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Homework

Parents/Carers are encouraged to help their children at home. The school updates the homework policy each year, and the children are given folders to transport their work to and from school. Here are some suggestions as to how children may be helped at school:

Reading to your child, listening to your child read.
Encourage your child to use public libraries.
Talk to your child and encourage them to talk to you to extend their vocabulary.
Assisting your child with research.
Aiding number work by practical activities involving counting, matching, measuring and memorising.
Playing board games and card games.
Training your child to greater degree of independence i.e. dress etc., particularly in the early stages of school life.

We run a homework club at school on Monday and Wednesday. Children are able to stay until 4:15pm and complete their homework; parents are invited to attend with their child.

Guidance and Structure

Year group	Recommended weekly time	Develop a love of reading	Consolidate basic maths skills/Applying and using maths skills in real contexts	Creative Topic Work
The type of activities sent home for homework will be focused on developing our school key skills – Questioning, Teamwork, Creative Thinking, Persevering and Communication.
EYFS	25 minutes	Reading - 5 minutes x 5 with an adult. Books changed: at least 2x weekly. 1 book to share with an adult and 1 book to read independently.
Year 1	60 minutes	Reading - 10 minutes x 5 with an adult. Books changed twice weekly.	Maths activity or English activity and spellings. Maths Games given out on Friday to use over the weekend.	RE work linked to ‘come and See’. Occasional ‘Show and Tell’ preparation or topic research. Family projects Playing board games Practical Maths Activities: Money – counting, shopping / calculating the change, currency conversion Upper KS2. Cooking- measuring and weighing, calculating cooking times. Upper KS2 calculating total weight, using scales accurately. Telling the time- KS1 o’clock, half past, quarter to and past KS2 5 min / 1 min accuracy. Using timetables for travel. Calculating time intervals between TV programmes, bus, train and car journeys.
Year 2	60 minutes	Reading - 10 minutes x 5 with an adult. Books changed twice weekly.	Maths activity or English activity and spellings. Maths Games given out on Friday to use over the weekend.
Year 3 and 4	90 minutes	Reading - 10 minutes x 5 Where possible with an adult. Books changed regularly.	Weekly: maths activity 20 minutes. English activity 20 minutes. Weekly spellings. Maths Games given out on Friday to use over the weekend. (Y3 only)
Year 5 and 6	120 minutes	Reading - 10 minutes x 5 Parents are requested to hear their child ‘performance read aloud’ on a regular basis as a standalone skill. Books changed regularly.	Weekly: maths activity 30 minutes. English activity 30 minutes. Weekly spellings.

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