1. Wilsden Detective Agency – Homework Project 1 – Due in Monday 4th December
Starters
Main Courses
Desserts
Reading – Please ensure that you spend the equivalent of 10 minutes a day, reading your school reading book and other suitable books of your own choice.
Make a model metal detector – Use a range of junk materials to make a metal detector that can be displayed in the classroom.
Draw a Map
Draw a map to show the location of famous Roman landmarks such as baths, aqueducts, walls or roads.
Research
Research famous Roman landmarks in the UK
Research Roman Emperors
Research Boudicca
Design a Roman mosaic
Number Zumba – Please ensure that you spend the equivalent of 10 minutes a day practicing your rapid recall facts for your test on a Friday.
Make a photo album
Take photos or use images from the internet to show how the Romans have influenced our daily lives. Annotate each picture (in your own words) to explain what each picture shows.
Make a timeline
Make timeline of events in your life using Roman numerals to show the dates.
Spellings – Please ensure that you spend the equivalent of 10 minutes a day practicing your spellings for your weekly test on a Friday.
Write a diary
Imagine that your home town has been invaded by Romans. Write a diary entry describing what you can see, what you can hear and how you are feeling.

2. Homework – A guide for parents
Please ensure that the homework that your child completes is their own work.
Research and other work that they complete must be their own work. Children must not copy directly from a book or the internet. They must be able to explain what they have found out.
Work can be presented in any way that they choose for example: in the form of a booklet; a poster to share with the class; a newspaper report; a letter to a real person or fictional character. Their work can include tables, charts, detailed drawings or diagrams and must be neatly handwritten.
Completed projects will be displayed around the classroom and corridors as well as being shared in school assemblies.
Children do need to complete each of the activities which can be returned to school as soon as they have been completed.
Websites of interest for this project are:
Please continue to support your child with their homework by:
Listening to them read and signing their diary when they have read to you;
Helping them to learn and get quicker at basic number facts in their number zumba books;
Practicing their spellings with them.
Many thanks in advance, Year 5 team