Year 7 Homework Booklet and Tasks Terms 2&3. Greenacre Academy intend homework in years 7 to 9 to be diverse in nature, focusing on more project based work which will be on-going over a number of weeks. This booklet includes home- work from each subject that your son / ward studies at school. Our Expectaons Students must complete and submit homework pieces from each project as their teacher directs. Teachers will inform students when each piece of homework is due in and this will be recorded in Homework Diaries. As a guide students are expected to complete: Yr 7 & 8 - 30 minutes homework per night; Yr 9 - 45 minutes Homework per night. Please also note that some tasks in the booklet are subject to change, and will be done so at the discreon of the teacher. This would occur on occasions where a different task may be more beneficial to your son / ward’s learning. Your support with checking homework diaries and signing each week is very much appreciated. Skills for Life: As part of the Academy’s implementaon of ‘Skills for Life’, each subject area has carefully thought about acvies and tasks to integrate parcular skills into their schemes of work. To help promote this, the compleon of the home- work tasks will help your son / ward develop these certain skills. This terms skills to focus on are: Use of Email Timekeeping Stretch and Challenge: Students will be encouraged to push themselves, compleng more tasks where they see fit. If they have a parcular interest or giſt in a given area they should be encouraged to complete the Stretch and Challenge task. READING HOMEWORK Students must read for at least 30 minutes each night. Homework diaries include a weekly reading log. Students must select one reading opon per week from the reading lists provided in the project and complete their reading log. Form tutors will check reading log has been completed each week when signing diaries. Compeon Time – 50 House points Please email Mrs Bridger ([email protected]) explaining how you have developed the use of email and me keeping skills each week. Entries to be emailed with name and form clearly stated. Please send emails with relevant aachments to demonstrate skills gained. One winner to be announced each week in House Assemblies! QUERIES? If parents / carers have any queries with the homework projects please get in touch us- ing the emails provided within the projects. Thank you for your connued support of Homework. Mrs Holden & Miss J Sassi Homework Club If your son/ward needs help with homework we run a homework club every weekday from 2.50-3.50 in room 9. Homework Overview:
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Year 7 Homework Booklet and Tasks
Terms 2&3.
Greenacre Academy intend homework in years 7
to 9 to be diverse in nature, focusing on more
project based work which will be on-going over a
number of weeks. This booklet includes home-
work from each subject that your son / ward
studies at school.
Our Expectations
Students must complete and submit homework
pieces from each project as their teacher directs.
Teachers will inform students when each piece of
homework is due in and this will be recorded in
Homework Diaries.
As a guide students are expected to complete:
Yr 7 & 8 - 30 minutes homework per night;
Yr 9 - 45 minutes Homework per night.
Please also note that some tasks in the booklet
are subject to change, and will be done so at the
discretion of the teacher. This would occur on
occasions where a different task may be more
beneficial to your son / ward’s learning. Your
support with checking homework diaries and
signing each week is very much appreciated.
Skills for Life:
As part of the Academy’s implementation of
‘Skills for Life’, each subject area has carefully
thought about activities and tasks to integrate
particular skills into their schemes of work. To
help promote this, the completion of the home-
work tasks will help your son / ward develop
these certain skills.
This terms skills to focus on are:
Use of Email
Timekeeping
Stretch and Challenge:
Students will be encouraged to push themselves, completing
more tasks where they see fit. If they have a particular interest
or gift in a given area they should be encouraged to complete the
Stretch and Challenge task.
READING HOMEWORK
Students must read for at least 30 minutes
each night.
Homework diaries include a weekly reading
log.
Students must select one reading option
per week from the reading lists provided in
the project and complete their reading
log.
Form tutors will check reading log has been
completed each week when signing diaries. Competition Time – 50 House points
Task 6: Evaluate your completed homework so far by writing
200 words about what skills you have developed over the
course of the 5 tasks. Remember to use key language to help
aid your art vocabulary.
