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Homework Projects

Year 8

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). Teach-

ers 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.

Students can select one reading option per week from the reading lists provided in the project and complete

their reading log, located in their homework diaries. Form tutors will check the reading log has been completed each

week when signing diaries.

Stretch and Challenge

Students will be encouraged to push themselves, completing more tasks where they see fit. If they have a particu-

lar interest or gift in a given area they 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 & Miss J Sassi

Homework Projects

Year 8

Excellence-

Striving to be excellent in all we do

It involves trying to put quality into everything you do, and this attitude tends to separate the achievers, who make rapid strides in their career from others

Giving 100% to every task/piece of work

Manners-

•Good Manners refers to the polite and good social behaviour and play a significant role in building relationships.

•Even big international dealings are based on good manners. Good manners cost nothing. It is the mark of nation’s character

Perseverance-

•Perseverance is the ability and drive to start and continue steadfastly on the path towards any goal you set.

•Nothing fundamentally good comes without hard work and determination

Frequently this factor alone is the difference between failure and success.

Listening -

•Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages

•Listening is key to all effective communication, without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood and things go wrong!

Organised-

•Being disorganised will have a negative effect on your school life and productivity

•Employees with this skill are more productive on the job, make better impressions on bosses and receive more promotions than those who keep sloppy, inefficient work habits.

•Being more organised means being more time efficient.

You-

•Your education

•Your future

•Your employability

•Your grit and determination to succeed

•Your communication skills – verbal and non verbal

•Your ambition

Motivation-

•Focus on your end goal – make it happen…take the help, learn from everything you do – create your own success.

Employability-

•The British Chambers of Commerce said that many employers had been left “disheartened and downright frustrated” by poor levels of literacy, numeracy, communication and timekeeping among school leavers and graduates.

•Greenacre Academy students WILL leave us with these soft skills!

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Homework Tasks:

Tasks should be completed in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and Stretch and Challenge are to be

completed at the discretion of the class teacher. Please note that the Art resource booklet will be distributed in class.

Term 6

ART AND DESIGN

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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?

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 1

Complete task one from the booklet. Remember to keep your mark-making accu-rate and maintain proportion when drawing.

Need some help? Use the grid method to help you with scale and proportion.

STRETCH AND CHALLENGE

Create a large A2 drawing from

one of the booklet drawings.

You should create this using the

grid method for accuracy and

choose to use charcoal, paint

or oil pastels to create a piece

of artwork fit for a gallery.

READING LIST

The 20th Century Art Book

Susannah Lawson

Illustration Now 4

J. Wiedemann

How to draw what you see

R. De Reyna

NUMERACY

Marcell Duchamp was born in

1887 and died in 1968.

How old was he when he died?

His work the ‘Large Glass’ is 9ft

tall. How tall is this in metres?

Show your working out.

SPELLING

Proportion

Tone

Mark-making

Colour

Composition

Portrait

Expression

Year 8

Homework Tasks:

Tasks should be completed in order. The Reading, Spelling, Numeracy and

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

Term 6

Year 08 Computing

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Task 1 Hardware: Input devices

Students are to reflect upon their computing knowledge which have been covered during this cycle. Students will be asked to identify their

strengths and areas for development. In addition, Students will need to answer the following questions below and document ALL responses in

one of the following ways—contributing to their group blog, in a form of an email (sent to your class teacher) or completing a reflective log work-

sheet.

Using examples please explain the role of input devices

(Think about keyboards for entering data, a mouse for selecting icons and giving commands in sub menus.

Task 3 Hardware: Storage devices



one of the following ways—contributing to their group blog, in a form of an email (sent to your class teacher) or completing a reflective log

worksheet.

Using examples please explain the role of storage devices

(Think about Hard drives, USB Pen Drives, CDs, DVDs + Online Storage Facilities)

Task 2 Hardware: Output devices



one of the following ways—contributing to their group blog, in a form of an email (sent to your class teacher) or completing a reflective log work-

sheet.

