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| Home Page | Parents | Juniors | Infants | Special Events | Building Project |
Homework Guidance
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Develop
Home/School Partnership
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Consolidate
and reinforce skills
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Exploit
resources for learning outside school
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Extend
school learning
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Encourage
older pupils to study on their own.
Policies
should reflect the progressive nature of learning.
Type and Amount
of Homework at Different Ages.
Homework
should focus on Literacy and Numeracy with other subjects inlcuded as they get
older. It is important especially
with younger children that parents and carers are involved.
Reading
should be the main focus of homework at Key Stage 1, other Literacy homework
would include learning spellings and practising punctuation.
The
Numeracy Task force recommends games and tasks and more formal exercises for
older children. As part of National
Numeracy strategy, there should be guidance for parents to support work at home.
Additional
activities for older children should include:
Ø
finding
out information
Ø
reading
in preparation for a lesson
Ø
preparing
and presentations
Ø
more
traditional written assignments.
Children
should not spend too much time “finishing off” work carried out in class.
Quality
of tasks is more important than precise time spent on them.
Also a regular pattern assists children and families to get into a
routine.
The
amount and content of homework will vary throughout the school.
This will be based upon the children’s needs and their ability to work
independently.
The
majority of activities that children bring home will require some support from
parents and family or carers. You
will also be familiar with most of them as it has long been the practice of the
school to provide a variety of tasks home to reinforce the activities in the
classroom.
The
following activities are designed to assist with children’s development and to
provide parents and carers with the opportunity to take a proactive role in
their children’s learning.
The
Nursery children bring home their library books each week.
b
Home
readers
b
Sight
words
b
Number
bonds
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From time
to time there will be topic related work. This usually involves finding
information.
Homework
folders go home weekly contain the following:
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spellings
to learn
*
language
work related to literacy hour
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Mathematics
related to their topic
*
home
reading book with home reading record book
Within
each half term they will receive topic work related to other subjects such as
history or geography or science.
Children
are given an appropriate time to complete tasks.
Tasks
are usually completed in a Homework book and include the following.
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Differentiated
spelling sheet with related work
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Book
reports
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Differentiated
activities related to the current maths topic.
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Research
challenges to support history, geography work.
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Tasks
related to science work.
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General
knowledge sheet to support investigative skills
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Revision
tasks in preparation for SAT’s (after
Spring half term)
It
is very important that you support your children in their homework.
This does not necessarily mean helping them with particular work.
Occasionally they may need to visit a library or use particular
materials.
We
expect the children to complete and return their homework promptly.
It is very important, especially
for those children going to secondary school,
that they get into a routine. We
look to you to support us in this matter.
If you have any questions to ask about this guidance please contact Mr Rogers.