Homework Expectations at Broadford Primary School

 

At Broadford Primary School we believe homework is about balance.

We understand that homework can be an ideal opportunity for consolidation for some, a battle for others, an opportunity for creativity for some of our pupils or quality time for carer and child in what can often be a very busy week.

Daily Homework Expectations

There are home-based tasks that we know help your child at school.  These are fundamental and must be completed every day.  Please speak to your class teacher if you need guidance.

These are 'on average' expectations:
- 15 minutes of reading per night (EYFS. KS1 and KS2)
- 15 minutes of mathematics per night (KS1 & KS2)
- 15 minutes of spelling per night (KS1 & KS2)

Other Learning Opportunities at Home - optional

Click on the year group link to take you to to a booklet of home-based learning.  It contains ideas linked to reading, maths and other areas of learning.  

Nursery	Rec'	Year 1	Year 2
Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6

Y1 - Y2: Homework Bingo - optional

We understand children have commitments outside of school but if you have time, children in KS1 are encouraged to take part in 4 or more learning tasks from the Bingo cards at home.  This will be celebrated at school.  Please follow this link for this term's Homework Bingo.

Y3 - Y6: Worldly Wise Challenge - optional

Children in KS2 take part in weekly Worldly Wise assemblies where they learn 'a little about a lot'.  The Worldly Wise Challenge is an opportunity for children to carry out further research linked to the half termly topic.  Please follow this link for more information on this term's topic.

Fact Hunter and SPAG Detectives - optional

Each week, children can solve a SPAG error or complete their own research for an interesting fact on a given topic (click here to see this term's).  In recognition of applying SPaG skills to real life situations and investigating crimes against the English Language AND in recognition of insatiable appetite for knowledge

and ability to sniff out amazing facts, children will be celebrated in school with their peers.  

Worldly Wise - Optional Homework

 

Every week, pupils have a 'Worldly Wise' assembly where they build and grow their own body of general knowledge.  By knowing a little about a lot they will be able to place events and ideas in context in a variety of different situations.

Last half term, children found out about National Cuisines....it was very interesting! 

The 'Worldly Wise' Challenge is an opportunity for pupils to complete further research and tasks linked to the half termly topic.  There are separate activities for Y3/4 (green sheet) and Y5/6 (blue sheet).  They can do as many tasks as they like and do not have to link to the landmarks we have explored in school but can be any landmark that sparks their interest. A copy of the challenges will be sent home this week.

This is optional, and on top of their daily 15 minutes of reading, 15 minutes of spelling practice and 15 minutes of times tables practice.  

The pupils will receive a special 'Worldly Wise Challenge' certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort and challenge undertaken by the individual child.

You pick what you research; you're in control!  

We cannot wait to see where your learning takes you!

Year 3 and 4 Challenge

 Year 5 and 6 Challenge

Votes for Schools Results and New Question

 

Year 5 Spellings 30.1.23

 

A		B		C
1	immediately	1	immediately	1	bad
2	suggest	2	suggest	2	better
3	recommend	3	recommend	3	fly
4	necessary	4	necessary	4	hard
5	programme	5	programme	5	much
6	muscle	6	appetite	6	stopped
7	disastrous	7	terror	7	white
8	neighbour	8	arrival	8	would
9	interfere	9	terrace	9	right
10	convenience	10	fossil	10	must
11	correspond	11	surprise
12	explanation	12	woman
13	privilege	13	special
14	sacrifice	14	possess
15	restaurant	15	strength
16	authority	16	authority
17	wisdom	17	wisdom
18	guidance	18	guidance
19	supreme	19	supreme
20	ultimate	20	ultimate

Year 5 Remarkable RE

This week in Year 5 we had looked at Religious Rituals in RE. In particular we had looked at Christianity and the ritual of baptism, although we did get to discuss some other rituals we have all experienced from different religions. An example of this was Zakat (The second pillar of Islam) and how there is the ritual of giving for charity. We had also looked into what the bible say's about baptism and how Christians use this as a source of wisdom and a teaching code for living. 

We had used Reflectiveness in making links back to previous learning and our Reciprocity value for sharing our own experiences of rituals we may have seen such as weddings, funerals and christenings. 

Redwood

"Wait! Hindu's use a river to get Baptised?" - Osayande

“It is interesting how there are different ways of baptising someone by sprinkling water or fully immersing them!” Faizah O

The water symbolises anything bad being washed away. Isla, Maple

Year 6 Certificates & Information 27.1.23

It's coming closer to the halfway point in Year 6 and the children are making us incredibly proud by showing us how hard they can work and how much progress they can make.

Next week, we will be having a practice SATS week so we can inform you at parents evening of exactly how much progress your child has made.

If you haven't booked your appointment yet please book here

Please be aware that the school is closed on Wednesday 1st March, if there should be any changes to strike action you will be informed. 

 Almond

E for E - Noah

Star Writer - Nicole

Teacher Happy - Izaan, Jazzneet and Adrian L

Lime

E for E - Keira 

Star Writer - Robyn

Reflective ness - Madalina

Resourcefulness  - Richie

Resilience - Riley

Teacher Happy - Taylor

Oak

E for E - Tyler

Star Writer - Happiness

Cracking Computing in Year 6

 

Year 6 have been identifying variables in a program and exploring the impact to a game if a variable was changed by name or by value. We used a sport that we love to explore this further... Football!

The children used the worlds largest coding community- Scratch- to problem solve a game where values wouldn't change on the scoreboard. They also created their own scoreboard for football teams of their choice and created their own clicking battle game.

"I'm going to decrease the score variable for Tottenham- each goal will be minus 1!" - Aimee in Lime

"We've created our own game- it's just like cookie clicker but better." - David in Oak