Homework at Anson

Children receive homework in a variety of ways at Anson.

Reading

All children should be supported beyond the school day to learn to read and develop a love of reading. Children will bring home reading books to support their progress. They will also bring home books from the school library which may be more challenging. Reading at home should include:

• supporting your child to read their book (listening and asking questions)
• Reading their book to them
• Taking it in turn to read pages or sentences
• Playing games using tricky words 
• Becoming a role model for reading by reading at home
• Sharing stories at bedtime

Spelling

Children will be set words to learn as part of their weekly homework. These can be completed online or offline. The words are taken from the Ntional Curriculum. 

You can support at home by:

• going through the words with your child
• creating sentences (verbally) with your child
• playing fun matching games with the words
• looking for words in their books or in the world around you

Mathematics

As the children progress through the school they will be encouraged to try to learn multiplication tables, number bonds or shapes. We use TT Rockstars to support multiplication in order to ensure children can rapidly recall any calculation. Whole School Assemblies celebrate achievement. 

At home maths is all around you. Try to support your child by:

• going shopping together
• baking as a family 
• playing counting games
• playing board games (such as snakes and laddders)  

There are many other opportunities to help at home and become involved in your child's learning. This also includes taking part in whole school competitions. 

Platforms

SeeSaw, Evidence Me, Google Classroom and Mirodo are all used as the portal to deliver the homework.

Our primary goal of all our homework is to help engage parents to support their children and so we keep tasks as simple as possible. It is therefore extremely rare for us to hand out worksheets or stand alone tasks in the name of 'giving homework'.

Homework is more about parents working with their children to support deeper understanding in core areas.