Types of Homework

Teachers set a variety of homework activities. From the Early Years Foundation Stage onwards, we encourage the children to read by giving them books to take home to read with their parents. We give guidance and information to parents to help them achieve the maximum benefit from this time spent reading with their child.

Early Years Foundation Stage  

In Nursery and Reception children should read, be read to or share a book at least 5 times a week. Reception children have high frequency words to learn each week which are placed into the inside of their reading journal. School learning is shared via Tapestry to parents weekly. Any activities carried out with children at home can be uploaded to Tapestry

Key Stage 1

Children should read 5 times a week. Reading should be recorded in your child’s Reading Record Books on a daily basis. We ask children to learn high frequency words for phonics weekly. Spellings are sent home daily so that parents know what is being learnt in school and can help their children practise at home for weekly tests. We ask that children practise their spellings on a daily basis. Spelling books will be provided on a daily basis and expected in school every day. Spellings will be sent home on a Friday with the spelling test taking place on a Thursday. As a school, we use ‘No Nonsense Spelling’ as a scheme of work to support the learning of spelling throughout Key Stage’s 1 and 2.

Children are also given relevant number bonds and times tables facts to learn on a weekly basis. Number bonds and multiplication facts are sent home on a Friday so that parents know what is being learnt in school. The children will have a number bond or Times table card to keep in their book bag and practise at home. When they are fluent they will achieve their Bronze, Silver or Gold stickers. Children in Year 2 will be given access to TT Rockstar’s where they can practice their time tables weekly. A problem-solving homework Task for maths will be set weekly, based on the learning that has been completed in class and monitored by class teachers for completion.  A Topic based activity will be sent home on a half termly basis.

Key Stage 2

Children should continue to read 5 times a week for at least 20 minutes each day. This should be recorded in your child’s Reading Record Books on a daily basis. In Year 3 to 6 the children are given relevant times-table facts and spellings to learn each week and are expected to log into TT Rockstar’s at least 5 times a week to practise their fluency with multiplication and division facts. The school pays for this online subscription through our pupil premium funding.

Spellings and multiplication facts are sent home so that parents know what is being learnt in school and can help their children practise at home for weekly tests. Again, Spellings will be sent home on a Monday with the spelling test taking place on a Friday. As a school, we use ‘No Nonsense Spelling’ as a scheme of work to support the learning of spelling throughout Key Stage’s 1 and 2.

A problem-solving homework Task for maths will be set weekly, based on the learning that has been taught in class and monitored by class teachers for completion. 

Children in Key Stage 2 will also be provided with a Mathletics username and password and are encouraged to access online activities set weekly by class teachers linked to the learning they have completed in class.

We continue to give children the sort of homework activities outlined in the paragraph above but we expect them to do more tasks independently. 

A Topic based activity will be sent home half termly.

Below you can find the relevant Home learning tasks set for specific Year Groups.