Term 4 Homework Pack - Skills for Life Trust · 2018. 2. 22. · Year 8 Term 4 Homework Pack Greenacre Academy intends homework to be diverse in nature, focusing on more project-based

Year 8 Term 4 Homework Pack

Greenacre Academy intends homework to be diverse in nature, focusing on more project-based work which will be on-going over a number of weeks. This booklet includes homework 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 their planners. Please also note that some tasks in the booklet are subject to change, and this 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. As well as the three Homework Tasks, there are some additional activities for each subject.

Reading List Students should read for at least 30 minutes each night. Reading frequently will help students to develop their vocabulary and literacy skills. Please encourage you son / ward to read. Suggested reading material has been included within the projects for each subject.

Stretch & Challenge Students are encouraged to push themselves, completing more tasks where they see fit. If they have a particular interest or gift in a given area, students should be encouraged to complete the stretch and challenge task.

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 homework tasks will help your son/ward develop these certain skills. The Skills for life focus is EMPLOY ME -

Excellence, Manners, Perseverance, Listening, Organisation, You, Motivation and Employability Accelerated Reader Year 7/8 students are taking part in the Accelerated Reader programme, which is an online programme that develops students reading skills and promotes a love of reading. As part of this initiative, we have provided students with their own Accelerated Reader from the library. This reading forms part of basic equipment for students in year 7/8, therefore students should have their reading book with them every day. It is essential that reading books are looked after, while on loan, and we ask that students keep these in as good condition as possible. Students will be reading their AR book for a minimum of 20 minutes each day, however we encourage pupils to be reading as often as possible at home, in addition to homework set. We encourage students to finish and exchange their reading books every two weeks (length of book depending). As reading is essential for all exam subjects, we also recommend that students are accessing a range of

fiction and non-fiction texts. Please support your son/ward with this, by promoting reading as often as possible at home. We also ask that you acknowledge and share your son/ward’s success with the Accelerated Reader programme. Bedrock Vocabulary Bedrock is a new and innovative vocabulary programme which enables students to complete interactive lessons which take between 15-20 minutes. During the lessons, students will learn the definitions of keywords and complete a range of comprehensive tasks to improve their reading skills. As your child progresses through the curriculum, they will study hundreds of words, whilst reading fiction and non-fiction texts regularly. Learning key vocabulary is essential for all subjects in order for your son/ward to access their exams. We recommend that students complete two sessions per week, some of these may be completed in school, during lessons, but students also need to engage with the programme in their own time too. Students will need to:

- Logon to https://www.bedrocklearning.org/ - Click on login - Put in their username and password (which will be in their student planners) - Click on the first session

We ask that you acknowledge and share your son/ward’s success with the Bedrock Vocabulary programme. If your son/ward is unable to access the internet from home, they are able to use the library after school every day as part of homework club which takes place from 2.50 pm – 3.50 pm. Study Room If your son/ward needs help with homework or a quiet place to study we run a homework club every weekday from 2.50-3.50 in the Library. Queries? If you have any queries about the homework projects please get in touch with the relevant teacher using the email address provided for each subject. Thank you for your continued support of Homework.

https://www.bedrocklearning.org/

Year 8 Term 4 Homework Schedule

Your son/ward will be set homework on alternate weeks throughout the term on the week commencing dates outlined below. The ‘hand in dates’ will be set by teachers in class and recorded in student diaries.

Week Commencing

20th Feb 27th Feb 6th March 13th March 20th March 27th March

Yr 8

Art and Design

Computing English

PA Geography

PE

Music

History Maths

Food Tech RE

Science MFL DT

PSHE

Art and Design

Computing English

PA Geography

PE

Music

History Maths

Food Tech RE

Science MFL

DT

PSHE

Art and Design

Computing English

PA Geography

PE

Music

History Maths

Food Tech RE

Science MFL DT

PSHE

Year 8 Term 4 Homework Tasks

Art and Design [email protected]

Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.

TASK

1 Task 1 Please note: you will be issued with a booklet in class.

Complete task one from the booklet remember to keep your mark-making accurate and maintain proportion when drawing. Need some help? Use the grid method to help you with scale and proportion.

TASK

2 Task 2

Complete task two from the booklet. Try to add tone or extra detail to show off your skills! Need some help? Draw a tonal key at the top of your page to remind you of the five tones you need.

