This week for your homework, you need to research a famous inventor. You can present your research however you wish- you could write a report, make a Powerpoint presentation, make a video or song, create a poster or model... Use your imagination!
Remember, you msut avoid plagiarism! You cannot copy (or copy and paste) information exactly as you find it in a book or on the internet. You MUST write your research into your own words, just like we do with Genius Time. We will always be able to spot copied information!
Each week, you will receive English and Maths homework on a Friday.
English homework will have two parts: grammar and reading comprehension. It is due back in on Tuesday.
Maths homework will be due back in on Wednesday.
If you need help with your homework, please come and talk to one of us as soon as possible- do not leave it until the day it is due back in!
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You also need to be reading every day and practising your times tables. When we did some times tables last week, it was clear that lots of you need to get working on them! You should be able to answer any times table question up to 12 x 12, without needing to work them out or count on your fingers. It will make all of your Maths lessons and homework, much easier!
Try these fun games to help you with becoming super speedy at times tables!
We have been so busy in St. Clare's in the last few weeks! It has been a very fun time- with lots of special activities. With our 'One World' theme at school, we have had many celebratory events- we enjoyed our 'Walk for Africa' in Dulwich Park, which has raised £2555 in sponsorship money so far for the children's home in Zambia that we support each year. If you haven't brought in your sponsorship money yet, please do so as soon as possible!
We also had a fabulous dance workshop. We learned some yoga and some Indian dance- along with lots of exciting stories! We sang most of the music ourselves, so learned some new words and sounds too.
Last Friday was a very exciting day for us- we saw our French penpals again! The children and teachers from St. Vaast arrived at 9:15am and once they had settled in, we all had a very British breakfast in the hall, with scones (with cream and jam!), fruit and juice.
After breakfast, we headed out to show our penpals our local area. We walked to Dulwich Park, through the park and then through the gardens of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Our penpals were excited to see the red London telephone box and were interested to hear how the design of its roof came about!
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We visited the courtyard at Christ's Chapel of God's Gift and saw the war memorial and statue of Edward Alleyn.
Then we walked through Dulwich Village and showed them the post office, restaurants and bakery.
On returning to school we played some games in the playground, including a hotly-contested football match! The children from St. Vaast were very excited by our Action Station and Trim Trail.
After some playtime, we had a lovely British lunch of fish and chips. We helped our penpals to ask the kitchen staff for their lunch in English and say 'please' and 'thank you'. They did brilliantly!
After lunch, the weather had turned very British... it was pouring with rain! Our penpals joined us in our classrooms for wet play and enjoyed drawing pictures and playing board games with their English friends.
Next, we all went to the Small Hall, where our penpals presented us with some beautiful gifts that they had made us. At 2:30, we joined the whole school for a special 'One World' assembly. Every class performed or showed something they had made from the country they have been studying. We performed our Japanese Yosakoi dance and St. John's sang a beautiful Indian song.
To end the assembly, Year 5 from St. Anthony's and their penpals from St. Vaast all stood up together to sing a popular current French song which is raising money for UNICEF- 'On ecrit sur les murs'. It was a moving and wonderful performance and a lovely way to end our day together.
We will post some pictures from our day together next week.
Also, we would like to invite you all, with your parents, carers and families to a special presentation of photographs from our trip to France on Thursday 7th July at 8:30am in the hall.
For homework this week, you are writing your final letter to your French penpal. Remember to decorate it and make it look wonderful- this is your last chance to write to them this year, as they are near to their summer holidays now!
This week, you are practising changing between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
An Improper Fraction has a top number
larger than (or equal to) the bottom number.
It is "top-heavy"
Eg. 24/6 or 12/5
A Mixed Number has a whole number and a proper fraction together : Eg. 1 1/2 or 4 3/4
This website has lots of help for changing from one to the other. Click the picture below to visit the helpful site:
Next week in school we will be celebrating our annual Friendship Week!
On Friday, the whole school will be participating in a special assembly to think about friendship at St. Anthony's.
