At St. Bede’s homework is valued as an opportunity for children, parents and teachers to build a shared responsibility for learning.
We believe that homework can:
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:
Children are expected to read on a daily basis as an essential part of their homework. We ask parents to hear their child read regularly, even when their child has become an independent reader. Young children also benefit from having stories read to them that they cannot read themselves.
Children will have English homework weekly. It may be a piece of writing linked to the topic work, for example, or it may be writing sentences containing spellings learned that week.
Please help your child prepare for spelling tests by testing your child in advance.
We use Timestable Rockstars website to improve times tables. Your child has login and password to access the website.
Your child might be set an area of Mymaths for homework. They can also visit the website and chose other 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.
Your child’s class teacher may set a variety of other activities for homework that link with their topic work.
Please read the weekly homework letter, which informs parents when the homework is due back.
If you have any queries about homework please see your child’s teacher who would be happy to answer your questions.