Home Learning
Empowering all to be enthusiastic learners
Guided support of learning at home is an essential part of a good education. It encourages children to become confident and independent in their learning and ensures continuity between the school and home learning environments, which will help throughout their time at school and as they progress through their education.
How can you help at home?
At Marlow Infants, home learning refers to any learning activity that pupils are asked to do outside of normal lesson time. The activities are generally related to work that pupils are doing in school. It can be done by pupils working on their own or with the support of parents or carers.
When determining our home learning policy, teachers and governors looked at many different options and the impact each option would have on children's development and progress across the curriculum. Educational research, in particular that of the Education Endowment Foundation, was used and this showed us that the impact of home learning on the progress primary children make (especially for those of infant age) is minimal.
As a result, the number of home learning items that pupils are expected to complete has been reduced and have been chosen to have the most positive impact on learning progress, both academically and socially and emotionally.
Expected Tasks
The expected tasks include:
All pupils
- Daily reading
- Daily practising of keywords that are linked to their reading
- Termly specific science-based home learning tasks set by the science lead
- Half-termly home learning activity based on the school values set by the Headteacher
Additionally, for Year 2 pupils
- Practise set spellings each week.
Optional tasks
For those families who want to do additional home learning with their children, teachers provide optional tasks each week which are linked to the current in-school curriculum. These involve consolidation or widening of current learning and include a task which relates to each of the following:
- Maths
- English
- Wider curriculum
We use 2 platforms - Google Classrooms and the school website
Google Classrooms
All home learning is posted on Google Classrooms. This includes the Year 2 spellings, the values home learning, science activities and all the optional items.
School Website
The website hosts the class home pages, the school newsletters, bookings for parent consultations, and is used for the vast majority of our emails/communications.
The Class Home Pages outline the curriculum for each half-term, the class' timetable and have presentations from the curriculum sessions and the Meet the Teacher. There are also links here to other platforms that parents can use should they wish to use them. These pages are updated every half-term.
All parents are given logins to the school website and Google Classrooms when their child(ren) joins the school.
Examples of school values activities:
