Homework

Homework at Over St John’s

Reading

Reading and sharing books at home, as well as in school, is essential and can make a huge difference to a child’s reading ability and helps to develop an enthusiasm for reading and a life-long love of books. At Over St. John’s, we encourage the daily reading and sharing of books at home and all children are expected to read at least four times a week which should be a priority. We carefully monitor the children’s reading at home and encourage parents to be fully active and engaged with us in this in order to support their child’s ongoing development. 

Throughout the school, in each class, children will take the following books home every week:

• 1 x reading book matched to their current reading level
• 1 x library book for reading / sharing for pleasure

Reading can also take on the following forms:

• Independent reading of a school book.
• Sharing a book together.
• Talking about the book together and answering questions about it.

Children may choose to read a book they have read before. This is great. This helps to familiarise themselves with the text and type of book as well as developing fluency and confidence in reading.

Reading that takes place at home should be recorded on our online reading log. Each week, you will receive an email or text from Learning with Parents with a secure weekly reading link to your child’s log. This secure link will take you straight to your child’s reading log home page.  You can log your child’s reading by leaving a comment, photograph or audio clip. The class teacher then receives your feedback and photographs so they can see how your child is getting on. Teachers will acknowledge this reading with a tick.

The online reading logs will be checked weekly by an adult in school and reading is rewarded through our school raffle ticket reward system. For each read recorded on the online log, children will receive a raffle ticket.

Mental Maths/Times Tables

Numbots - https://play.numbots.com

All children in Delamere are expected to use Numbots on a regular basis to practise and consolidate mental maths skills. The games and activities on Numbots are key to helping your child with vital mental maths skills.

Spelling

In Delamere, children will be given spelling words from their year group spelling list and rules. We will have a spell check on a Friday and the date will be provided on the list of spellings your child brings home.

Please spend time each day with your child learning their spellings for the week. Here are some different ideas that you could use to help your child learn their spellings.