Home Learning

Quality First Teaching (QFT) in school is always THE most important thing. Home Learning is seen to accentuate the learning that occurs in school. For us, it is most about practising skills, alongside communicating with each other and learning key life skills at home.

The priorities for learning at home are:

children reading their take home reading book every day (5 times a week);
adults or older children reading to a child- the bedtime story provides such joy, in addition to being a calm part of the the bedtime routine;
practising times tables;
chatting every day- recount the day, summarise certain parts of the day and asking about feelings.

Additional desirable activities are:

learning spellings;
learning number bonds/ facts.

The school provides access to:

hard copies of levelled books and non levelled books;
copies of levelled books and non levelled books online (Collins);
Times Tables Rockstars and NumBots;
Common Exception Words and the school’s handwriting style;
Useful learning websites.

Home Learning is not just about the ‘school subjects’…

These are also important activities:

cooking together;
contributing to home routines- making beds, emptying paper bins, washing/ drying dishes, dusting;
tidying bedrooms;
folding clothes;
watering plants;
washing the car;
watching DIY.

The School Team provide an Enquiry-linked home learning activities for children in Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6). These link to the multiple intelligences (based on Gardner’s principles) or the different ways in which we can learn: