Summer 2 Projects

Homework Summer 2 2026

Welcome to Summer 2. Please choose an activity or activities from the list below. Each project links to a different subject area and enhances work already covered in class. Please submit your finished piece by Monday 13^th July 2026.

Completed tasks can either be sent to the class email address or brought into school. Have fun!

History

Create a quiz about the Maya civilisation (with answers). Test your family, friends or class to answer your questions.
Or, for those who requested it again, use the website below to investigate how the Maya lived. Look at the shape of their buildings and temples. Create your own temple or town using Lego, junk material or on Minecraft (with adult supervision). Take a photo of your creation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zq6svcw

Geography

Write a persuasive letter to a supermarket to encourage them to sell more Fairtrade products.
Investigate Fairtrade items sold locally, record your information as a chart, a graph or a presentation.
Create a shopping list of items and record the country of origin. Investigate these products on a map and record your findings. Which items travel the shortest to reach us? Which travels the longest distance to reach us?

https://www.fairtrade.net/uk-en.html

Investigate the journey of the cacao bean. Create a presentation to show its travels.
Make and bake a chocolate-based cake product (with adult help). Ask your family to mark you out of 10 and to critique your efforts. Take photos before you eat it!
Learn to crochet a chain, a double treble, a treble or even a granny square. You can borrow a hook from school if needed. Mrs Schofield will happily show you how!

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/get-started-in-crochet.html#howto

English

Create your own plan of the ‘Magic Faraway Tree’. You can include ideas from the story or magical and mysterious items you would like to see on your tree, such as a slide or marshmallow clouds. Label your diagram with expanded noun phrases.
Create your own character that could live in the tree. What do they look like? What is special about them?

Spend time at the park or in your garden to practise your underarm bowling skills. If you have enough members of your family, play a small game of rounders with a bat and soft ball. Remember not to throw the bat down!