy v England - 12:45
• Wales v Scotland - 14:45
• France v Ireland - 17:00

Home Learning #21

TED Brundall

• Invite four people to TED Brundall
• 09:00 -10:30 3rd April
• Make sure your invention ideas are up to scratch

SPAG

• This time, the tests really are going home.
• Show them to three people

Maths

• Same as the SPAG, they really are going home this week.
• Show them to three people
• Test your family

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• We are in urgent need of reports for the Brundall Bugle
• Next week's Big Writing will be a report about something that has happened at school.
• E.g. Norwich trip, World Book Day, Rugby Tournament, Swimming Gala, International Women's Day, Outdoor learning, Big Writing, Parents' Evening, Aspirations Week, Bikeability, TED Brundall, E-Safety, Pupil Council,

Debate Club

• See you debates here
• Deadline: 4th April

Extras

Rugby

• England v Wales
• Sunday 15:00

Blog

• Write a blog about what you do at the weekend. Can you use all the features of SPAG in your writing?
• SPAG Slide Show

Music

• Go on the saxophone website
• Norfolk Music Service Online

Maths

• Write this as an equation for Amy's maths book
• If three penguins do 4 poos per hour, how many do six penguins do in two hours

Home Learning #20

Jens Voigt

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• The big writing will be: Instructions of using your invention
• Talk to people about how you will use your invention. Step by step instructions
• SPAG
• Show three people your SPAG test
• Challenge them, see if they can do any better. I bet people at home don't know some of the questions in it.

Maths

• Mental Maths is coming home
• Test your family

Debate Club

• You should be well on your way with the essay
• Speak to people at home - the answers are in their heads. If you speak to people, they will be able to help you

Extras

Autodidact

• I saw this today on the BBC; it's just what we were talking about.

Get Inspired

• Rugby Union
• Watch this about Courtney Lawes
• BBC Get Inspired
• Find out where to play - Rugby Union 
• Norwich Lions

Home Learning #19

Debate Club

• Essay Deadline: 7th March
• You all chose a debate on Friday
• (Click Here)

Aspirations 

• Talk Home Learning: Thank you letter
• Talk about what you will write in your thank you letter.
• You will write to the place you were assigned to ask questions at. For instance Jack will write to the councillors we met at City Hall

• Watch the video

• Visit Pedal Revolution
• They were kind enough to let us visit but we ran out of time.
• I told them you'd visit as part of your home learning

• Become an Olympic Champion
• Lizzy Yarnold
• She would have been great for Aspirations Week but she won just a few hours too late.
• Skeleton
• Could you be the next Olympic champion? 
• Girls4Gold Canoeing? (You're a bit young at the moment but keep your eye on this)
• Norfolk Cycling Academy - When they start the coaching again I will start pestering you to go.
• Rugby - It is now going to be an Olympic sport
• Athletics

Home Learning #18

Maths

• Manga High
• OMG - We're in a Fai-To with an American school
• Our national pride is at stake, all hands on deck. I've set some challenges

• Test papers will be going home sometime next week.
• Show them to three people

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• Story Writing
• In big writing next week we will be writing a story involving an invention
• You can make this up completely
• It could be about:
• Your invention
• Someone else's invention
• Spellings
• Click Here
• SPAG
• Nouns
• Reading
• You should be keeping a diary of your reading at home
• If you get it signed all week you'll get two house points.

Extras

• Anti-Home Learning
• Do not think about the jet stream

• Winter Olympics
• 
  
• Six Nations
• Watch this
• Its time for the Calcutta Cup
• What is the Calcutta Cup? Why is it called this?
• Write a blog about it.
• What are your views on independence?
• 
  

• Football
• I know we don't talk about football but have a look at this.
• CLICK HERE

Home Learning #17

Maths

• This time, the papers are definitely going home this week.
• Maths A
• Maths B
• Mental maths - We have attached the questions so you can test your family

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• Talk about your inventors (ideally focusing on one)
• We are going to write a biography of an inventor for Big Writing
• (Auto)Biographies
• Read some autobiographies and biographies. This will help with the Big Writing and will also be helpful for special week
• Spellings
• CLICK HERE - Read this; it will help you with your talk home learning
• SPAG
• Complex sentences

Debate Club

• Debates are this Friday - Make sure you have your essay ready

Class Assembly

• Costumes - As discussed, dress like the Dragons' Den. 
• Shirt and tie
• School shirt will do. I have some ties but not enough for the whole class. If you could bring one in then that would be excellent.
• If you have a suit/waist coat etc... brilliant but it is not essential.

Extras

Videos

• Watch this - CLICK HERE

Home Learning #16

Literacy

• Talk Home Learning
• Newspapers - Write a news report about the launch of your invention
• Imagine you have just launched your invention at CES 2014
• Have a look at these examples:
• Snore Proof Bed; Bendable TV; Yahoo News App
• Spellings
• Tag Rugby
• Reading
• Autobiographies
• SPAG
• Speech

Maths

• The recent tests will be going home this week
• Show them to three people

Debate Club

• Crack on with your essay

Extras

Inventors

• Show people your inventors slide show
• Update your slide show
• Prepare for next week in creating the class assembly

Home Learning #15

Literacy

• Talk home learning
• Explanation - Describe your invention

• Spellings and SPAG (2 in 1)
• CLICK HERE

Debate Club

• CLICK HERE
• Deadline: 31st January

Extras

• Class Assembly 
• Ideas for the play

• Message to Annabelle
• Email me with your message or just complete it on the laptop in class at some point.