Home Learning

Please find here a range of ways you can learn with your child at home.

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The first suggestion is reading.  A little bit every day goes a long way and this can include:

• Children reading to adults
• Children reading to themselves
• Children reading to siblings
• Adults reading to children (which allows children to access harder books)

Remember that books don’t necessarily have to be school books and indeed children can read a wide range of other things too – magazines, websites, whatever they are interested in.  You can access e-books on Oxford Owl website too, sign up – it’s free!

Your child could also keep a diary or log of what they have been reading and complete tasks such as:

• Draw and describe a character from a book (using the clues in the text)
• Predict what will happen next and why
• Create a glossary of words you didn’t know
• Write an alternate ending to a story
• Transform part of a story into a playscript
• Draw a map of the setting from a story
• Find your favourite 5 bits of description in a text
• Write a book review

You could also do some writing.  To help your child and the sorts of things they need to focus on you can find curriculum overviews for each year group on our school website

Some ideas for writing activities are:

• Do some cooking and write instructions for it
• Look through some photos of an old trip out or holiday and write a report about it
• Try writing haikus (poems with 3 lines – 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) about favourite animals
• Research a key event from history and write a newspaper report from the time
• Or write a story inspired by one of the pictures from the links below

The objectives for each year group for maths are also on the “Maths Yearly Overviews” which can be found on our website.

Tasks that focus on the year group expectations will follow soon but for now the following websites can be used to practise key maths skills:

Try some coding by downloading a free app called “Bee-Bot” which you can find here:

This takes a step by step approach from the first beginnings to some far more challenging things (which might even be an interesting test for parents).

If you’d rather not download an app this website has a similar purpose: