{"id":1118,"date":"2025-11-03T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","slug":"literacy-homework-week-1-big-talk-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/2025\/11\/03\/literacy-homework-week-1-big-talk-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy Homework Week 1: Big Talk Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1121 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28161041\/Big-Talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"108\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Week 1 of our next homework block.\u00a0 This block is focusing on literacy.\u00a0 Week 1&#8217;s task is preparing for Big Talk Week which will start on Monday 17th November.\u00a0 Details are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Big Talk Homework<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school &#8216;Big Talk Homework Challenge&#8217;.\u00a0 This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.\u00a0 The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.\u00a0 This term our Health topic is Myself and My Family.\u00a0 At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk.\u00a0 They can bring in photos or posters to help them. Please see below a great example of a poster that was made.\u00a0 They used lots of drawings instead of writing which helped the child remember what to say about each person in their family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-139x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example.png 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some ideas to include in their talk might be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A photo or drawing of themselves. Talk about them &#8211; What they like? Dislike? etc.<\/li>\n<li>Photos or drawings of their family.\u00a0 Who lives in their house? Any pets?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The talk should be ready to be presented the week bg Monday 17th November.<\/b> More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to hearing them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Week 1 of our next homework block.\u00a0 This block is focusing on literacy.\u00a0 Week 1&#8217;s task is preparing for Big Talk Week which will start on Monday 17th November.\u00a0 Details are as follows: Big Talk Homework Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school &#8216;Big Talk Homework Challenge&#8217;.\u00a0 This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/2025\/11\/03\/literacy-homework-week-1-big-talk-preparation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literacy Homework Week 1: Big Talk Preparation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}