Homework Overview Greenacre Academy intend 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 (see attached table). Teachers will inform students when each piece of homework is due in and this will be recorded in Homework Diaries.

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.

Reading Homework 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 and 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

Employability

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.

Queries? If parents / carers have any queries with the homework projects please get in touch using the emails

provided within the projects. Thank you for your continued support of Homework.

Mrs Holden

Homework Projects

Year 9

Homework Schedule Term 1

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.

Term 1

Week

Commencing

5th Sept 12th Sept 19th Sept 26th Sept 3rd Oct 10th Oct

Subjects

Art and

Design

ICT

English

Food Tech

Geography

PE

DT

PSHE

History

Maths

PA

PE

RE

Science

MFL

Music

Art and

Design

ICT

English

Food Tech

Geography

PE

DT

PSHE

History

Maths

PA

PE

RE

Science

MFL

Music

Art and

Design

ICT

English

Food Tech

Geography

PE

DT

PSHE

History

Maths

PA

PE

RE

Science

MFL

Music

Year 9

Yr 9 Homework tasks : Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The

Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the

class teacher and / or student.

Term 1

SUBJECT Art

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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

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

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 and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

Dia de los Muertos

Tone

Sculpture

Colour

Composition

Paper manipulation

Pattern

Create your own Day of

the Dead skull mask

made out of materials

you have at home.

Remember to incorporate

pattern and colour, just

like an original Calaca.

To make 10 large sugar skulls you need:

10lb sugar

½ cup meringue powder

7 tablespoons water

How much of each ingredient would you need to make 150 skulls?

Show your working.

Day of the Dead – Tony Johnston

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Day_of_the_Dead.aspx#1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/events_and_festivals/day_of_the_dead

How To Draw Skulls For Beginners: Draw Skulls Step By Step Guided Book- Gala Publications

Homework tasks :Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading,

Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class

teacher and / or student .

Term 1

Task 1 Copy and complete the diagram below with at least 5 more businesses. Find the business

logo for each, and draw the logo next to the name of the business. When you are doing this think about

the logo, why it has been used and what it says about the business

.Using your diagram, copy and complete the table below and

write down what the business sells, produces or provides. Name of the business What the business sells, produces or provides Nike Designs, manufactures and sells sportswear.

Task 2 Based on your groups ‘Tycoon in Schools’ business plan, explain how you are going to complete the marketing mix by

answering the questions below. 1. Product – What product or service is your business going to sell or provide? 2. Price – How much will customers be charged? Why? 3. Place – Where and when will the product and/or service be sold? Why? 4. Promotion – Where and how will the business, its products and/or services be promoted? Why are these the most effective methods? Think about your target audience.

Task3 Research the following key words and find any necessary formulae in preparation for our next main classroom activity

‘Profit and Loss Accounts’. Cost of sales – Gross profit –Net profit – Overheads and expenses – Profit -

Sales revenue -

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

Revise the following for spelling tests throughout the term;

Entrepreneur Apprentice

Manufacture Objectives

Promotional Finance Agenda

Define the following key

terms:

Variable Costs

Fixed Costs

Revenue

Break Even

Cash Flow

Break even =

Fixed cost ________________

(Selling price per unit –

variable cost per unit)

Calculate the break even point

for the following example;

Fixed cost = £100 selling price =

£5 variable cost = £3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

/business

Using the above link, find

and read 2 articles about

current business affairs in

the UK.

Name of business

and logo

Nike

Yr 9 Homework tasks : Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The

Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the

class teacher and / or student.

S

Task 1 : Using the internet you are to find an example of Python coding and bring a printed

version to class. Don't bring in pages of code. You need a short code of no more than 30 lines and

no less than 10 lines.

Task 3 : You will collect a piece of code from your teacher. You are to add comments for each

line/section of code, explaining its purpose. Include an explanation for the entire code. You can

use the internet and other resources to help you, but you must note any help that you

find/receive.

