Home Learning platforms

In order to support children's learning in school, we have a few non-negotiables that we ask all children to complete weekly. You can read our expectations by clicking on the home learning offer tab. Beyond these core homework activities, Foxfield provides access to several engaging online platforms for optional additional tasks, for which your child has been given a login. These platforms include Letter-Join for handwriting practice, spag.com for spelling and grammar practice, Collins Big Cat e-library for access to all levelled reading books and Numbots for addition and subtraction practice. Class teachers will assign specific activities on these platforms, and children are able to regularly participate in fun activities. 

Children should be encouraged to log into Letter-Join on a weekly basis and complete the activity assigned by their class teacher, linked to the current skill they are learning in class that week. For spelling and grammar, children will be set one activity a week linked to their learning in class. In the Collins Big Cat e-library, the children will have all books within their secure phonics level assigned to their account. This will not replace the physical book they bring home, instead they will have access to reread old titles or have further practice of the previous phonemes they have learnt. From November onwards, the children will be reading longer Fluency books in the classroom. These will be added to the children’s accounts once finished, with any unread titles uploaded once the children move onto the next level. For numbots, the children will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of numbers within 100, including quick recalls of addition and subtraction facts. If the level they choose in ‘Storymode’ is too easy, please move onto the next level - you do not have to complete all elements on this website, although some levels can be used to recall learning from Reception and Year 1. To further support your child’s learning, we will be setting a selection of activities on Purple Mash once every half term. Purple Mash is an online platform containing cross-curricular creative tools and activities that allow children to explore and enhance their knowledge in a fun, engaging way. 

Your child will be expected to work their way through the assigned tasks at their own pace over the course of the half term. The homework will cover a variety of subjects, including core areas such as reading and maths, as well as other curriculum areas like science, history, and computing.