TASK

3 Task 3

Complete task three from the booklet. Could you add a background to draw upon to add a different effect. Need some help? Why not use tea or coffee to stain the page to give your work an aged appearance?

Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy

Task Spellings

Create your own City Scape relief pattern made out of materials you have at home. Remember to incorporate strong lines,and shadows and highluights to show a cityscape atmosphere.

Illustration Now 4, J, Wiedemann

How to draw what you see R. De Reyna

http://www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital/portraiture/self-image/making-a-self-portrait.php

If you grid an image 1cmx1cm, and want to enlage your image to be three times bigger how many cm should the grid on the drawn image be?

Cityscape Urban Lines

Cross hatching Tonal

Collage Perspective Collagraph

Printing


Computing [email protected]


TASK

1

What is binary? How is it used? Research and write at least half a page of notes.

TASK

2

Denary to Binary conversion worksheet. Please use the grid on the sheet to help you convert the denary numbers to binary, and on the back of the sheet the binary numbers to denary. Extension – binary/denary addition sheet.

TASK

3

Please write a secret message in binary using ASCII code. This should be at least three sentences.


Task Spellings

Converting between binary and hexadecimal notations

ASCII conversion Adding and subtraction binary numbers

Binary Denary

Hexadecimal Conversion

Addition subtraction


Design Technology [email protected]


TASK

1

Research three different careers there are in the engineering industry and explain how you can get into these careers.

TASK

2

Design a poster to sell an apprenticeship training scheme.

TASK

3

Write down 3 questions you might be be asked at an apprenticeship interview and how you could answer them.


Task Spellings

Write a letter of application for an appreticeship training program.

GCSE Bitesize

Mr DnT

Technology Student

Work out the surface area and volume of your product.

Engineering Career

Interview Apprenticeship

Industry Candidate


English [email protected]


TASK

1 Write the meaning (definition) of the following techniques: verb, adverb, preposition,

adjective, alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, structure, oxymoron, atmosphere, setting, dialogue and onomatopoeia. These can be found in dictionaries or online. Write each word and alongside it what it means. To challenge yourself, you should include an example for each.

TASK

2 Find a picture or a photo of a landscape, if you are able to, draw a grid on your picture splitting

your picture into 6 equal boxes. Choose three of the squares and describe these sections of the image in detail. Use interesting adjectives, senses, similes and metaphors. To challenge yourself, you could include personification, imagery, onomatopoeia and alliteration. If you are unable to find a picture, you could draw one and use this.

TASK

3 Think about a setting you know well, this could be your house, school, a park or somewhere

that you spend a lot of time. Write a description of this place when it is dark and create an eerie atmosphere. Think about how different it looks at night. Plan 4 ideas for 4 paragraphs and include as many descriptive writing techniques that you can think of. Write in third person, do not use 'I'.


Task Spellings

Write a description of a forest, you can create an atmosphere that is either calm and serene or spooky and eerie. Consider how your writing could guide your reader through the forest. Your writing should have a clear structure.

Gone series by Michael Grant

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

There are 750 books in the library. In one day 40 people borrow 3 books and 15 people come in returning 4 each, how many books are left in the library?

Structure Alliteration

Personification Audience Purpose Sensory


Food Technology [email protected]


TASK

1

You must conduct some research on the nutritional requirements of teenagers. You might look on the internet (not Wikipedia!), in books, magazines, leaflets, etc. You must then select the most important information to create your own leaflet (in your own words) that will persuade teenagers to choose healthier options. Useful information might include; What nutrients teenagers require and why, what food/ingredients provide teenagers with important nutrition, what shouldn't they eat too much of and why, examples of healthy and unhealthy food with an explanation.

TASK

2

Use the research you conducted to design a healthy salad product to meet the nutritional requirements of a teenager. Sketch your ideas and annotate to show the nutritonal information and ingredients. You must justify your choices.

TASK

3 Choose one of the following options:

A. Make your salad and use notes and photos to show how this was prepared B. Create an advertisement to encourage teenagers to buy your product C. Compare the nutritional information of your salad to 2 other ready made salads and show your findings in a report.


Task Spellings

Design brief. You have been asked to produce a new healthy snack bar suitable for all ages. You must design 4 different snack bars. Your designs should be annotated. You should then choose one design and draw it in more detail, include the following: annotated design, method, list of ingredients and equipment and timings for each stage in the method.

