At Chalfont St Giles Village School we have a clear homework policy.
Our aims are:
To involve parents in the learning process by engaging in regular communication.
To encourage children to use every opportunity to share their understanding.
To follow up learning that has happened within the classroom.
To practice skills taught in school.
To encourage thinking and talking about skills taught at school.
We set a variety of homework activities. These activities may include:
Sharing reading books
Games/puzzles
Discussions with parents or other adults at home
Writing tasks
Mathematical problems
Science investigations
Research projects
Will give a library book once a week to share at home.
Will provide a nursery rhyme each week to be practiced at home.
Will provide a weekly letter sound sheet to be practiced at home.
Will ask the children and parents to do tasks linked to their topics when appropriate.
Will follow up these activities back in nursery.
In their final term, children will take home an early reading book to share each week.
Will give Numeracy games to play at home once every two weeks.
Will give the children sets of keywords to learn how to read when children have mastered their initial sounds.
Will arrange for keywords to be tested by a member of staff weekly and when appropriate with each child.
Will ensure children have reading materials that they can share at home.
Will follow up the home reading in a weekly guided reading session and children will be heard to read at least once by another adult.
Will provide parents with a topic guide relevant to the forthcoming topic to share with their children at home.
Will follow up this homework in the classroom.
Will give Numeracy games to play at home with parents every week.
Will follow up this homework in the classroom.
Will provide parents with a list of spellings which could be practiced at home over the course of the year.
Will continue giving children sets of keywords to learn how to read as appropriate.
Will arrange for keywords to be tested by a member of staff weekly and when appropriate with each child.
Will ensure children have reading materials that they can share at home.
Will follow up the home reading in a weekly guided reading session and children will be heard to read at least once by another adult.
Will provide parents with a topic guide relevant to the forthcoming topic to share with their children at home.
Will set one learning log homework and one piece of numeracy homework. This is set weekly.
Will ensure children have reading materials that they can share at home.
Will follow up the home reading in a weekly guided reading session and children will be heard to read at least once by another adult.
In addition teachers will set times tables to be learned at home.
Will provide parents with a topic guide relevant to the forthcoming topic to share with their children at home.
Will follow up this homework in the classroom.
The amount of homework set for the children increases as they move through the school. We expect children in Years 3 and 4 to spend approximately 1.5 hours per week homework and children in Years 5 and 6 to respectively spend approximately 2.0 and 2.5 hours per week. This is in line with the DfEE guidelines.
There is a Homework Club during Monday lunchtime for KS2 children who may find it difficult to complete items of homework at home or need an extra support to complete the tasks.
The needs of all children are taken into account when setting homework tasks. These tasks maybe differentiated so that the children can access the learning at their own level.
April 2016.
Each class in the Junior School now has an email address to use to send in electronic versions of homework. These are only for sending in homework and no emails will be replied to so please do not use these addresses to communicate with staff.
Year 3: AshHomework@csgvillageschool.org or OakHomework@csgvillageschool.org
Year 4: AcerHomework@csgvillageschool.org or PalmHomework@csgvillageschool.org
Year 5: BeechHomework@csgvillageschool.org or MapleHomework@csgvillageschool.org
Year 6: AcaciaHomework@csgvillageschool.org or BonsaiHomework@csgvillageschool.org