Literacy
- Idea Generation
- Complete your ideas poster
Maths
- Christmas Maths
- Invent some challenging Christmas maths questions
- Here are some examples:
- Green - If there are 5 people at the table and everyone eats 6 sprouts, how many sprouts do we need?
- Amber - There are 37.5 million Christians in the UK. If Santa gives everyone a three presents, how many will he give out?
- Red - If the circumference of the chimney is ___ cm then what is the radius of Santa?
- Black -
- Your challenge is to come up with more of your own
- Keep a diary or write it on your blog. Why not include some pictures
- Manga High
- Make sure we beat that other school
- We pretty much have beaten them but just make sure we finish them off
Extras
- Musescore
- This site has loads of free music on.
- Following our recent amazing performance in the carol concert, you'll be pleased to hear that the trumpet will make a comeback next year.
- TASK:
- Find a song that we can duet or play as a group.
- Even if you don't play, find a song and you can sing it whilst we play
- Click here for instructions how to use it the web site
- Alistair
- Write a sentence explaining the meaning of empathy
- Anyone can help Alistair with this.
Debate Club
- Debates next Friday
- Essay due in the same day
- Make sure you are handing in an 'essay', not just some notes scrawled on some paper. If you have any problems with it, tell me now - not on the day you need to hand it in. The worst excuses recently:
- "I didn't have any paper" - ANSWER: You are welcome to use as much from school as you need
- "I didn't have the internet" - ANSWER: I have told you in class what you are doing; you can ask me at any point if you have forgotten; you don't need the internet to research these debates - just ask people.
- "I was too busy" - ANSWER: No you weren't. Even if you are doing something every day after school and at weekends, you can always find at least one hour per week to do some home learning. You are going to high school next year and, although you might not believe me yet, you will be receiving about 4 times more homework than you currently get. Start getting into the habit of making time now!
- "I forgot" - ANSWER: Man up! Welcome to the list of shame!
Maths
- Show three people the Big Maths sheets
- Brag about your performance
- Challenge someone in your family to complete some of the questions
- Laugh at them as they struggle then show them how to work it out.
Literacy
- I'm not going to be testing spellings on the last Friday before Christmas. Even I'm not that mean!
Extras
Anti Home Learning
- This is definitely anti home learning; DO NOT try this at home - but it is really cool
Debate Club
- Research
your essay question
- Speak
to people. Ask friends and family about what they think.
Literacy
- Spellings
- We
missed spellings due to the Christmas rehearsal and (surprise, surprise)
we weren't all here to go through the SPAG.
- Therefore,
I am going to let you off and we will just do the spelling from last week
next Friday.
Maths
- Khan Academy
- Amy stormed away with the challenge last week (49,892 points), followed in second place by Alistair.
- Who can knock her off her top spot.
Anti Home Learning
- DO
NOT think about tides
- If
you hear people talking about the recent tidal floods, DO NOT listen.
- DO
NOT think about what causes tides.
- Under
no circumstance must you even look at the moon (There isn’t much of it to
see at the moment anyway – but it will become more visible shortly so DON’T
LOOK)
Christmas Songs
- Learn the songs for the Christmas production
- This version has extra verses but you get the idea
- Three Kings
- This one has disabled embedding so you'll have to click the link
- I think he goes a bit rogue at the end as well but never mind. If anyone asks, we've practised these loads.
Extras
- Sainsbury’s
Centre for Visual Arts
- Take
three people to the Sainsbury’s Centre
- Its
free to go into the main collection but well worth the money to see the
Masterpieces exhibition.
- Show
off how much you know about art
- Stand
around, stroke your chin and talk about the artist’s use of light
- Ashes
- Another
miserable start to this test but we will remain positive. Read Nathan’s
blog about the Ashes.
- This guy is destroying England. What do you think of him? Is he a nice guy?
- Christmas Number 1
- Check out this guy. What do you reckon to his chances of becoming Christmas Number 1?
