Home learning update for Years 1-6

Last academic year was a big year for home learning with lots of reviewing and changes. After listening to lots of views throughout the year from the whole school community we feel confident that we have developed the policy so it has much more impact and it puts the emphasis back on the children being responsible for their learning.  Listed below are the routines that have stayed the same and those that may have been adjusted slightly. Further details can also be found in the Year group newsletters.

Routines that have stayed the same:

• Reading books and reading records will go in and out of school daily so any reading done at home can be recorded in the reading records. These need to be signed by parents/ carers. Teachers will check these once a week.
• Focus spelling patterns with example words will go out weekly on a Thursday and some of these spellings will appear in our weekly dictations. Books need to be returned by Tuesdays.
• Children will need to practice their times tables weekly to prepare for our times tables challenge. Practice grids can be found on Maths section of the school website.
• At the start of every Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum, Creative home learning tasks will be set and the children have until the end of that half term (specific dates will be on the task sheets) to choose which pieces they would like to complete and these will be celebrated in our Home Learning Showcases.

Changes to routines

• Years Five and Six now have home learning task books for Maths and Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) that they will complete a section of weekly.
• There will not be set weekly tasks on Mathletics. In replacement for Years 1 to 4, there will be suggested activities or skills to try at home to deepen learning done in school. These will be posted under the week’s learning on Year group notice boards.

Thank you for your continued support with this and we are looking forward to seeing what the children produce.