Homework should be completed by Wednesday 16th February. As usual, please either Mrs Bernasconi or Mrs Benson know before then if you need help.

This week all of Blue have a Comprehension assigned on Classroom Secrets Kids. Classroomsecrets Kids This is a biography as we have been focusing on this type of text in English.

Year 5’s Maths homework is also on Classroom Secrets Kids – there should be two activities on Kilograms and Kilometres.Classroomsecrets Kids

Year 6 have two pages from their CPG books – p55 and p56. This revises conversion of units of measure.

These WhiteRose videos (which they provide for home learning) will help if Year 5 or 6 feel they need some support with their homework.

 English Year 5 and 6 

Well done for completing the comprehension last week; I know it took some of you quite a long time but you will get faster with practice. I was impressed by your scores!

This week I have set an exercise on Classroom Secrets Kids on the  perfect tense which we have looked at in class this week. Watch the video tutorial that i have also assigned so you are really confident before tackling the exercise.

Maths Year 5 

Your homework is on Purple Mash and is an exercise on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 which you focussed on earlier this week with Mrs Bernasconi. The exercise won’t register the answer if you get it wrong so try again.

Maths year 6 

Pages from your Maths CGP book focussing on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 and 1000, and dividing and multiplying using decimals.

Remember  all homework needs to be completed by Wednesday. It is a good idea to try before Tuesday in case you have any difficulties. 

Today we are starting a new English unit on biographies – it is titled The Undefeated and is based in the poem by Kwame Alexander .

Today we are looking at part of a biography on Jesse Owens – a famous athlete who was alive before the Second World War.

Read  Berlin Olympic1936 from  the resources and answer the questions.

Berlin Olympics version 1 comprehension