Task 2 :Take an A4 sheet of paper, hold it at portrait, fold it in half from left to right, then fold

from top to bottom, then half from top to bottom again. On the four left hand squares you are to

write a revision question based on Python vocabulary and the answer to the question opposite it

on the right hand side.

Term 1

Computing

Miss Whiteway - whith280@medwaymail.org

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

BBC Bitesize: - “Introducing

algorithms”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guid

es/z22wwmn/revision

Teach ICT:- “Using algorithms”

http://www.teach-

ict.com/gcse_computing/ocr/216_programmi

ng/algorithms/miniweb/pg2.htm

What do the following

symbols mean?

=

>

<

>=

<>

Computing

Programming

Python

Variable

Reference

Technology

Create an algorithm

based on the concept

of using a calculator

that can times two

number together and

divide the result.

Please ensure the

correct symbols have

been used as well as

some form of user

input is included.

Yr 9 Homework tasks: Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The

Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the

class teacher and / or student.

Term 1

Engineering

sharn001@medwaymail.org

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

GCSE Bitesize.

Level 2 btec textbook

Write a how to guide

on using the

machinery.

Add clear

dimensions to

your step by step

plan.

Environment Assess Potential Risks Hazards

Task 2:Draw the tools used for marking out materials and explain how and why you use them.

Task 3 :Write a step by step plan about how to make the ends of material square.

Remember to discuss all the tools you should use and the health and safety that you need to ensure you follow.

Task 1 : To write a list of 20 safety rules for the workshop.

These should be machine specific and relevant.

Yr 9 Homework tasks : students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The

Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the

class teacher and / or student.

Term 1

Subject: English

batcj001@medwaymail.org

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

The Rattle Bag by Seamus

Heaney and Ted Hughes.

Peculier Poems for Pint

Sized Provocateurs by

Oona Zbitkovskis.

What is Poetry by Michael

Rosen.

Find two poems

with a similar

theme. Print them

out and mount on

A3 card. Annotate

the poems on the

card pointing out

comparisons

between them.

The use of structure,

including that of whole

poems, stanzas and

line lengths

The division of lines

into groups of syllables

in the study of metre.

Stanza Simile Metaphor Onomatopoeia Couplet Quatrain Rhythm

Task 1 :Using some of the techniques studied ,write a poem about

parents and children.

Task 2 : Find a short poem , mount it on a card or thick paper and annotate the edges

Task 3: Make a fact file on one of the poets studied

Yr 9 Homework tasks

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

GCSE Bitesize

Cookbooks

Recipes

*Video demonstration

how to use the

equipment.

*Laminated displaying of

the equipment with

image on step by step.

*Booklet on risks

assessment.

Ingredients

Temperatures

Professional Hygienic

Environment Assess

Potential Risks Hazards

Task 1: A local chef has given you the opportunity to work and train in a professional kitchen. You have to design and annotated 6 dishes which will demonstrate a range of different skills for example: knife skills. Your design much be annotated.

Task 2 :You must carry out a health and safety risk assessment for your 6 chosen dishes. You should also include the working environment in which you intend to prepare and cook the dishes. Identify potential risk and hazards, stating what precautions you will put into place to avoid these. This must be written up in a form of a report.

Task 3 : Based on your 6 chosen dishes you need to name and describe the main equipment and utensils you will use . You must describe safely how you would use them. Also explaining the importance of keeping them clean and storing them safety and correctly.

Term 1

Food Technology

rydeg003@medwaymail.org

Yr 9 Homework Tasks:

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Task 1— Due 12th September

What are biomes? Create a detailed fact sheet about any of the biomes around the world.

You can choose: Rainforest, Savanna, Grassland, Tundra, Desert, Taiga Forest and Temperate

Forest.

Task 2—Due 10th October

With the information you have researched from your factsheet, you need to create your own biome.

Be as creative as you like! Choose from the list in Task One to create your biome!

Good luck!

Task 3—Due 17th October

Following your completion of creating the biome! You need to right a detailed evaluation about the project!

