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HOMEWORK
All children have weekly homework. This is an excellent way to promote
the partnership between school and home and we expect you to support
your child with this.
All children have a reading record book. We ask you to hear your child read, ask them questions about the book and write a comment on a regular basis, in their reading record booklet.
Each piece of homework will be reinforcing something already taught in class. Your child’s class teacher will explain the arrangements for ‘setting’ homework at the ‘Welcome Evening’ in September.
In setting homework we aim to:
Ø Promote positive attitudes to work and school
Ø Raise achievement of all pupils
Ø Consolidate and reinforce skills and understanding in literacy and numeracy and across the curriculum
Ø Encourage and develop independent learning and increase self discipline
Ø Develop the home/school partnership
Ø Prepare children for secondary transfer in Year 6.
Our homework policy recognises the need for children of primary age to have time after school for other activities and social occasions. All children are encouraged to read at home and to keep a reading record and we ask parents to help with this as well as helping children to learn tables and spellings.
Children in Years 1 and 2 also take home spellings to learn.
From Year 3 teachers ask for other work to be done or completed at home; this may include language, maths and science activities, researching and collecting evidence, topic work or activities designed for individual children.
The varying amounts of time children are expected to work at home increases from Year 3, and follows national guidelines.
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