Creative Homework Tasks 7-9 Year Olds
By Giles Hughes
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Creative Homework Tasks 7-9 Year Olds - Giles Hughes
Creative Homework Tasks
Activities to Challenge and Inspire 7-9 Year Olds
Giles Hughes
Originally published by Brilliant Publications
Unit 10,
Sparrow Hall Farm,
Edlesborough,
Dunstable,
Bedfordshire,
LU6 2ES
Website: www.brilliantpublications.co.uk
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The name ‘Brilliant Publications’ and the logo are registered trade marks.
Written by Giles Hughes
Illustrated by Frank Endersby
Cover illustration by Frank Endersby
© 2010 Giles Hughes (text); Brilliant Publications (design and layout)
First published 2010
2012 digital version by Andrews UK Limited
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Introduction
It’s a Friday afternoon and in schools across the country audible groans of disappointment filter from each classroom as homework assignments are given out.
On Sunday evenings tensions rise in family homes as parents and their children begin negotiations, threats, sulks and bribery over uncompleted homework.
Back at school on the following Monday mornings, teachers begin to chase up the late and missing homework tasks. Once again, the nation’s dogs have developed a taste for paper, homework booklets have mysteriously vanished into thin air and thousands of homework sheets have been left on the back seats of cars and buses.
Does this sound all too familiar? Teachers, pupils and parents seem to accept these rituals as an unavoidable part of school life.
In writing these Creative Homework Tasks I decided to try to change this pattern of behaviour. As a busy teacher, and parent, I felt homework was an extra source of stress I could do without and set out to find a solution that would suit everyone.
My first undertaking was to look at a variety of homework schemes and assess the quality and variety of homework assignments. The vast majority of homework tasks were numeracy and literacy based, the sheets themselves tended to look similar, generally being formal in layout and lacking pictures, diagrams and illustrations.
It was obvious that these tasks were completely inappropriate for the largest group of non-participants, most of whom were boys. I invited groups of children to carry out a ‘preferred learning style’ questionnaire. The results indicated that the majority of children who were reluctant to carry out homework tasks were kinaesthetic learners and visual learners.
When asked to list things that they were interested in outside of school and their favourite school lessons, football, art, science fiction, dinosaurs, sport, computer games and crafts all figured highly on their lists!
Knowing what the children were interested in and how they preferred to learn gave me something tangible to go on - my job was to now go out and plan a series of new homework tasks that would appeal directly to them.
The first creative homework task I came up with was one where they had to invent their own ‘James Bond’ style watch (see ‘Escape’). The watch design had to incorporate three gadgets which their ‘hero’ uses to defeat or escape from an enemy.
Children love secrets and an element of mystery, so in order to attract their interest I staged this first task. On Monday morning I sat with my back to the class working at my desk before calling the register, apparently engrossed in what I was doing. Within moments I was surrounded by a