All homework is set on Google Classroom. Your child will have an individual login to access all weekly homework. Homework can be submitted through Google Classroom or, if appropriate, handed to the class teacher.

Times tables homework to be practised weekly. Children will also have a weekly times tables test in class. This will include multiplication and division facts. Every child will have a Purple Mash login and be able to access the wide range of times table activities and games Purple Mash has to offer. They will also have a Times Table Rockstars/ Numbots login to access times table and division activities.

See Maths Homework on the school website for full details.

Children receive weekly spellings to learn at home. Children are tested each week in school. These are on Google Classroom.

All children have access to Bedrock, a platform for digital learning and Literacy curriculum. This is used in class to support whole class reading and comprehension skills. All learning on Bedrock is tracked using our parent and teacher dashboards. Learning is personalised to each learner and the recapping element supports long-term retention.

Years 3 and 4 Children are expected to complete the allocated pre-test and spend at least 20 minutes per week reading the text and answering the embedded comprehension questions. Texts are personalised to meet the needs of the child’s current reading targets. Teachers will use the information gathered to help assess reading and comprehension needs.

Children are encouraged to read for pleasure. This can be anything from newspapers, to posters and recipes. Reading for pleasure is very important to us here at Grovelands School. We believe that if children are given time to both read high quality books and hear them being read out loud it will ignite their imaginations, improve their writing and most importantly encourage their love of reading. Children will come home with a book of their choice. We encourage parents to share this book with their child. Reading records will be used to record reading (Years Reception – Year 4). Children are also encouraged to bring their own books from home - please ensure these are named.

Essential reads will also be chosen by children to take home. This are specially chosen texts to ensure children are challenged, motivated and encouraged to read for pleasure. They cover a range of text types, genres, themes and authors. These books should be shared at home and recorded in reading records. Teachers should encourage children to record their reading in their reading response books, also.

Children are encouraged to use Purple Mash to support their writing skills at home. There are many creative writing activities and tasks available for the children to explore and use. Teachers may allocate tasks to their class as part of their homework. Google classroom will be used in this case. Tasks can be submitted via Google classroom or on paper, whichever is deemed more appropriate for the child / task.

Each term it is expected that the children create a piece of homework linked to their topic. This should be a creative piece of homework and develop skills in subjects other than English and maths. It could also be a ‘2do’ set on Purple Mash. The children should be given several weeks to complete this homework and once completed should go on display and shared with the rest of the class.