Homework activities are an important part of our home/school partnership and all children are expected to take part in a variety of homework tasks to enhance and support their work in class.
We value the support of parents/carers and we believe that this policy will be successful if there is a strong partnership between home and school which is reflected in the Home - School Agreement. We recognise that all children need leisure time and hope that our policy reflects a balance so children can extend and consolidate their learning with parental support while still allowing ‘down time’.
Reading
We would hope that children read daily and that reading for pleasure is valued at all times and is not just confined to the total time spent completing homework. This would include fostering early reading skills, where appropriate. We aim to promote a love of reading in every child. We encourage parents and carers to discuss their children’s books and ask questions about them to ensure that there is understanding of their books, as well as accurate reading.
Children will be allocated a book band by their class teacher which will suitably challenge their reading ability and help them to progress. Their reading material will be chosen from the correlating reading scheme at school.
Reading Expectations:
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Reading Celebration
To celebrate and encourage reading at Linden, pupils who go ‘above and beyond’ will be able to earn a raffle ticket. This will give pupils the opportunity to be entered into a monthly draw, with the chance to receive a new book. There will be a draw for EYFS and KS1 and a draw for KS2. This award is open to all!
This could include;
Spellings
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Times Table Rockstars
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For children who do not have access to devices at home, paper copies similar to the above tasks will be provided by class teachers where reasonable to do so.
For Times Table Rockstars, it is worth noting that in the summer term of year 4 children will complete the Multiplication Tables Check. Children are expected to answer 25 times table questions (multiplication only) with a maximum of 6 seconds per question.
Additional Homework Tasks
Year groups may set an additional ‘Homework Task’ for the children to complete that focuses on improving a particular skill. Tasks set will relate to work that the children are doing in school and will provide the children with opportunities to consolidate and/or extend their learning further. Homework content may be set as a written piece of homework or may include reading, games and activities to reinforce English, Maths or other skills. For older children an additional homework task may involve children carrying out research prior to a particular lesson. Additional homework will not be on a weekly basis, it will be set as the year group teachers feel necessary.
Knowledge Organisers
A Knowledge Organiser is a single page document that lists the important facts that children should know by the end of a unit for a particular subject. It is the minimum that needs to be known, rehearsed and stored over time in the long term memory. They should be viewed as the starting point for the unit being learnt and referred to throughout the unit.
How can the children uses them at home?
How will these help parents?
To understand exactly what their children should understand and remember. To know what language they should use when discussing learning at home. To know how to support their child in learning about a unit.
Children will bring home paper copies of their science and history/geography knowledge organisers. All other knowledge organisers can be found on the year group page on the school website.
Homework Club
If needed, your child can attend Homework Club on a Tuesday lunchtime to complete their homework. A teacher or Learning Partner will be available at this time to help and support with its completion.