Home learning & remote education
Home learning can support your child with establishing good habits of working and organisation, and allows you to be actively involved in your child’s learning experience, which is vital to their success.
Studies show that regular home learning has the potential to raise standards, to extend children’s knowledge, understanding and skills across the curriculum and also helps to improve children’s confidence, resilience and attitudes towards learning.
We therefore consider home learning as a really important part of our school’s learning programme. As such, we set home learning opportunities which allow access to a range of different tasks to suit all abilities and provides open-ended opportunities, which enables children to consolidate and extend their learning.
Project-based tasks
We feel that the best outcomes for children happen when they are able to take control over their own learning. Therefore we have chosen to use project-based tasks as home learning: the projects link closely with the topics pupils are learning at school to embed their understanding of it.
We expect that children will research an aspect of their topic to present at the end of each half term. This may be in the form of a book, an A3 project board, a PowerPoint, a piece of art work: it is entirely up to the children how they would like to present it. Each week the teachers ask the children to share something they have done towards their project which may require them to use a skill they have been using in class.
From Year 1 your child will also get mental maths and spellings home learning to complete. This will be sent home on a Friday and is due back the following Wednesday.
Whilst it is great that children attempt some home learning independently (especially from Year 1 onwards), parental involvement during the week will really help supporting children with their learning journey.
The more involved families are, the greater success they will have in school, even if that is reading through what your child has written, or commenting on their drawings or helping them to learn spelling.
5 Top Tips
- Little and Often! Encourage your child to do a little bit of homework every day so that they are not leaving it all to Tuesday night
- In the zone! Create the right atmosphere for learning. Switch off the TV, put away phones, and sit at the kitchen table with all the things that you need
- Talking is Learning! Ask your child to explain to you or to a sibling what they are learning to do. Talk about the book they are reading. It will really help them to understand and consolidate their knowledge
- Make it real! Can you find ways to transfer the learning to a real life context (e.g. calculating how much money you need for to pay for an item in the shops?)
- Learning Together! Don’t be afraid to show your child that we are all on a learning journey and need to access books and resources too.
If you have questions regarding home learning, do speak to your child’s class teacher or TA in the first instance. If necessary, you could also make an appointment to speak to your child’s Phase Leader.
View our Home Learning guidelines and Policy (under curriculum policies).