Please include the headings of:

What went well, Even Better If, What would I do differently next time?

Term 1

Geography

simmc154@medwaymail.org

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

Explain how

someone could

adapt to live in two

of these types of

biomes and what

they would need to

survive.

www.bitesize.co.uk

www.s-cool.co.uk

www.geographyallt

heway.com

Research and calculate how many different

types of plant life are in your

chosen biome.

Biome

Savanna

Climate

Temperature

Yr 9 Homework tasks

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Term 1

Subject :History

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Stretch and Challenge

Identify the main

leaders involved in the

Treaty of Versailles and

explain their different

aims and objectives.

Reading List

Identify the text books and

web sites that you have

used to help you with this

task.

Numeracy

Create a series of

graphs to illustrate how

the Treaty changed

Germany in terms of

Land, Money and Arms.

Spellings

Learn these key words

and names for a

spelling test:

Versailles, Treaty.

Reparations, Weimar,

Ebert, Wilson,

Lloyd-George,

Spartacist, Putsch

Task 1 :Explain six of the main terms of the Treaty of Versailles. You should write a paragraph about

each of the points that you chose to write about

Task 2 :In history we often use the acronym “LAMB” to remind us about the main points of the Treaty of

Versailles.

The letters stand for “Land, Arms, Money and Blame” Create a table to show which heading each of the

six points you have chosen would come under and explain why.

Task 3 : The Weimar Republic was doomed to fail because of the Treaty of Versailles” Write an

essay to explain if you agree or disagree with this statement. You must give at least three key

reasons that you explain fully and a conclusion

YR 9 Homework tasks

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

EMPLOYME in Maths

Task 1: Choose Four of the skills for life represented by EMPLOYME. Use examples to explain how each

skill that you have chosen will help you during your mathematics lessons. You could explain how good

you are at each skill and what you intend to do to develop it further. It is up to you to choose how you

want to produce this work. It could be a piece of writing, a leaflet or poster etc.

Ten Maths Questions

Task 3 :Compile a sheet with a set of ten maths questions based on topics that you have covered this

term. Also make a separate list of answers. You will then test your friends’ knowledge with the questions

during your maths lesson.

Maths Board Game

Task 2 :Use your imagination to create a board game that involves fractions. You should produce the

board for the game, answers to the maths questions in the game and a set of rules.

Term 1

SUBJECT MATHS

sterm029@medwaymail.org

Year 9

Spellings

Construction Accurately Protractor Compasses

cuboid Pyramid

Hexagonal Bearing Degree

Stretch and Challenge

Research a famous

mathematician and

describe the

EMPLOYME Skills For

Life attributes that

made them successful.

Reading List

mathsisfun.com

corbettmaths.com

bbc.co.uk/education

mathsmadeeasy.co.uk

Numeracy

Learn the prime

numbers up to 29.

Practice finding the

squares and cubes of

the numbers 1 to 10.

Learn the 6, 7 and 8

times tables.

Yr 9 Homework Tasks: Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

Representation

Genre

Audience

Conventions

Protagonist

Antagonist

Institution

Look at a recent successful

Action Adventure film. Can

you discover the following:

How much did it cost to

make? How much has it

made at the box office so

far? How much were its big

stars paid to be in it?

‘Action and

Adventure’—

Yvonne Tasker

‘Empire’ magazine

‘Sight and Sound’

magazine

Answer the following in

the style of an essay, using

appropriate examples: the

audience for Action

Adventure films has

traditionally been male.

Why do you think this

might be?

Term 1

SUBJECT Media Studies

Miss Chilmaid: chilt002@medwaymail.org

Task 1: Have you ever heard of the term ‘Blockbuster’? What does it mean to you? Look at the list of

films that were called ‘blockbusters’ and create a mind map that lists 5 things that they have in common

(you may need to research some/all of the films to complete this task): Spiderman 3, Iron Man 2, Pirates

of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Goblet of

Fire. Now add at least two other films to the list and explain why you think they are blockbusters.

