Children are set home learning each week to support their learning in school. These activities are usually recorded in their Home Learning books although children in years 5 & 6 will generally complete their work electronically in preparation for secondary school.

Weekly English

Children have phonics / spellings to learn each week. Children should know all their phonics by the end of year 1 when they take the Phonics Screening Test.

Children are expected to read every day and parents & carers are encouraged to read to their child, whatever their age (this has a big impact on vocabulary development and understanding, especially when reading books above the reading ability of the child).

Children have a written English activity each week too which may be a worksheet or a computer-based activity. This work can be recorded in Home Learning books or uploaded to Google Classroom. (Weekly activities for children in years 1 & 2 will alternate between maths and English)

Weekly Maths

All children also have a written maths activity to complete each week which may be a worksheet or a computer-based activity. (Weekly activities for children in years 1 & 2 will alternate between maths and English). Again, this work can be recorded in Home Learning books or uploaded to Google Classroom.

Children in years 3 & 4 will continue to have weekly times tables to learn because they should know all of their times tables by the end of year 4 when they take the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC).

Marking & Feedback

Home learning is not marked in the traditional way that parents & carers may expect as research shows ‘in the moment’ feedback has a better impact on children’s learning. So the weekly written activities either feed directly into lessons, is self or peer marked by the children at the start of a lesson or answers are provided for marking at home. In this way, children will become independent learners, be able to identify and correct their own mistakes or apply their skills to new situations.

Foundation Stage

Children in FS (Reception) have weekly phonics to learn and much of this is achieved through reading. Children should share books and read with adults every day.

Half-termly Topic Challenge

Every half term, teachers will provide suggestions of creative activities children can do to enrich and extend their learning at home. This is entirely optional but children will be encouraged to share this learning and their efforts and achievements will be celebrated.

Click on the links below and login with your child’s personal login details to access Home Learning activities.

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