The school definitely recommends homework. There are so many ways in which you can support your child's learning through activities at home.
Children from 3 - 7
Please share books with them, talk about the story and look at the pictures together as often as you can. When you are walking along the road talk about all the things around you. Refer to objects by their correct name and identify colours.
Get your children to help with the washing - pairing up socks that match, counting how many there are, sorting washing into coloured and white.
Count all that you can:- steps as you walk along, counting out the forks and knives when you set the table, making cakes together, putting aways the tins when you have been shopping.
Become a member of the library and visit regularly.
We will send books home to read and sometimes children are asked to find out about things.
Children from 7 - 11
Regular visits to the library and encouraging children to read daily.
Research on topics being studied at school. Each term we send home a newsletter that tells you what each class is learning for the term. Look at the newsletter together and find out information on the subject.
Telling the time - ask them the time, use television programming to help you. Refer to time - how long it took to do something. Get children to time cooking.
Each child is given a piece of English and a piece of Maths every week. Encourage them to sit down at the table to do their work without any distractions.
Weighing and measuring when you are cooking is also a good activity to improve their knowledge of weights and measures.