Task 2: Create a poster that shows ten things you think of when you hear the term ‘hero’ – uses images to support

your ideas: Which of the following definitions do you agree with? · wins against the odds · heroic and resourceful

character · usually male · has some sort of mission or task to accomplish · overcomes all kinds of perils. One of the

central features of an action adventure film is that the main character has the qualities of a ‘hero’. Pick one of the

films listed below, that you have seen, and explain which hero qualities are used. Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace,

The Mummy, The Mask of Zorro, Lost in Space, The Fifth Element, Stardust, Rambo, Robin Hood, Prince of Persia:

The Sands of Time, The Dark Knight, Iron Man.

Task 3: Find copies of the film posters for the following using www.imdb.com: Pirates of the Caribbean

(2003) The Fugitive (1993) Gladiator (2000) Avatar (2009) For each, explain three things you see on the

poster that would suggest it fits into the genre of action–adventure. Which poster seems to fit most

neatly into the genre? Why is this? Which is the hardest to define as action adventure? Why?

Yr 9 Homework tasks

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Term 1

SUBJECT Performing Arts

Kellt007 @medwaymail.org

Task 1: Create a spider diagram highlighting the keywords you have learnt this term in relation to

Contact/ Physical theatre work: Trust, health and safety, core strength, team work, technique. Use

photographic images to support your work

Task 2 :Complete your rehearsal logs regularly ensuring you use key terminology and set

yourself improvement targets.

Task 3 :Complete a written evaluation sheet based on your practical work and performance

assessment this term

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

Get involved in

the Christmas

Concert as either a

performer or in a

production role.

Research the physical

theatre company

‘Frantic Assembly’.

Your class is going to see the Lion King’ at the Lyceum Theatre . You will be going to an evening performance. Find out the ticket prices and work out the cheapest price to take the class.

Physical Theatre Spot Lighting Hot Seating Vocal expression Facial expression Rehearsal

Task 2 :

Look at the conditions of Just War. Are there any conditions that you would add or remove?

Task 3:

Visit the Christian Aid website and write a small paragraph about what they do.

Yr 9 Homework Tasks: Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The

Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the

class teacher and / or student.

Jihad

Justified

Retribution

Holy war

Ethics and the use

of force: Just war

Research and

calculate how many

holy wars there have

been since 1900

Stretch and Challenge Reading List Numeracy Spellings

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Uddis462@medwaymail.org

Are self-defence

and fighting to

defend a faith

justifiable

reasons for going

to war?

Term 1

Task 1 :

Do you think Christians and Muslims should be involved in wars or should they try to find an alternative

way of solving disputes?

Yr 9 Homework Tasks:

Students must complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

Stretch and Challenge are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and / or student.

Task 1:Draw or cut and paste a picture of a light microscope and label all of its working parts. You need

to explain what each part of the telescope does and why it is needed. You should explain how to calculate

the magnification of a sample and provide examples of this.

You will need to know all of this information for you Biology paper one exam.

Task 3: You have been asked to write an article for a science journal based on vectors and scalers.

Explain the following statements within your article: What is the difference between a vector and a

scalar? How are they linked together? How does the speed of an object have the same value as an object?

You can provide examples or diagrams to support your article explanation.

Task 2: Construct an information sheet for a Year 7 or 8 student to explain what the main parts of an

atom are and where these parts are found. You should provide at least three different examples of

elements drawn as an atom e.g. oxygen, hydrogen, lithium. You will need to include the rules that link to

electron configuration are and an explanation of what an isotope is.

Term 1

SUBJECT: Science

Bailc197@medwaymail.org

Stretch and

Challenge

What is an

isotope? Draw

some examples

and explain what

they show.

Reading List

Edexcel 9-1

combined

science

resources.

Numeracy

Calculations of

sample sizes under

a light microscope.

Remember units

Spellings

Microscope Vector Scalar Magnitude Isotope