Upper School will be performing a rendition of a famous song called 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers. Your homework this week is to make sure that you have learned the lyrics to the song, ready to start rehearsing on Monday. You have a copy of the lyrics to bring home with you today, which is marked to show the sections you particularly need to know.
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If you would like to hear the song to help you to learn the tune, you can find many videos (some with kareoke lyrics!) on Youtube; simply search Bill Withers 'Lean on Me'. Ask an adult at home to help you find the video, then perhaps you could perform your song to them! Have fun!
This week, your homework challenge is to write a 500 word short story for a competition. If your story is chosen as one of the winners, it will be included in a brand new professionally staged show performed at the Polka Theatre! Wow!
You need to bring the photos to life by writing a story inspired by them.
Please bring your story into school before Tuesday- do not send your entry off to the address on the website. We will check them and send them all off together.
The rules to follow:
The story cannot be longer than 500 words.
You must type or neatly handwrite your story. If the judges can't read it, they can't judge it!
The story must be inspired by the photographs.
On the front page of your story please write the title of your story,
plus your full name, school, year group and age. Please provide the contact
details (address, phone number and email) of an adult we can contact if
you are one of the shortlisted stories - either a teacher or family
member.
It must be your own, original work.
Top Tips!
Make sure your story has a clear beginning, middle and end.
Use some exciting language- amazing adjectives, adverbs and connectives.
As you only have 500 words, keep the story simple and don't have too many characters.
Play this fun game to put a flower together, then label the parts. It will help remind you of all the things you need to include in your poem/song/rap to teach other children about the parts of a flower:
This week, you are researching the Jewish festival of Sukkot for your homework. We have already had some wonderful homework handed in- some of you have even made models of sukkahs!
If you are still working on your homework, here are some useful links. Remember- do not copy and paste information from websites- your teachers are very clever and we can always tell!
Click here to watch a BBC video clip called 'A Jewish Boy's Sukkot' to see how Adam celebrates Sukkot:
Please remember the chat we have had about the presentation of your homework and the effort that you should be putting into your work. Make sure you tell us which type of angle each missing angle is (acute, right, obtuse), then show us your working out to demonstrate how you calculated the size of the angle.
Eg.
This is an obtuse angle.
180 - 25 = 155 degrees.
If you have a protractor at home, you can check that your calculations are correct.
Special congratulations to these children who went above and beyond what was expected of them in their Maths homework this week. Each of these children presented their homework neatly and clearly, showing the care they had put into their work. They completed detailed calculations and showed their working out in each section of the Holiday Homework Challenge!
Very well done to:
Blessie
Jada
Justin
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Stephanie
Maria
Fantastic work! You will each get a bonus Class Dojo point this week for the effort you put into your homework! Well done!
Today you were given your homework challenges for the next three weeks. You will be researching the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci!
Here are some useful links, which might help with the three sections of your challenge. Remember our e-safety lesson- do not go to any other websites without the permission of an adult and close the window and tell an adult if you see anything inappropriate.
DO NOT simply copy information from Wikipedia, or any other site! Put what you have found into your own words, so that we can see what you have understood.
Watch this video from the BBC; Dick and Dom discover the scientific work of Leonardo Da Vinci:
Take a look at this wonderful piece of work by Cesar! He drew a Titanic story at home, which shows what happened to the Titanic step-by-step.
We were all so impressed by his hard work- we could see that he spent a lot of time on this at home. Mrs Day thought it was wonderful too! Very well done, Cesar!
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will need to fill in this form with an adult, who will need to enter an
email address.
Here are some top tips for your story:
Remember your structure- it needs a beginning, middle and end. Draw yourself a story mountain to help you plan this, or look at the picture below.
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Choose your words carefully.
You only have 500 words, so pick them wisely! Don't waste your 500
words on boring words like happy, sad, nice, said, then or walk. You can
do better! Use powerful adjectives and verbs.
Create an interesting hero/main character. You only have 500 words, so you don't want to include too many characters. Keep it simple but entertaining!
There
are some great examples on the Radio 2 website- click the picture below
to read the winning entries in your category for the last few years.
Don't copy them though- the judges will remember them! You can do even
better!
