Home- Learning

Home-learning: All students are expected to have a nightly reading routine, either by being read to or by reading on their own for 10-20 minutes. Reading routines help to build crucial language skills, while also reinforcing a love of reading. 

Home-learning should be a useful and positive experience that complements what is being learned in school. Home-learning should also help students become more independent and disciplined in their study, while creating an opportunity for parents to share in the students’ learning. 

Tasks: Students in Year 1 will receive readers and materials to support their phonics development towards the end of the first term. In addition to nightly reading, students in Year 2 to Year 6 will occasionally be given tasks to complete at home to support their mathematical skills, deepen their understanding within their integrated units, complete unfinished work, or to support their language skills.

Time Limits: Home-learning should never exceed a child’s year level times 10; for example, a year 2 child should not have more than 20 minutes of work two to three times a week with an additional daily expectation of 10 to 20 minutes for reading.

Parents are asked to support the child in their home-learning by:

• Establishing routines that support effective habits for completing home-learning

• Arranging a quiet, suitable place for completing the work

• Reinforcing the idea that home-learning is an important aspect of the child’s responsibility 

• Checking that deadlines are met

• Ensuring that your child reads for 10-20 minutes each evening

Our aim is for students to have a well-balanced life that includes time for rest, play, family connection and an opportunity to explore personal interests. If home-learning becomes a source of tension or stress at home, please let the teacher assigning the work know as soon as possible.