Using examples please explain the role of output devices

(Think about printers for classwork, speakers for producing sound, projectors for projecting a PC screen)


What hardware devices

do you need to connect to

the internet?

What is a peripheral?

READING LIST

BBC Bitesize: -

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

zxb72hv/revision

Computer Hope:-

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/

inputdev.htm

Teach IT

http://www.teach-

ict.com/gcse_computing/ocr/211_hardware_so

ftware/types_hw/miniweb/pg2.htm

NUMERACY

If I was using a 32GB Pen drive how many minutes of music could it contain:-

A. 37,248

B. 9,132

C. 18,624

D. 74,496

SPELLING

Input Output Storage Keyboard Mouse Touch Screen Speakers Printers Hard Drive

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Design Technology

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Task 1

Investigate a design movement. Explain a little of the history of it and find images of products from this era. (Minimum 200 words)

Task 3

To ask for feedback on your design from 3 different people. Have 5 questions to ask them and write down their responses. Then complete a self evaluation with a minimum of 200words.

Task 2

Complete a design of a product or a product adaption which takes inspi-ration from the design movement you have investigated.

Annotate using keywords and render (colour) your design.


To annotate your design us-

ing keywords such as:

Target Market

Aesthetics

Materials

Function

READING LIST

GCSE Bitesize.

NUMERACY

Create a graph to show the responses from your feed-back.

Work out the percentages of each response. (you may need to consider how you will group responses)

SPELLING

Target Market

Aesthetics

Materials

Function

Year 8

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Task 3

Task 2

English

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Task 1

Write a poem using the theme of the night. It can be any type of poem that you know.

You must try and use some of the techniques that you have learnt and think about the

composition of your poem. Your poem must have at least 10 lines.

Task 3

Create a leaflet about Charles Dickens. Include information about: his life and back-ground, Victorian England, his work, what he wrote about and what influenced him to write.

Make sure that your leaflet is informative and well presented.

Task 2

A community centre for young people is being closed down in your area. Write a letter to

your local councillor, persuading them to keep the centre open. Consider how your organise

your writing and what types of language you can include to persuade her.


Learn poetic devices and begin to

explain the effect that they have

on the reader.

Develop your understanding of

context.

Challenge yourself to read a

book from the reading list and

explore its context.

READING LIST

Great Expectations by

Charles Dickens

Northern Lights by Phillip

Pullman

Treasure Island by Robert

Louis Stevenson.

Frankenstein by Mary

Shelley.

NUMERACY

Greenacre Academy buys a box

of apples which costs £1.42 per

kilogram. An apple from the

box weighs 150g. Find the cost

of the apple.

If children at Greenacre Acade-

my pay 20p per apple (150g),

how much does profit/loss does

the school make per kilogram of

apples.

SPELLING

Persuasion

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Rhyme

Rhythm

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

FOOD TECHNOLOGY

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Design two sweet and two sa-

voury food products. Students

cook and serve for a large

amount of taste testers. Arrange

a local event to raise money for

a charity.

READING LIST

Cooking books.

Design and technology Founda-

tions Food Technology Key

Stage 3 Paul Anderson.

NUMERACY

Weighing out ingredients.

Adapting recipes ingredi-

ents. Working out correct

cooking times. Money

when food shopping.

SPELLING

Au gratin, Bain-marie,

Coulis, Croutons, Gar-

nish, Reduce, Roux,

Marinade, Puree, Sa-

voury and Brunoises.

TASK 1 You should produce research on your theme using the following as starting points:

What is afternoon tea? Where are afternoon teas served? Research where it could be served (e.g. The Ritz)

Cost of food, dishes on menu, skills required at the level of catering. Research baked products. List of

sweet baked products and savoury.

TASK 2

Find two different recipes on the internet or in a book and highlight/label the different things you will need

and that you will have to do.

one must be savoury.

TASK 3

At home you need to prepare, cook and serve your two designs.

You will need to record your preparing, cooking and serving using images either drawn or using photos.