Need some help? Check your key word list for help.
Task 5: Complete one image from
the booklet . Once you have com-
pleted the drawing shade in neatly
with coloured pencils,. Make sure
that you show the different shades
within a colour and remember the
direction of light!
Need some help? You can use pencils
in the art department at break, lunch
or after school
Gifted and Talented—Stretch and Challenge. Create a large A2 drawing from one of the booklet drawings. You should create this using the grid method for accuracy and choose to use charcoal paint or oil pastels to create a gallery fit piece of artwork!
Term 2 & 3
Spellings
Proportion
Tone
Form
Colour
Complementary
Contrasting
Stippling
Reading List
The 20th Century Art Book , 2001, Susannah
Lawson .
Illustration Now 4, J, Wiedemann
How to draw what you see,. 1996, R. De
Reyna
Numeracy: If a litre of paint costs £1.50, and It
takes 5liters to paint one mural on one wall, how
much would it cost to paint 5 murals on five walls?
Stretch and Challenge yourself: Make your model life-size and as realistic as possible. Test your product to see how well it works. Research into how your product would be manufactured for commercial sales.
Term 2 & 3
Spellings
Alessi
Form
Function
Designer
Quirky
Desirable
Product
Reading List
www.alessi.com
The dream factory: Alessi since 1921
Alessi: Art and poetry,, (cutting edge)
Numeracy:
If you had £100, how much change would you get
from buying a ‘juicy salif citrus juicer’ at £42.46
Do you think that the desert would be a nice place
to live? Explain your answer
TaskTask—Deserts
This task requires you to draw a pic-
ture to illustrate what life would be
like in the desert if you lived there.
Your picture must include—Terrain,
Resources available, wildlife that may
live there and anything that may grow
there.
Task—Deserts
This task requires you to write about what life
would be like if you lived in a the rainforest
What natural resources are there in the desert?
TaskTask—Deserts
This task requires you to draw a pic-
ture to illustrate what life would be
like in the rainforest if you lived there.
Your picture must include—Terrain,
Resources available, wildlife that
may live there and anything that may
grow there.
Gifted and Talented—Stretch and Challenge.
As a final task you could; Compare all three environments and explain which one you would like to live in explaining your answer in full detail (housepoints)
Term 2 & 3
Spellings
Extreme
Environment
Tropical
Antarctica
Climate
Terrain
Wildlife
Reading List
The website below can help improve your
subject knowledge to help with this task
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/
Numeracy:
Research how hot the desert normally is, and
how cold the arctic normally is.
What is the difference in temperature?
Task—Arctic
This task requires you to write about what life
would be like if you lived in Antarctica.
What natural resources are there in the desert?
What is the climate like?
Do you think that the desert would be a nice
place to live? Explain your answer
Term 2 & 3
Task 1—Research Motte and Bailey Castles
In this task, students must write at least 2 paragraphs about
Motte and Bailey Castles. Find out why Motte and Bailey
Castles were popular. Think about what made them so suc-
cessful, how they were built and what defence they offered.
In this task, students must write at least 2 para-
graphs about Square Keep Castles. In addition to
thinking about what made them so successful, how
they were built and what defence they offered, also
think about why the Motte and Bailey Castle de-
clined and why the Square Keep Castle became
popular
Task 5&6 Continued: Supermarkets have plenty of
card that can be used to build your castle. It may also
be worth keeping old newspapers. If possible, try to
use more artistic methods such as papier mache.
Task 5&6—Construct and build either a
Motte and Bailey or a Square Keep Cas-
tle
By using house hold rubbish, students
must build a model of one of the castles
that we have been looking at.
It can be either a Motte and Bailey or
Square Keep, but must be as detailed as
possible
Gifted and Talented—Stretch and Challenge.
Write at least two paragraphs comparing the two different types of Castle. Com-pare the strengths and weaknesses. You must also make a decision as to which is better and explain why you think this.
