Home Learning Tasks (Voyagers) - Week commencing 13.04.2026 - Compulsory weekly tasks and additional activities

Sep 28, 2026

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Weekly home learning tasks for Voyagers outline compulsory activities due by 17.04.2026 and additional tasks from each coloured column. Students are instructed to read daily and log books, practice taught spellings and vocabulary for regular quizzes, complete weekly Times Tables Rock Stars with an expected accuracy above 90%, and engage in subject tasks including animal research, West Africa map listing, Aboriginal inspired art, tourist leaflet design, a “This Is Me” page, and a paragraph on slave conditions in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Key term explanations support research for the topics.

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Home Learning Tasks (Voyagers)

Compulsory weekly routine

Additional tasks by subject

Key term support: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Australia

Home Learning Tasks (Voyagers) Date due: Week commencing 13.04.2026 | Be a Regular Reader! | | Be a Word Whizz! | | Be a Mathematician! | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Please read every day and read a range of books. Make sure that you read aloud too as this is a different skill. You will need to make a note of what you have read under each day in your diaries. Remember when you have finished a book write a review or tell us about it. | | Practise the spellings you are given every Friday. You will need to look at these several times a week. We will test on the following Fridays (as a dictation. ) | | Log on to TIMES TABLE ROCK STARS and answer a minimum of 100 questions a week. We will check this on a Friday along with your average accuracy score. We will be looking for this to be above 90% . If you have trouble accessing TTRockstars at home, you can use an iPad at break or lunch times. | | | | Vocabulary quizzes
Voyagers will be having regular quizzes throughout the term to see if they have retained what they have been taught. Please revise the vocabulary on the back of this sheet and their definitions regulary ready for the quizzes! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What animals live in Australia?
Research animals that live in Australia and create a fact file for a chosen animal. | | Australian art
Aboriginal patterns are based on important ancient
stories.
Research aboriginal art and create a piece of aboriginal inspired art in your book. You could also record some of your research in your book. | | Tourist guide
Millions of people visit Australia every year.
Why do people go? What can you see and do? Where is a good place to stay?
Design a tourist leaflet giving information to people interested in visiting. | | | |
West Africa
Locate West Africa on a map and list all the countries located there. | |
Spirituality-What Makes Me “Me”? Create a “This Is Me” page in your homework book.
Include:
• 5 words that describe you
• 3 things you believe are important (e.g., kindness, honesty, friendship)
• 1 goal you have for the future | |
Conditions for slaves
Research what it was like being a slave in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Write a paragraph about what the living conditions were like for the slaves. | | | e The compulsory tasks ( ) must be completed each week. You then need to complete at least one additional task from each coloured column by 17.04.2026 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Australia | The Transatlantic Slave Trade | | Australia | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | transatlantic slave trade | Responsible for the forced migration of millions of people from Africa to the Western Hemisphere from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 19th century. | industry | Activity where raw materials are changed into goods that can be used and traded. | | enslaved Africans | A human being classed as property, who is owned by another person and who is forced to work for nothing (to refer to a person who was enslaved as a ‘slave’strips them of their identify-therefore, the term‘Enslaved Africans’ should be
used. ) | Aboriginal People | People living in Australia from the earliest times,
before the arrival of settlers or colonists. | | Atlantic passage | Sometimes known as the ‘Middle Passage’, refers to the part of the trade where enslaved Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies. | colony | a country, or an area, under the control of another country and often occupied by settlers from that country. | | plantation | Usually a large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, or the like is grown. | settler | A person who has moved, with other people, to live ina new country or area. | | abolitionists | An abolitionist was someone who wanted to end slavery. | mining | Where a raw resource is

FAQs

What tasks are compulsory each week, and what is the deadline?

Compulsory tasks must be completed each week, and at least one additional task from each coloured column must be finished by 17.04.2026.

How should students complete the reading and record it?

Students should read every day and read aloud, then note what they have read under each day in their diaries. After finishing a book, they should write a review or tell what they learned.

What is expected for Times Tables Rock Stars?

Students should log on and answer a minimum of 100 questions each week. This is checked on a Friday alongside their average accuracy score, and the target is above 90%.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Grenda