· At the start of each term teachers will publish a list of 10 home learning challenges (stuck in the front of their homework book and published on the school website).
· These home learning challenges will be linked to the current topic being studied in class - for example this term Year 5 and 6 are looking at the Victorians so their home learning challenges will be Victorian themed.
· Some of the home learning challenges will be English based, some Maths based and some will be more creative.
· All the challenges are linked to the Kent objective frameworks for your child’s year group to ensure that they are completing age appropriate learning at home.
· All the challenges are open-ended, encouraging your child to challenge themselves as much as they feel able.
· Each weekend we are asking the children (and you as parents) to choose one of the challenges to do - you don’t have to do all 10 in a term and you can complete challenges in any order.
· Some challenges will take longer than others, allowing you to tailor the home learning you complete to busy and less busy weekends or to the motivation and energy levels of your child.
· All we ask is that your child completes at least 2 maths based challenges each term, everything else is up to them. Maths based challenges are signposted with a maths symbol on the selection sheet.
As we are getting our Y6’s secondary ready there will be a slight variation for them. They will have 10 English and creative challenges to choose from—one to be completed each week, but also in addition they will have a maths challenge to complete each week. This means that instead of one, they will need to complete two challenges each week, one from the choose it list and one maths challenge.
Each child has been issued with a brand new shiny home learning book in which to complete their homework and keep it all safe. These books have a combination of lined and squared paper to help children make appropriate presentation choices.
If you would like to present your homework in a different way, rather than directly into your homework book then this is also fine—it could be a model, a poster or even a power point presentation—we are happy for you to be as creative as you please.
Home learning will be collected in by your teacher each week on a Wednesday. Teachers will then mark your home learning before sending the books home again on a Friday. There will be a chance to win house points for homework each week and also a ‘most impressive home learning of the week’ award. This won’t necessarily be awarded for the flashiest piece of home learning, but could be for the child who challenges themselves with the content the most fully.
Children will receive a list of spellings each week on a Friday. This list will be sent out in their blue spelling book, either copied neatly in by the child (in our older years) or stuck in neatly by the class teacher. We will also continue to publish the lists online on the website class pages. Children will complete their weekly spelling test on a Friday morning and then these will be marked and sent home in the same book so that you can see how well they have done. Please ensure that your child always brings their blue spelling book into school on a Friday. If children wish to practise writing their spellings out they can do so neatly using the back pages of their homework books—they should not use their blue spelling book for practise.