Homework will be handed out on a Friday to be returned on Wednesday.

Maths:

Children will be set maths homework each week. It comprise of one or more of the following:

• Times table rock stars challenges will be set weekly for children to develop fluency and speed of recall 
• Arithmetic papers to develop familiarity with test questions
• Reasoning problems

Literacy:

Children will also be set one independent piece of Literacy to practise key skills learned in class that week. This could comprise of:

• short reading comprehension to develop discrete skills of inference, retrieval or summary
• Accelerated reading - children must be reading at least 20 minutes per night
• Talk for Writing image to plan a story
• Children will also be expected to revise the key spellings each week to be tested upon on Fridays

Homework 15th October:

The homework for 15th October now includes an arithmetic paper (to be completed within 30 minutes - answers are provided) and a short comprehension (Spirit task).