Homework Expectations
Here at St Edward’s we value the time that parents spend at home supporting their children’s learning. One way they can reinforce the learning that goes on in school is to provide regular time to complete homework tasks.
Foundation Stage children are to asked to practice their blending skills regularly by reading their decodable books and practicing their new sounds. Most importantly, we ask that parents share bedtime stories with their child and talk, talk, talk…
Year 1 and Year 2 children are expected to read each night and continue to practice their blending. The focus of reading books at this stage is a combination of blending sounds and understanding the text. For maths, children need to learn the addition and subtraction facts for each number up to 20. This needs to be repeated regularly to ensure facts are fluent. During Year 2, times tables will be introduced and children will have these to learn each week.
By Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 children are still expected to read each night although increasingly they will read alone and then ideally discuss their reading with parents. Comprehension and inference of texts is the key to learning by this stage, although some children will still be working on decoding increasingly more difficult words. In maths, children will be learning times tables and National Expectations state that children need to be fluent knowing facts up to 12×12 by the end of year 4. All children in Years 2-6 have a log in to Times Tables Rock Stars and are expected to practice regularly. Years 5 and 6 will also receive a maths task each week to complete.