Year 8 Takeaway Homework Menu

Summer Half Term 5

Takeaway Homework Menus

Takeaway Homework menus bring the classroom into the living room. Students choose from a menu of tasks and each has a clear deadline for completion. S t u d e n t s s h o u ld d i s c u s s their choice of task with their teacher and parents and always ensure they are challenging themselves! Each task is ranked in order of the level of challenge- from the less challenging MILD to the highest level of challenge, the VERY HOT! By engaging in Takeaway Homework, students will develop organisational and time management skills, as well as resilience and independence.

Starters are research tasks designed to support learning; Main Courses are designed to encourage extended writing/ reading or numeracy; Desserts are evaluative tasks which consolidate learning.

In English, Maths and Science, students are expected to select three tasks to be completed (one starter, one main and one dessert)

In History, Geography and MFL, students should complete two tasks of their choice, a main and a dessert, and may also choose a starter if hungry for a challenge!

In Art, Drama, Music, IT, Technology, RE, PE and Music, students should aim to complete at least one main course, and may also choose a dessert for more challenge.

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Students Subject Teachers Parents/Carers

Listen carefully to the Takeaway Homework instructions at the start of each topic and guidance in class and choose tasks that are appropriate.

Copy down the Takeaway Homework choices you have made and deadline dates for submission into your planner

Ensure that all Takeaway Homework is completed and handed in on time

Complete all Takeaway Homework activities to the best of your ability

Set Takeaway Homework activities at the start of each topic, guiding students on suitable choices to maximise progress

Outline the purpose of Takeaway Homework and the difference it will make to class work

Set deadlines for completed work and ensure that they are met.

Provide help, support, guidance and advice

Record and report to parents on the commitment students have shown to home learning

Provide a table, chair and a quiet place to work

Discuss the choices made in different subjects and support in managing time to meet deadlines

Know when the deadlines are for each task by referring to the deadline calendar and ensure students complete and submit their chosen task

Ensure that outside clubs/ commitments do not affect the quality of work produced

Check the presentation and content of all Takeaway Homework activities being returned to school

Y8 PE

Starter Main Dessert

In the London 2012 Olympics Jessica Ennis won the Gold medal for the Heptalthalon. This took years of training and dedication. Write a diary entry as if you were Jessica Ennis the day after she won the gold medal. How would she have felt? Your diary entry should be at least 200 words long.

Analyse a recent performance in athletics, describe WWW and EBI – how you can improve next time.

Find out where the next Olympic games will be held (location and date.) Create a powerpoint with at least 8 slides that inestigates the stadiums that will be used and also any problems that the host coutry has faced.

In a word document create a profile of an athlete that you are inspired by. Include a picture of the athlete and at least 10 different pieces of information/ facts about them.

Choose an athletics event that you have taken part in within a PE lesson. Write a detailed report about the skills that you in order to be successful in this event. For example speed, endurance, balance, coordination etc. It should be al least 200 words long.

Design and create a model of a rounders /cricket pitch. Incude all of the boundary lines and ensured it is fully labelled.

To attend an extra curricular club: Athletics, rounders, tennis, cricket or any other PE club that is offered. Sign up with a member of the PE department. You must attend every week.

There are 7 events that make up a heptathalon. Research to find out what each one is, then create a powerpoint with a slide for each of the 7 events. Slides must include, the male and female world record holder in that event, with a picture and the time/distance and date of the World record.

Choose one main and one dessert.Snack box: visit http://teaching.about.com/od/ParentalInvolvement/fl/The-Importance-of-Athletics-in-School.htm - Why is athletics so important in school?

Deadlines:

Task One : 22nd May 2015Task Two: TBC

9A highly motivated student who will aim to achieve well above his/her prediction. He/she is industrious and engages in self-reflection in order to progress. He/she is well organised and an effective independent learner.

8A motivated student who takes full responsibility for his/her learning, and who completes own learning to a very high standard in relation to his/her target. He/she demonstrates initiative and has a positive approach to learning.

7A committed student who demonstrates a keen interest in his/her work and who is determined to achieve. He/she completes own learning to a good standard in relation to their target.

6A generally positive student. He/she has some initiative, will seek help when he/she requires it and usually aim to complete own learning to the best of his/her ability.

5A student who completes work to the standard that just reflects his/her ability but does not show real commitment to his/her studies. He/she generally completes tasks, but lacks the initiative to develop learning further.

4A student with the potential to achieve more, but whose lack of commitment is hindering his/her progress. He/she is capable of distinguishing what he/she needs to do to enhance his/her learning but often chooses not to do so. Own learning, when completed, is of a basic standard.

3An underachieving student who demonstrates little motivation to learn. The student shows minimal commitment to own learning. His/her attentiveness is erratic.

2Poor attitude adversely affects his/her learning. He/she does not apply himself/herself to tasks. The student regularly fails to complete or own learning.

1He/she often rejects help and guidance that would enable him/her to further his/her learning. Own Learning is consistently incomplete and deadlines are rarely met.