Home Learning

At Glebe, we believe home learning helps children to develop a positive and resilient attitude towards their education and allows them the opportunity to practise and rehearse vital skills covered in ther school day.  We do not believe that home learning should be an onerous task, or take large chunks of time to complete. With this in mind, we have structured home learning as per the following expectations: 

English home learning:

We ask that you listen to your child  read a minimum of 4 times a week. This can be recorded on the reading record sheet that comes home with your child. We encourage children to read school books, as these are set to their ability, but also provide the opportunity to read for pleasure. 

 We have set a specific number of spellings to be practised each week. It would be a huge benefit to your child’s reading and writing skills if you spend time with them each night ensuring that they are able to access these when we test them. Answer sheets will be sent home after marking, enabling you the chance to monitor your child’s progress.

Maths home learning:

 We believe a secure recall of multiplication tables is vital for so many other areas of mathematical understanding, so regular and consistent practise of multiplication facts is very important.  Every child has a Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS) login, which they will use both in school and at home. Each class will have a competition set up in class each week, with the winners announced on a Friday.  Daily practise on the TTRS app is strongly encouraged.  https://play.ttrockstars.com

Project home learning:

Each half term, the children will also be set a creative project activity. These are class specific and so we ask you to look at your child’s individual home learning sheet to see what activity has been planned and what ideas we have provided to give a little guidance. Children are then expected to return these in the last week of the half term and they will then be expected to show their friends and talk about what they have made. We always look forward to displaying these around school too.

Remote Education Provision 

If a child is absent for a length of time, the teacher and the parent will agree what work should be completed remotely, how it should be marked and what sort of help or support needs to be given to complete the work. In such circumstances, the teacher should consult the Head of School first.

Guidance on providing remote education can be found here: 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/providing-remote-education-guidance-for-schools/providing-remote-education-guidance-for-schools