Class 1 Homework

Homework details will be posted weekly on a Friday to be handed in by the following Thursday or Friday. Please look at the relevant year group column.

Expectations by year group:

Reception - Busy Bee Book activity, Daily reading, sharing a Page Turner Book.

Year 1 - Daily reading, sharing or reading a Page Turner Book, Word Work Challenge, IXL maths activities, weekly spellings.

Year 2 - As Year 1 with the addition of regular times tables practise (Times Tables Rockstars) and a weekly comprehension sheet starting from Spring Term 1 (from January onwards).

Occasional/optional activities for Year 1 and 2 - Natterhub (internet safety) activities and holiday projects are detailed below.

Further details on can be found below.

Reading

Reception: At the start of term, your child will receive a book with no pictures. Please share this with your child to allow them to get used to sharing books on a regular basis with you.

At the start of Term 2, the children will receive two Read, Write Inc. book bag books which match the phonics sounds taught in class. Please reread these books with them. Encourage them to sound out the sounds in the words - we call this 'Fred Talk' at school and then blend them back together to read the word. Please write comments in the yellow reading record books and return them on a Thursday or Friday. Please practise the 'red' words sent home which will be added to over the year.

Year 1 & 2 : Two Read Write Inc. reading books will be issued on a Friday to be returned the following week. Please reread these books to develop fluency. These need to be sent back every week to allow us to reissue them.

Once year 2 children have completed the Read, Write Inc. reading programme they will be issued with one reading book.

At the start of Spring 1 term (January), Year 2 children will start to receive a reading comprehension to complete alongside their reading book. Please encourage your child to complete this independently in the first instance and offer support if they find any questions tricky.

Page Turner Books - Please complete a Page Turner Postcard when you have read a Page Turner Book. This is presented to the class during our Friday Book Club session.

Word Work Challenge: consolidating phonic sounds (Year 1) spelling rules (Year 2)

Phonics videos for all Read, Write Inc. sounds are available under the Parents Learning support section of the school website. The Year 2 spelling rule information will be added here weekly. Please encourage your child to write a list of words containing the phonics sound or spelling rule into their word work book. Please ask them to write neatly in pencil.

Maths

IXL maths challenges - set out via the homework sheet by year group.

Times Tables Rockstars: Year 2 - Please use this online platform to help you to learn your timetables - please focus on 2, 5 ,10 and 3.

Year 1 - Times Tables Rockstars Passwords will be issued during the last term of the year to allow children to start to practise in preparation for Year 2.

Spellings

A list of ten spellings grouped by phonic sounds or spelling patterns will be issued for Year 1 and Year 2. Please encourage your child to practise these and talk about the rule together. These spellings will be assessed on a Friday. We encourage everyone to try their best but do not report results to avoid making the assessment too pressurised. The children look at their outcomes the following week without comparing themselves to their peers.

Natterhub - Year 1 & 2

A follow up lesson will be posted for the children to complete after they have taken part in a Natterhub online safety lesson in school. Details will be added to the homework sheet.

Optional Holiday Homework Project - Year 1 & 2

At the end of each term, an optional Homework Project will be suggested for year 1 and 2. This will be an investigation activity linked to one of next term's topics. It can be completed and presented in any format but a Homework Challenge book can be issued if requested to document the work. The work is then presented during the relevant topic lesson the following term.

This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/CLASS_1_HOMEWORK folder.

Documents in folders containing the word 'letter' or 'minute' are listed in the order they were uploaded, most recent upload at the top. Otherwise, documents are listed alphabetically.