| Your child will be given a “Junior Homework Diary” which we hope he/she will look after very carefully as it will help him/her to organise homework throughout the year.
Use of the diary is very simple. When a home task or activity is set by either the class teacher, the Mathematics set teacher or the English set teacher, your child will usually note down briefly what work has been set, and when it needs to be completed. You can oversee your child’s homework at a glance simply by looking regularly at the diary and should you have any comment about it you can note that down in the “Home/Teacher comments” on the appropriate page. Your child’s teachers will keep an overview of the diary with the class teacher monitoring individuals’ use of diaries about once every four weeks.
The “personal” pages of the diary e.g. the “Addresses and phone numbers” page and the “Your Favourites” section can be completed as and when your child wishes. A photograph is optional, entirely at your discretion.
We do hope that your child will make every effort to look after his/her diary; if a diary is lost, he/she may be charged 40p for a replacement.
The setting of homework:
It is anticipated that the following programme of homework will normally apply during this school year:
For children in the Lower School:
• ‘spellings’ will be given regularly by the set teacher
• mental maths tasks will be given on a regular basis
• children will be expected to read regularly at home, to an adult whenever possible
• an occasional homework task may be set by the Maths, English or class teacher
• ‘Holiday Homework’ may be set as required / appropriate.
For children in the Upper School:
• ‘spellings’ will be given regularly by the set teacher
• mental maths tasks will be given on a regular basis
• children will be expected to read regularly at home, to an adult whenever possible
• one piece of maths homework will usually be set each week
• one piece of English homework will usually be set each week
• an occasional homework task may be given by the class teacher, usually 2 per half -term
• ‘Holiday Homework’ may be set as required/as appropriate
• The amount of homework may increase as children move into and through Year 6.
Teachers will do their utmost to ensure that all homework that is set will be marked or monitored as appropriate and feedback/comment will be given to children as appropriate. When verbal feedback is given to a child you may see the letters “vf” written by the teacher on the appropriate piece of homework. (The way in which work is marked or monitored and the way in which feedback is given may vary according to the type of work that is set). |
