Helping your child
Guidance for homework
Midhurst Primary encourages home/school links which recognises the importance of parents/guardians as vital partners in their child’s education.
At the core is our Home-Child-School reading log book, which encourages regular communication between home and school. We strongly advise and encourage parents to hear their children read for a short time on a daily basis. Our older children will also have spellings and times-tables to learn at home. Year 2 start by learning number bonds before progressing onto multiplication tables. They also have weekly spelling homework.
In addition, our Key Stage 2 children are set regular, weekly homework tasks, which might include:
- Preparation for a lesson
- Follow-up from a previous lesson
- Factual or imaginative writing
- Reading
- Fact-finding (research)
- Finding items for display/discussion
- Extension of topic work
- Looking for/at things and making observations
- Family discussion/questionnaires/interviews
- Thinking
- Art work
- Revision
- Maths
For further information on homework, please ask for a copy of the ‘The Extension of School Studies’ Policy.
Personal Projects
In the Spring Term, our Key Stage 2 children work on a ‘Personal Project’.
The aim of the project is to give children a chance to study something they are really interested in. They get to choose what to learn about and how to present it, helping to build up those important independent study skills.
When the children are choosing the subject-matter for their project, we emphasise that, first and foremost, it should be about something that they are particularly interested in. In addition, it should ideally be about something that children can easily find out about – it is really helpful if they already have books or other resources on the subject.
We would expect most of the project to be done as homework, but there will be some opportunities for the children to work on it at school. We will collect in work each week to ensure that the children are keeping ‘on track’ with the project.