Homework at Shakespeare Infant School
Why is homework valuable?
At Shakespeare Infant School, homework is valued as an opportunity for children, parents and teachers to build a shared responsibility for learning.
We believe that homework can:
How can you help your child?
Parents and carers have an important part to play in ensuring that homework supports their child's learning and development. By supporting their child with homework parents can have a significant impact on progress.
We ask parents and carers to:
Reading
Regardless of whether it is made explicitly clear, children are expected to read on a daily basis as an essential part of their homework.
We ask parents to read to their child regularly as well as hear them read, even when their child has become an independent reader. Young children also benefit from having stories read to them that they cannot read themselves.
MyMaths
Your child might be set an area of MyMaths for homework. They can also visit the website and choose areas to work on. Please encourage them to access the different areas of the programme which can make a huge difference to a child's abilities and confidence.
English
Children also have Literacy homework to complete usually writing sentences containing spellings learned that week. Please help your child prepare for a spelling class quiz by practising these regularly.
Topic related activities
Your child's class teacher may set a variety of other activities for homework that link with their topic work. These may be given as a separate task to complete over a couple of weeks, or may be set on Purple Mash.
If you have any queries about homework please see your child's teacher who would be happy to answer your questions.