Weekly Homework Tasks
Friday 9th October 2015
Upper Key Stage 2 Year
ENGLISH
Friday
Monday
RECORD IN
HOMEWORK
BOOKS
MATHS
READING COMPREHENSION
Read the extract from the White Giraffe on the back of this sheet and then answer the
following questions.
1. What does ‘trepidation’ mean?
2. How can you tell there was a good atmosphere on the bus?
3. Why did Martine ‘look away guiltily’?
4. What is a ‘king’s ransom’?
GRAMMAR EXERCISE
Put a colon or semi-colon in the following
sentences where you think it is necessary:
1.
We travelled through the rain it
would be dark by the time we got
home.
2. There was one thing on my mind
winning.
3. Without practice, we would find the
task difficult we all knew that.
This Week’s Maths
This week we will be working with fractions. Using
your www.mymaths.co.uk login, have a go at the
questions set for you.
4. I knew that there would be three
things we would need determination,
perseverance and resilience.
Tuesday
MYMATHS
This homework must be completed by: Friday
16th October.
This does not need to be completed in books.
Wednesday
CREATIVE CURRICULUM
Draw a picture of a day in Skara Brae and
include the buildings, tools and clothes
that humans would have worn at this time.
Thursday
Calculation
Using your www.mymaths.co.uk login, have a go at
the questions set for you.
SPELLINGS
Write each word three times and then
write three sentences containing at least
one of the words: meanwhile, furthermore,
therefore, however, nonetheless, alternatively,
although, because, nevertheless, whereas,
whoever, consequently.
HOMEWORK
BOOKS
This does not need to be completed in books.
Daily homework time recommendation: 20-30 minutes each night
The school recommends reading on a daily basis and signing the Reading Record when an adult listens to a child
read. The school also recommends practicing your year group’s spellings regularly; these can also be found in the
white reading records.
The White Giraffe
Martine had looked forward to the trip with some trepidation and was
very relieved when, a very short time after boarding the bus at
Caracal Junior at noon on Sunday, she found she was enjoying herself.
There was a good atmosphere on the way into Cape Town and some of
the children were telling jokes and singing.
Martine was laughing harder than she actually meant to when she
caught sight of Ben – alone, as usual, at the back of the bus. She
looked away guiltily. Maybe today she would find a way to speak to
him. To distract herself, she reflected on the conversation with Alex
two days previously. The way he had talked, anyone would think there
was a conspiracy at Sawubona to preserve the secret of the white
giraffe until it could be captured and sold for a king’s ransom. And
yet both Tendai and Gwyn Thomas knew more than they did, or they
were lying.