Homework Support

Below you will find an overview of the homework provided by school. To help support parents with this, you can download our guides for helping children learn at home by clicking the links below:

Helping Your Child At Home With Reading and Writing

Helping Your Child At Home With Maths

Infant Class Homework:

Reading – hear them read whenever you can, but once a day is recommended, the time spent is dependent on the child’s enthusiasm. This does NOT have to be their school book.                                                                                       

Word Sets – Early readers will be provided with sets of words that need to be practiced until the child knows them instantly, rather than by sounding out. By mastering these high-frequency words, general reading will become a lot easier.  

Spellings – Practice in home spelling book. It is important to get your child to write these out several times over the week, or use the interactive practice on the school website (children often find this more appealing!). Spellings are tested each Thursday.                                                                                                                      

Homework sheet/book (year 2) – this is given out on a Friday to be returned by the following Thursday.

Maths folders – these are changed once a fortnight and are not compulsory. We provide them to offer ideas of how parents can support numeracy at home.

Our policy is to hear all children read twice a week where possible and to move them on the reading scheme at what we consider to be a suitable pace for each individual. It is vital that children understand that part of reading is talking about the pictures, predicting or making up different endings and discussing the story, not simply reading the book from cover to cover. If you want your child to read more, please use your own books, comics, library books or any appropriate text. We also provide a free-choice book from our library at school, this may be more of a story book that you read to your child depending on their reading ability – all children enjoy parents reading to them and it really encourages them to want to be able to read themselves. You can use the home-school reading record to put positive comments about your child’s progress at home.

Junior Class Homework:

Reading – 20-30 minutes every day (again dependent on enthusiasm). Many children at this age will read independently, but they still need to spend time discussing the book with an adult (plot, characters etc). All children will have one school library book which they write a review on when they have finished it and one reading scheme book that has comprehension sheets to go alongside it.                                      

Spellings – we try to encourage the children to learn these independently and to take responsibility to ensure they know them (using the methods listed above).

Target – most children will have a specific homework target relating to a particular set of times-tables.