Understanding Ingredients Pupil Book Ms Anne Barnett All About Food Helen McGrath Design and Technology Foundations Food Technology Key Stage 3 Paul Anderson

Weighing out ingredients. Adapting recipes ingredients. Working out correct cooking times. Money when food shopping.

Professional Hazard

Hygienic Environment

Assess Potential Risks


Geography [email protected]


TASK

1

Create a public service announcement poster that discusses the need for the UK to do more to help end Child Labour around the world. Focus on Nike products.

TASK

2

Write a letter to the Prime Minister, Theresa May asking her to do more to help those suffering from Malaria in Africa. Explain to the Prime Minister what the UK could do to prevent the spread of the disease.

TASK

3

Annotate a map that shows the member states of the Schengen Zone, European Union and Euro Single Currency Zone. Make sure you use different colours for labelling. Explain what your map shows you in detail.


Task Spellings

Describe two reasons as to why the UK should or should not increase spending on foreign aid to support countries around the world that are suffering from endemics.

Collins student atlas

Eduqas Geography A Text book

BBC Bitesize Geography

What proportion of the world's population is suffering from Aids? Show this data in the form of a graph.

Endemic Malaria

Prevention Poverty Disease Famine


History [email protected]


TASK

1

Design a poster that could have been displayed in hospitals in Britain during the 18th century explaining to staff ways in which they could improve hygiene.

TASK

2

Using the template, keep a diary of what you do in your free time for a week. How would this compare to leisure time in the 1800s?

TASK

3

Choose an important moment in Britain's history that we have studied this year. Design a coin that shows this event.


Task Spellings

What was the biggest change during the 19th century? Was it medical, social (leisure) or knowledge (e.g. Darwin's theory). Explain your answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9J-wzhADS4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/leisure/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zw9jq6f/revision

The first football league was organised in 1888. How many league seasons have there been in total?

Infection Disease

Immunisation Vaccine Leisure

Evolution


Maths [email protected]


TASK

1

Write in detail how to create a pie chart. How to work out the angles needed for the pie chart, what equipment you will need and how to construct the pie chart. Use BBC Bitesize to help, or watch clips from either Corbett Maths or Math Genie.

TASK

2

Look for examples of pie charts or scatter diagrams. These can often be found in newspapers or magazines. Cut them out and try to explain what they are about. If you can’t find anything look online, print and interpret.

TASK

3

Design a poster showing the definitions of a circle, these should include the: radius, diameter, circumference, arc, chord, tangent, sector and segment. Use BBC Bitesize to help you.


Task Spellings

1) Get some data and create your own scatter graph. 3) Research how to find the circumference and area of a circle.

Uestions.

Research Florence Nightingale and the link to pie

charts.

Know how to plot coordinates.

Pie chart Angle

Circumference Area

Sector Arc

Tangent Chord Radius

diameter


Music [email protected]


TASK

1

Rehearse with your band in preparation for your performance at the end of term. Remember, practice makes perfect!

TASK

2

Learn spellings and meanings of keywords for a test next lesson.

TASK

3

Complete an evaluation of this term's project.

Stretch & Challenge

Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings

Listen to Elmer Bernstein's The Great Escape Theme Tune and write a review.

The Story of the Orchestra by Robert Levine

Read an article in a Music magazine such as NME

Tickets to a concert cost £22 each for students and £15 for accompanying teachers, with a 10% discount for groups of more than 10 students. How much will the total cost be for a group of 13 students, plus 1 teacher?

Accuracy Tempo

Structure Chorus Verse Chord


PE [email protected]


TASK

1

Attend a Dodgeball Training session

TASK

2

Attend a Rugby or Football Training session

TASK

3

Attend a Table Tennis Training session


Task Spellings

Want to take your skills further? Go to training sessions regularly and represent the Academy by competing against another school!

http://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/dodgeball.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/rules_and_equipment/4200680.stm

http://www.table-tennis-tables.co.uk/shop/table-tennis-rules.html

The blue and red teams play each other in 5 games of rugby. The scores are: 5v13. 13v3. 15v27. 21v19. 25v24. How Many points did they each score in total?

