Learning activities

In Key stage one, children will bring home activities or prompts to help them practice new things they have learnt.

Reading and phonics at home

It is really important that children learn to read in a range of different contexts - and that they read for pleasure! Click on the link to find out more about our approach to phonics and reading.

Home Learning Activities

We provide children with activities which will extend and consolidate their learning - with a strong emphasis on reading. Children will bring home a book from the library to enjoy, as well as a familiar, decodable book to support their phonics learning.

Our Reception learners will bring home a keyring containing the graphemes that they have been learning that week. This will start with single letter sounds.

Children in KS1 will also bring home their weekly ‘Spelling Zappers’. This will give them the opportunity to share the words they are learning to spell. These words may be linked to their phonics session, found in their reading book that week or linked to the class topic.

They may also be given a ‘Maths Challenge’ for the weekend. This may be to practise their weighing and measuring skills or counting in 2’s forwards and backwards.

If in doubt - talk!

One of the best ways to support your child’s learning at school is to talk to them about it at home!

A good starting point for this is to ask what they’ve learnt rather than what they did. Ask them about their Questions for Learning - see if you can answer them!

Ask what the trickiest bit was - and what was most interesting.

Reporting to Parent and Carers

We provide a brief report for families at three points in the year and at each point we suggest ways that parents and carers can support their child’s next step in their learning progress.