Fair Furlong Primary School

Home Learning

Supporting your child at home with their learning is a vital part of their education and your support can help them to make good or better progress. Home learning will be issued on a Friday and will need to be returned by Thursday at the latest.

Rationale

Home Learning at Fair Furlong will contribute to our overall aim of raising pupil achievement and attainment by:

Involving parents and carers as partners in their children’s learning
Developing the ability of children to extend their learning outside of school and at times to develop their ability to work independently or collaboratively.
Supporting children to revise and consolidate their previous learning and key skills
Preparing our older learners for the demands of secondary school

Principles

Home Learning will:

Be appropriate to the particular age and ability of the children.
The level of work will not over stretch but should be accessible to the children with minimal support from parents or carers.
Almost always relate to recent class work.
Comprise of activities that in the main allow for practice and consolidation of previous learning.
Contain sufficient simple and clear instructions for a parent/carer to understand what the expectations and outcomes are.
Be linked to our reward systems. Teachers will keep records on children returning home learning and reward them.
Aim to be simple for teachers to organise, process, acknowledge and in some cases offer verbal feedback.

Agreed expectations

Home learning should take you no longer than 15 minutes for each task.

Children and their families will periodically receive simple tasks or projects to complete at home and return to school. This helps develop links with home and supports our rationale.
Children have access to the Nursery library to regularly exchange books for sharing at home.

Reading at least four times a week.
Maths packs sent home towards the end of the year to explore at home.
Children are encouraged to practise their number facts using Numbots.
Occasionally children may also receive practical tasks in line with their learning in the weekly bulletin.

Y1 and 2

Reading at least four times a week.
Children are encouraged to practise their number facts using Numbots.
In Year 2, spellings are sent home at the beginning of each term in reading records. You may use the Dicey spellings sheets to practise these.

Y3, 4, 5 and 6

Reading at least four times a week.
Spellings are sent home at the beginning of each term in reading records. You may use the Dicey spellings sheets to practise these.
Maths sheets related to recent learning will have a focus on calculation. In Year 6, as the year progresses, this will move towards preparing children for their KS2 SATs.
Children are encouraged to practise their times tables facts using Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) or Numbots (logins are the same for both these platforms).
A grammar-based Literacy task sheet will also be provided.

In addition to the above home, we often find ICT motivating and enjoyable for the children and is an aid to their learning. The following websites have been recommended by our staff as they link well to our school curriculum and learning strategies. Try working with your child on some of the websites below to enhance their learning.

PHASE I

www.topmarks.co.uk

www.ictgames.com

www.kidsites.com

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcqqtfr

PHASE II AND III

www.topmarks.co.uk

www.crickweb.co.uk

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student (login provided by school)

https://play.numbots.com/#/intro (login provided by school)