Home Learning at Buckingham Park
Home Learning Guides
The information guide below seeks to inform you as to our rationale and our procedures with regard to home learning. If anything is unclear, please do speak to your child’s class teacher.
We set home learning activities because these activities can:
We also recognise that children learn in so many other ways – by baking, by playing games, by using the computer, by attending dance, brownies, football or church, by visiting new places, libraries and museums. We want to encourage these types of home learning and we have, therefore, set a level of home learning and a time schedule that allows space for these.
We set home learning activities because these activities can:
- Support the ‘little and often’ approach that is so key in learning
- Provide opportunities for independent study that extends, enriches or consolidates the work done in the classroom.
- Link learning at school and in the home
We also recognise that children learn in so many other ways – by baking, by playing games, by using the computer, by attending dance, brownies, football or church, by visiting new places, libraries and museums. We want to encourage these types of home learning and we have, therefore, set a level of home learning and a time schedule that allows space for these.
| Home Learning Guide |
Spell it out...
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Although there are many aids to spelling in this electronic age, being able to recall correct spellings from memory is an important part of writing.
We believe that spelling is best taught alongside reading and writing activities. When Reception children learn to blend their first few sounds, they are already learning spellings. From this point forward, we will continue to teach spelling alongside reading and writing activities in class. The Parents' Guide below explains a little more about our approach. |
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| Spelling Guide |
Time Tables Rockstars
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Times tables (as well as addition, subtraction and division facts) are the building blocks for many more complicated calculations so it is therefore very helpful if these can be learnt as facts as well as calculations. Times Tables Rock Stars is a scheme, supported by web and mobile apps, which promotes the learning of times table facts. We introduce TTRS in Year 2 and it runs through to the end of Year 6.
Click here for further information about TTRS |
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