Term 2 & 3
Spellings
Norman
Motte
Bailey
Square
Keep
Castle
Reading List
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-
england/motte-and-bailey-castles/
http://www.timeref.com/castles/keeps.htm
Research in the local library
Numeracy:
In you diagrams, try to include the dimensions of
real castles
Task 2—Draw a detailed and labelled dia-
gram of a Motte and Bailey Castle
Students have to draw and correctly label a
Motte and Bailey Castle. This must take up
at least a page in their books and contain
as much detail as possible. If possible, you
could also color it.
Task 4—Draw a detailed and labelled
diagram of a Square Keep Castle
Students have to draw and correctly
label a Square Keep Castle. This must
take up at least a page in their books
and contain as much detail as possi-
ble. If possible you could also color it.
Term 2 & 3
A1 Algebraic notation - simplify an expression
How do you simplify an algebraic expression? What is the differ-
ence between b + b and b x b ? What does 6y mean? What would
be the answer to 13c - 8c ? What is the correct way to write 5a ÷
3 ? Explain all of these concepts and show examples of algebraic
expressions before and after they have been simplified.
GM2 Transforming, comparing and classifying shapes
Explain how you would reflect, rotate
and enlarge shapes. What is the differ-
ence between shapes that are congru-
ent and shapes that are similar? Show
examples for all of these things, care-
fully explaining each one.
GM33/34 Perimeter of shapes
What is the perimeter of a
shape and how do you measure
it? Start by explaining how to find the perim-
eter of simple shapes such as triangles, then
end with examples of composite rectangles.
Vocabulary: Perimeter, measure, composite.
A3 Algebra - Substitution
How do you substitute into an algebraic expression? What is meant by substitution? Show how you would replace the letters in an expression with numbers. Vocabulary: Substitution, replace, value, letter.
P3 Probability - Equally likely outcomes
Explain how to find the
probability of an event
such as the chance of
throwing a 3 with a dice
or selecting a king from a
pack of cards. Show how probabilities like
these are expressed as fractions.
Vocabulary: Probability, equally, outcome,
fraction, event.
Term 2 & 3
Spellings: Learn the
vocabulary associated
with each task. You will
be tested on their spell-
ings at the end of term.
Literacy stretch & chal-
lenge: Create a glossary
explaining the mathe-
matical meaning of
each word.
Reading List:
www.mathsisfun.com
www.corbettmaths.com
Numeracy: Create a times tables grid from 1 to 12.
First write in all of the multiplications that you find
easy using black. Then work out the harder multipli-
cations and write them in red. It is only the red ones
that you find difficult, so learn these this term.
N12 Multiplying and dividing decimals
What are the rules for multiplying and dividing
decimal by 10, 100 and 1000, without using a cal-
culator? What is a figure? What is a decimal
place? How do figures move in
relation to the decimal place
when they are multiplied or
divided by 10, 100 or 1000?
Gifted and Talented Stretch and Challenge. For each home work, create a set of ques-
tions for Rusty to attempt once he has read your document and include an answer sheet so that he can self-assess.
Want to test yourself further?! If you enjoy one of the clubs and want to improve, first, you need to attend the club regularly. Then, you may get picked to represent the school in the SSG or after school fixtures!
Term 2 & 3
Spellings :
Opposition
Technique
Tactic
Invasion
Fixture
Official
Exercise
Reading List: THE BACK PAGES! Pick a
newspaper article to read on a sport of your
choice. Want to test yourself? Come and
watch a school fixture and write your own!
Numeracy: Add the number of points for a try in
rugby union to the points needed to win a table
tennis game, and multiply it by the number of
points for a basket in basketball
Task; ATTEND A FITNESS TRAINING
SESSION
Task One
To research the rules for Cludeo, Monopoly and Snakes
and Ladders.
To think and write down three ways in which we could make
the games more religion centred. Mainly thinking about the
religion we are learning about this term, Judaism.