Home Learning

What homework will be set?

Reception 

Early reading and phonics is vitally important and as such, homework set in EYFS will focus predominantly on this element of early education. Homework will be set weekly but activities will be set at the EYFS class teacher’s discretion.

Year 1 and Year 2 

Maths

Pupils in Year 1 and 2 will receive a CPG Maths workbook appropriate to their year group at the start of the year. A task will be set from this book usually every other week. In addition, the teacher will encourage more regular practice of number bonds and times tables as appropriate.

All pupils in Year 1 will complete a short arithmetic test each week which will be stuck in their Home School Journal for parents/carers to review alongside their child.  

Writing

Pupils from Year 1 and 2 will receive a CPG Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar workbook appropriate to their year group at the start of the year. A task will usually be set from this on alternate weeks. 

In addition, the teacher will set between 5 and 10 spellings for Year 1 and 2 pupils to learn each week. At least three of these set words will be tested every week when pupils are asked to write a dictated sentence. These sentences will be written into Home School Journals for parents/carers to review at home. In addition to the spelling, your child's punctuation and handwriting will also be marked.

Reading

Reading underpins all education and as such pupils are encouraged to read at home for at least five minutes every day. A record of this reading should then be made by a parent / carer in the child's Home School Journal. 

When will homework be set?

In setting homework we will plan to:

• Establish a familiar routine for pupils and parents.
• Reflect the age and capacity of the pupils involved.

For pupils of all ages, homework will be set systematically by class teachers but will follow, where possible, these procedures:

1. Homework will always be set on a Friday.
2. Pupils will be given the week to complete tasks. Homework will therefore be collected in and assessed on a Thursday.

Where will homework be set?

Each pupil in Year 1 and Year 2 has been given a clear homework bag which contains their homework resources; a green homework work, CPG books, a purple phonics book with phonics resources.  All homework resources are to handed in on a Monday morning.  Green homework books will be updated with the allocated tasks for the forthcomig week and the homework packs are handed back to the children on a Tuesday. 

Marking

How will pupils and parents know what has been achieved?

At Newhampton Church of England Schools Federation, our pupils and parents expect and receive appropriate feedback on homework. Ways of providing these include:

• Monitoring the Reading Record
• Marking – either by school staff or by pupils within school
• Verbal feedback from classroom teachers

Monitoring

From time to time homework books will be checked by the SLT to ensure that this policy is being implemented.

Home School Journals and reading books are to be brought to school daily please.