At Holy Family School we believe learning at home is an integral part of education and that parental support and engagement is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that homework activities are enriching; students should be inspired to be creative, reflective and to take responsibility for their development.

The purpose of homework at Holy Family School is to:

• challenge learners
• pre teach topics in preparation for lessons
• check learner’s understanding
• develop learner’s literacy skills

All learners are recommended to read for 20 minutes per evening in Key Stage 2 either independently or as guided by the teacher.  In Key Stage 1 should be guided by an adult at home, using reading books from school or books from home or the library.

Our homework timetable is:

In addition we use a variety of websites and apps to support our learning.

Maths

We use the following websites across most year groups. Your child will be given a log in to the following maths websites which their class teacher will discuss with them. These sites may be used as part of maths learning time in school or for homework or extra learning activities. 

Times Table Rockstars a fun and carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.

Numbots develops a greater understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction to help children move from counting to calculating.

English:

• Accelerated Reader helps us manage and monitor your child's independent reading practice.
• Spelling Shed aims to make spelling fun for children.
• Spag.com helps children in KS2 to practice grammar skills.