You will need to get feedback from your taste testers.

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

GEOGRAPHY

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Task 1

How does population change?

Write out a detailed paragraph to clearly explain how Birth Rate, Death Rate,

Emigration, Immigration and Natural Disasters cause changes in population.

Task 3 On the 23rd June 2016 we are voting to decide if we should stay or leave the EU. Do you think this would reduce the ‘immigration problem’?

You are to create a short speech between 3-5mins long to explain your view point. You need to do your own research and respond to this question using PEE.

Task 2 Population in some areas is very low. Choose two of the following areas and explain why people chose not to live there.

Desert Polar Areas Mountains Dense Rainforest


Explain the reason for the fall in

Birth Rates and the fall in

Death Rates.

Why is this linked to

development?

READING LIST

www.bitesize.co.uk

www.s-cool.co.uk

www.geographyallthe

way.com

NUMERACY

Research and calculate how many UK citizens

are living abroad.

Can you explain reasons for this?

SPELLING

Population Natural Increase

Development Migration

Immigration Emigration

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

History

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Task 1

Evacuation

Research evacuation and write either a diary or a description of life for a typical

evacuee.

Task 3

Propaganda

Design a poster to put up in class to encourage people to either grow their own food or to leave their children in the countryside as evacuees instead of bringing them home to the city.

Task 2

Rationing

Find out what food and goods were rationed and how much each person was enti-tled to.

Make a ration book for yourself showing what you were entitled to each week and how it was recorded.


Air Raid Wardens had the

difficult task of enforcing

the black-out and clearing

up after air raids.

Describe a typical day in

the life of an Air Raid War-

den during The Blitz.

READING LIST

20th Century World

Warfare and the Impact of

War

Modern World History

Goodnight Mr Tom (Book and

Film)

NUMERACY

During the war, all weights

and measures were imperi-

al.

Draw up a conversion chart

for solids and liquids from

Imperial to Metric.

SPELLING

Blitz

Anderson Rationing

Conscription Morale Warden

Explosion Evacuee

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Maths

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READING LIST

www.mathsisfun.com

www.corbettmaths.com

www.bbc.co.uk/

education

www.mathsmadeeasy.c

o.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.

SPELLING

Construction Accurately Protractor Compasses

cuboid Pyramid

Hexagonal Bearing Degree

Task 1

Geometry—Constructions: Explain how to accurately construct a triangle using a pro-tractor if you are given the lengths of two sides and the angle between them. Explain how to use a pair of compasses to accurately construct a triangle if you are given the lengths of all 3 sides but no angles.

Task 2

Geometry—Nets and 3D shapes: Draw accurate diagrams of the net of the following shapes: Cuboid, square based pyramid, triangular prism and cylinder. Accurately draw three dimensional diagrams of the following shapes: Cube, cuboid, cone, trian-gular prism, cylinder, hexagonal prism and square based pyramid.

Task 3

Geometry—Bearings: Explain how to find a three figure bearing. How do you draw a bearing of more than 180 degrees? Show how to find the bearing of one place from another and explain why the ‘from’ place should have a North line drawn first. Show how to use bearings and map scales to draw a diagram of a journey.


For each home work,

create a set of ques-

tions for ‘Rusty’ to

attempt once he has

read your document

and include an an-

swer sheet so that he

can self-assess.

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Music

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Task 1

Write your part for your song composition, either with your band or on your own

before your next band practice (lesson).

Task 3

Complete your evaluation of Musical Futures and hand in to Miss Breckin before the end of term.

Task 2

Practice with your band in the music department. You can rehearse at lunch time or after school—see Miss Breckin to book a studio.


Participate in a music club or

start learning an instrument

in order to stretch your mu-

sical ability.

READING LIST

Research your favourite

band or artist. Read their

biography if they have

one.

NUMERACY

Add the following together:

Crotchet + minim + quaver

= ?