Tackle Possession

Dribble Service Throw

Handling


Performing Arts (Dance) [email protected]


TASK

1

Learn your lines in the script we are looking at this term; “House of Horrors” try and learn them off by heart so that you don't need to use your script during the performance.

TASK

2

Annotate your script with your stage directions/ emotions, and make sure you know all your lines for our final assessment.

TASK

3

Complete the written evaluation sheet you have been given and complete it using full sentences and include key words that you have been learning in drama this term.

Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings Attend a dance , drama or music club, through school or at an out of school club.

Look up one of your favourite actors from TV or film and find out how they trained to beome and actor. Research one of your favourite actors and understand a little bit about he got started in acting. Any newspaper or magazine article relating to film

The physical theatre company 'Frantic Assembly' are coming to do a workshop with you. They charge £200 for a 2hour session. There are 25 students participating and the PA department are paying for half the cost. How much will each student have topay to co

Characterisation Stage Directions

Vocal Expression Rehearsal

Performance Miming


PSHE [email protected]


TASK

1

Identify any safety risks on the sheet you have been given.

TASK

2

Complete the worksheet you have been given about first aid.

TASK

3

Create a poster explaining how to treat a sprained ankle, a cut and what to do if someone has fainted.


Task Spellings

Create your own first aid kit for at home.

BBC Bitesize PSHE

St Johns Ambulance website

British red cross website

In 2010 17,201 people died in their own homes. 237 of these were fire related and 655 were due to a fall, what is the total percentage of these deaths?

First Aid Bruise Sprain Burn

Fracture Safety


RE [email protected]


TASK

1

List five qualities of God and explain them.

TASK

2

Explain William Payley's design argument in 100 words or less.

TASK

3

Freewill is just an illusion. Do you agree?

Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings St Thomas Aquinas believed he had five ways in which he could prove the existence of God. Research and explain each of these five ways.

BBC Bitesize RE

RE:Quest

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ar/Arguments_for_the_existence_of_God

Work out the percentage of the UKs population for each religion. 33.2 million Christians. 2.7 million Muslims. 14.1 million Atheist. 817,000 Hindu. 423,000 Sikh. 263,000 Jewish. 248,000 Buddhist. Total population- 63 Million.

Atheist Agnostic

Theist Miracle

Suffering Justification


Science [email protected]


TASK

1

Create a poem or change the lyrics of a popular song to include the key facts from a lesson on one of the following topics: Inheritance & DNA, Materials or Sound

TASK

2

Create a comic strip or flow chart showing your learning of one of these topics: Inheritance & DNA, Materials or Sound Be as creative as you can!

TASK

3 Draw your brain

Fill it up with keywords and concepts. You must explain what these terms mean. You can include words from any of the following topics that you have discussed in class: Inheritance & DNA, Materials or Sound


Task Spellings

Make a crossword using only key terms linked to Atoms, elements and compounds. Don’t forget to write 12 detailed clues!

World of science Belinda Gallaher

Science Experiments Robert Winston

KS3 Science Revision Guide Richard Parsons and Parry Gannon

When have you used Maths skills in Science? Write 100 words explaining why Maths is needed in Science.

Genes Characteristics

Resistant Reactivity Frequency

Waves


Spanish [email protected]/[email protected]


TASK

1

Display on school bag and school objects, using colour and adjective agreements.

TASK

2

Survey – Ask 6 people their name, age, how they feel in Spanish and report their answer.

TASK

3

Research any 5 famous people and report their birthday in Spanish (name, age, how they feel, where they live).

Stretch & Challenge

Reading List Numeracy

Task Spellings

Design a family tree and write an explanation in Spanish like (his/her name is …, he/she is … years old, he/she is is my uncle/aunt).

Spanish short stories for beginners by Olly Richards Learn Spanish in a week by Christina Torres La Casa de los Espiritus by Isabel Allende

Design a poster on Spanish numbers between 1 and 31 then up to 100 – 10’s only).

School objects – the difference between el/la un/una (masculine and feminine) Days of the week and months in Spanish Members of family in Spanish. Colours in Spanish Dates in Spanish Greetings in Spanish

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Term 4 Homework Pack - Skills for Life Trust · 2018. 2. 22. · Year 8 Term 4 Homework Pack Greenacre Academy intends homework to be diverse in nature, focusing on more project-based