Home Learning Expectations

A Caring Christian Family Where We Grow Together
Let Your Light Shine ~ Matthew 5:16

It’s important that we work together as a team so you can support your child where it is most important - beyond the school gate, supporting your child’s learning at home. A great deal of thought has been put into our home learning expectations. There is a range of tasks and activities which will allow the children to practise what they have learnt in school and extend their knowledge.

At no point should home learning ever become a battle or take over your home life. It is vital that children have time to be a child – playing and enjoying time with their family and friends. Every child is different – if you feel that our expectations aren’t quite right for your child, please talk to us and we can adapt them to suit your child. They are NOT set in stone.

Reading – At least five times a week. They will need to record their reading in their reading records.They must read to an adult at least once a week, even when the children become competent readers. Reading is the key to all education and the most important aspect of our home learning. Learning to read is just like learning to play a musical instrument – a little and often is the best policy. This ensures that the skills become embedded into the children’s long term memory. Sharing bedtime stories is also a vital part of helping your child to become a competent reader and writer. By reading regularly to children, you will unlock their imagination and their desire to read.

Spelling and Phonics– You will find the Fred words and /or Tricky Red words in your child's wallet in their book bag. It is important to pracise these regularly to support their reading and phonics.

Maths - Firstly, we would like you to have fun playing games, baking and do practical things with your children that involve some element of Maths. Maths is everywhere. Regular repetition of ordering, writing and counting with numbers 0-10 forwards and backwards will support understanding of number. Have a look at the maths tab for further information about how we teach maths in reception.

Study Theme Work – Each half term your child will be given a list of possible things they need to complete linked to their study theme. There will always be a wide selection of tasks to provide the children with some choice. There is no expectation to complete all of them. It's important that the children focus on something they are passionate about.

Please, don’t do these tasks for the children – it’s pointless, a waste of your time and your child won’t gain anything from it. Instead work together, supporting and helping your child if needed. As the children move up through the school, you should encourage your child to complete these tasks on their own in preparation for High School.These should then be brought into school on the last Monday of each half term.

We understand that families have busy lives and things happen out of our control, so there will be times when you haven’t been able to complete all the tasks set. Just let us know.

The key to successful home learning is getting into a routine – put a timetable together for your family. One that works for you.This will help your child get into good habits for High School. Every child is different – some need a break when they get home, others prefer to get it out of the way. It’s important you find out what works for you.

Additional support and guidance can be found under the parents' tab.

Please find below lots of great websites for you to use at home that have links to a variety of areas of the curriculum. Just click on the image to be taken directly to the website.

White Rose Maths - 1 minute maths