Home Learning at Shakespeare Infant School

Why is home learning valuable?

At Shakespeare Infant School, home learning is valued as an opportunity for children, parents and teachers to build a shared responsibility for learning.

We believe that home learning can:

• enable children to consolidate and reinforce their skills and understanding, particularly in English and Maths,
• encourage children to develop the independence, self-enquiry, resilience and self discipline needed to begin to study on their own,
• build an effective partnership between home and school,
• enable parents to be involved in their child's education,
• explore resources for learning that may not be available in school.

How can you help your child?

Parents and carers have an important part to play in ensuring that home learning supports their child's learning and development. By supporting their child with home learning parents can have a significant impact on progress.

We ask parents and carers to:

• make sure they are aware when home learning has been set and help ensure it is returned on time,
• make sure that children have the necessary time to do their home learning and a quiet space to work,
• encourage their child and praise them when home learning has been completed,
• be actively involved in joint home learning activities,
• let the class teacher know if their child experiences any persistent difficulties,
• be aware of how much time children are spending on completing home learning.

Reading

Children are expected to read to a parent or carers every day as the essential part of their home learning. We also ask parents and carers to read to their child daily, perhaps from a book their child cannot read themselves. 

Project Home Learning

Home learning tasks are set for each project, usually once or twice each half term. The aim of these home learning tasks is to provide opportunities to creatively explore elements of the project in more depth. The tasks and due dates are given in the project home learning leaflets that are emailed home at the start of each project. These leaflets can also be found on the class information pages on this site.

If you have any queries about home learning please see your child's teacher who would be happy to answer your questions.