Home Learning

As a parent or carer you can play a vital role in your child’s education, including home learning.  All pupils are expected to complete the following home learning each week:

  • Weekly tasks from the Home Learning Menu (see below)
  • ActiveLearn maths tasks
  • Times Table Rock Star practise
  • Reading – daily
  • Learning spellings
  • Practising their times tables/division facts

Weekly home learning tasks are found on the ‘Home Learning Menu.’ The home learning menu tasks have been set by the teachers within the year group, and cover a range of topics that will be taught across the term.  Your child needs to select at least one task to complete each week, and hand in to their class teacher on the day specified on the menu.  Pupils are invited to share their home learning with their class – this is an opportunity for children to develop their speaking skills and to feel proud of their achievements. As a parent or carer, you can help by encouraging, discussing ideas and by ensuring your child has a good working space at home. Please contact your child’s class teacher with any questions or concerns.  The home learning menus for the current term can be found below:

Home Learning Menus - Autumn 2023

Y3 Home Learning - Autumn 2023

Y4 Home Learning - Autumn 2023

Y5 Home Learning - Autumn 2023

Y6 Home Learning - Autumn 2023

Home Learning Menus - Summer 2023

Y3 Home Learning - Summer 2023

Y4 Home Learning - Summer 2023

Y5 Home Learning - Summer 2023

Y6 Home Learning - Summer 2023 (after SATS)

Mathletics: In addition to the home learning menu, class teachers will allocate online maths activities each week to consolidate the learning in class.  The children need to log onto their Mathletics accounts, using the link in the Quicklinks button above.

As well as the weekly home learning task, your child is expected to learn spellings from a weekly list which your child’s teacher will distribute. Learning the spellings for just a short time each day is more effective than leaving it all to the last minute.

Reading on a daily basis is also expected.  Reading aloud with an adult is important throughout the primary years. Even if your child is a fluent reader, having a discussion about the story (for example, the characters’ personalities and actions, the ‘wow words’ used by the author) is a valuable way to develop reading skills.

For children in Year 3 to Year 6, practising times tables (using Times Table Rock Stars) is also extremely important: by the end of Year 4, children should have a rapid recall of all times tables facts (up to 12x12) and also be able to say the division facts too eg 7×8=56 and therefore also 56÷7=8. ‘Rapid recall’ should be within around five seconds – they should not have to count through the tables facts to get there!