The aim of our home learning policy is to promote learning beyond the school day as an essential part of good education. We believe that home learning not only reinforces classroom learning, it also helps children and young people to develop skills and attitudes that they need to be successful lifelong learners.

There is an explicit requirement to address home learning in the home-school agreement.  The headteacher will ensure that home learning is:

- an integral part of the curriculum and is planned and prepared alongside all other programmes of learning

-appropriate to the age, ability and circumstances of the pupils, taking into account special educational needs

-coordinated in order to be manageable for children 

Teachers will ensure that:

-pupils and parents are given a home learning timetable through class newsletters sent by email, indicating when home learning is due for completion

-tasks are structured and their purpose explained to pupils ensuring they understand the task

-it is clear to pupils how their home learning consolidates and extends the work they are doing in school

-work is looked at and/or discussed within class. Time does not allow us to mark work but it will be celebrated where and when possible.

-update parents if any changes at the beginning of each term

The role of parents in working with and supporting their children is very important in a variety of ways:

-Provide a reasonably peaceful, suitable place where your child/children can work alone, or more often for younger children, together with an adult

 -Make it clear to your children that you value the home learning they do, and support the school by explaining why home learning will help their learning

-Praise your children when they have completed their home learning

-Decide, as a family, when it is a good time for home learning to be attempted

-Discuss the work with your child, decide together if your help is needed and what form it might take

-Communicate with the teacher if the work is too hard.

While most tasks can be differentiated, time does not allow us to give individual home learning tasks and children are encouraged to do as much as they are able. We welcome parent feedback about the amount of help their child has needed. We will make every effort to combat disadvantage, for example by being prepared to allow parents and children after school access to resources such as ICT or providing paper copies of resources where necessary.

Every child is provided with a Reading Record. 

For children in Reception to Year 3, we ask parents to sign and date reading records. Reading skills will be taught as part of the weekly timetable.

Children in Y4-6 are expected to fill in their own reading record regularly (under the supervision of a parent) with date, title of the book they are reading and a note of the pages read. The children are also encouraged to write comments about the books they have read.

These will be sent out in the letter at the beginning of every term and will differ in each class but will often link to TTRS Rock Stars for Maths, Commission grids and Spelling/punctuation tasks.