We feel it is vital that any home learning activity set by school should be fun and should allow families to spend quality time together. It should not be a task that places pressure on families or encroaches upon valuable family time. Our new approach to homework is worksheet free and through it we aim to:

• Offer fun ways for families to share in and support their child’s journey of discovery;
• Encourage children’s creativity;
• Support the development of pupils’ basic skills linked to reading, writing, speaking and listening and number.
• Promote pupils’ independent learning and research skills.

Every Friday a home learning task will go home in children’s home learning books. These should be completed and returned to school by the following Wednesday. Please come and see us before or after school if you are unsure about any of the tasks set. Sometimes additional homework may be sent home, where we will ask you to discuss a topic with your child to inform future work in class. Additional support tasks may also be set for individual children, if a teacher feels they need extra work to reinforce learning in school.

Every night your child should be encouraged to read at home and it will help enormously if parents read with them. School will provide books, but we are also keen for children to read anything they find enjoyable such as newspapers, magazines, library books, TV guides etc.! Children must bring their school book bag everyday with their school reading book. We aim to hear children read and change their books each week.