Homework Tasks and Expectations:

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Reading

Please continue to read with your children as much as possible. We recommend short daily reading opportunities and regularly rereading familiar books. We do expect children re-reading the same book three times per week to help to build fluency and develop sight reading skills. It is also important to remember to ask simple questions as you go as this will help children's comprehension. These could be about what has just happened, how a character is feeling, why they choose to do something or what might happen next. It is also important to discuss new vocabulary with children. 

In Year 1, children will receive word bags and these will be updated as new words and sounds have been introduced. Please revisit these with your children regularly.

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Phonics

If your child finds phonics difficult, it is really important that they regularly recap the learnt phonemes from their phonic sessions in school (these will be shared on a regular basis). This helps children overlearn the phonemes and supports them in recognising the phoneme as graphemes which not only supports fluency in reading but is really important for writing too.

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Homework Tasks:

To support your children's learning we have revised the way we set homework. From Term 2, you will still see a homework page and this will indicate the compulsory expectations (as above) as well as provide simple activities that you can do at home to support your child's learning. These are set out as a menu of choice and the idea is that you can choose which task you tackle each week- but of course you can also revisit tasks in different ways if you would like to. There is no expectation that all tasks are completed, these are merely suggested activities that you can do to support your child's learning. As always there will be the suggestion of the topic projects that your child may wish to complete throughout the term linked to our Sweets Galore homework and if families in Year 2 want extension challenges there are also maths questions and reading comprehensions that you are welcome to print. We request that any homework children would like to share with us is done so through photos, videos or audio using the evidence me app. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher.​​