SPELLING

Bass Drum Percussion

Toms Hi-Hats

Crash cymbal Ride cymbal

Snare drum China cymbal

Neck Body

Headstock Tuning pegs

Sound hole Bridge

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

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Task 1

Research what the views are of EU nationals towards the UK. Research will be used

for discussion

Task 3

Research the pros and cons of how withdrawing or staying in the EU will effect the UK.

Research will be used for in class discussion.

Task 2

Look at the three main political parties in the UK. What are their main aims. Bring your notes to your next class for discussion as we will look at how they can have an impact on religions.

STRETCH AND CHAL-

LENGE

Look at how member-

ship within the EU has

an impact on religions.

READING LIST

British Values taken

abroad

What makes us Brits

NUMERACY

Calculate how many UK citizens actually live

abroad.

SPELLING

Democracy Britain

Respect Tolerance Freedom Western Europe

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Performing Arts—Drama

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Task 1

Create a drama poster, incorporating at least five of the following key terminology:

Miming, Exaggeration, Freeze Frame, Character, Facial Expression, Performance,

Rehearsals, Gestures, Thought Tracking, Devising, Script, Body Language

Task 3

Fully annotate your devised script with your stage directions and relevant emo-

tions, and gestures etc. Rehearse your script fully so that you know all your lines ,

stage directions and actions for your final performance assessment.

Task 2

Write up your script in the correct format for drama. Make sure you include a short

synopsis of your devised script at the top of the page and be sure to include who all

the characters are.


Attend dance club after

school on Tuesday. 3-

4pm in the dance studio

(or during lunch times)

Attend drama club after

school on Thursday. 3-

4pm in the dance studio

READING LIST

Read your script. If you

know your lines, read the

script so you know the lines

of others in your group, to

help them in case they for-

get mid performance.

NUMERACY

At the Greenacre’s Got Talent Show this year, we will be selling programmes on the door at 20p each. We are expecting over 250 people to attend the performance. If 50% of the audience buy a programme, how much mon-ey will the Performing Arts Dept. make for selling the programmes.

SPELLING

Miming, Exaggeration,

Freeze Frame, Charac-

ter, Facial Expression,

Performance, Rehears-

als, Gestures, Thought

Tracking, Devising,

Script, Body Language

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

NUMERACY

Subtract the number of ways you can get out in cricket from the total num-ber of people on field dur-ing a game.

TASK 1

Attend a Parkour training session.

TASK 2

Attend a Rugby training session.

TASK 3

Attend a Badminton training session.

PE

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SPELLING

Health

Fitness

Active

Lifestyle

Exercise

Energy

Muscles

READING LIST

THE BACK PAGES!!

Pick a newspaper article to read on a sport of your

choice.

Want to test yourself?

Come and watch a school fixture and write your own.


If you enjoy one of the clubs

and want to improve, first you

need to attend the club regu-

larly.

Then you may get selected to

represent the Academy in the

SSG or after school fixtures.

Year 8

Homework Tasks:



Term 6

Science

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Task 1

Task 3

Task 2

SPELLING

Create a revision map on aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Make sure you include

sports that use each type of respiration and include some information about famous

athletes/sportspersons. Outline whether they use aerobic or anaerobic respiration

when they compete

Task 3 The eye has many parts that must work together to produce clear vision.

Research and draw a detailed diagram of the eye and annotate ( label) your dia-gram to show the function of each part.

Endothermic or exothermic?

Write a list of everyday examples where endothermic and exothermic reactions take place. Make sure you state what type of reaction is

happening. Include drawings or pictures.


Create a crossword for one of the

following topics:

Light waves

Energetics

Cellular respiration

READING LIST

The Science book

ISBN: 9781409350156

Science: A Children's

Encyclopaedia

ISBN: 9781409347927

NUMERACY

Numeracy Across the

Curriculum

SCIENCE

Handling Data Most charts and graphs you use in sci-ence you will also use in maths. Can you think of

some examples

SPELLING

Respiration Transparent Refraction Reactions

Translucent Oscillations

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