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.

Children will bring home two reading books. Both books will match their current stage of reading based on the sounds that they are learning and are confident with. One book they will have read in Guided Reading in school and the otehr book is unseen. 

In Sandymere children will bring home:

• 2 x reading book matched to their current reading level. These books will be linked to the children’s phonic lessons and will be based on the sounds that the children can confidently read. They will read this book in school one week and bring it home the following week.
• a phonically decodable book timetable, which provides you with ideas for what to do when reading

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.

Maths

Numbots - https://play.numbots.com

All children in Sandymere 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.