Homework Week Beginning 12^th of January 2026

Message for Parents and Children:

On Thursday evening there will be meetings for children who are making their sacrament of First Reconciliation or First Holy Communion this year at 6/6.30pm.

Reminders:

• Homework should be returned on a Thursday or a Friday.
• Our P.E. lessons will now take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Please bring in any old socks for the children to use to clean their whiteboards.
• Please ensure that reading books are returned daily.

Homework:

Reading

Rubies – Animal Adventure Club The Baby Deer Rescue By Michelle Sloan

Please read chapters 2 and 3.

Sapphires – Into the Bin (and out again) By Anne Fine

Please read chapters 2 and 3.

Diamond –

Read the whole book with some oral questions at the end about what happens in the book.

 

Spelling

Red 

Phoneme Family – ‘o-e’

Whole, alone, those, coach, road, toast, window, shallow, goes, tomatoes

Revise phoneme family – ‘ai’

Task: Create a paragraph/ short story about winter using some of your spelling words.

 

Blue 

Phoneme: ve (have)

Common words – own, small, something, live, give

Tasks:

1. Come up with as many words as you can with your new phoneme ‘ve’ (have).
2. Write 2 sentences using your common words.

 

Green

Phoneme – oo

zoo, too, mood, pool, cook

Revise phonemes –   ph, wh, ng, ee

Common words – play, no, look

Tasks:

1. Practice writing/ making phoneme words.
2. Write 2 sentences using common words.

 

Maths – Choose one column and complete the questions.

Circles and Squares	Triangles
1.   526 –     27	1. 45 – 13 =
2.   981 –    98	2.52 – 7 =
3.   198 –   139	3. 35 – 15 =