Here’s a quick guide for children and their families regarding homework in Class 5.
Contained in this blog there is: information about homework tasks; as well as guidance on timings; and some suggested resources.
What tasks should pupils be undertaking at home each week?
The following is a list of on-going weekly expectations:
* Learn the list of spellings that will be set (normally on a Monday).
* Every child should be scoring 1,000 points minimum on the Mathletics website (www.mathletics.co.uk). This will earn them a certificate that will be awarded in celebration assembly.
* Children should be reading as often as possible, ideally they would be reading every day. It is important that the pupils are challenged and engaged by the books that they are reading.
* Children should be completing between 2-4 of the maths problems that can be found on the Class 5 blog entry titled ‘Mathematical Problem Solving’. If you click on the link on the blog it will take you to a pdf document containing approx. 30 different maths problems. As previously mentioned, the children should complete between 2-4 of these problems per week.
In addition to these on-going weekly tasks there will be:
1 writing based task per week; and
1 task relating to one of our other subjects.
The details of these tasks will be given to the children on a week by week basis.
How long should the children be spending on homework each day?
The general rule-of-thumb is that the children should spend 10 x their year group in mins. Or to put it simply, 50mins (Year 5 x 10mins). This is, of course, a rough guide and the timings are not an absolute, it is, however, important that the children are completing every task to the best of their ability and this could be less than or more than the 50mins per day recommendation. It is important that children are working on all homework tasks and paying particular attention to the areas of development (e.g. mental maths or handwriting or maths problem solving) that have been identified for them.
Are there any helpful resources?
There are links provided on the Class 5 blog that will take you to websites that provide particularly helpful resources for when the pupils are learning at home. Please look through the different blog entries and if you would like a particular resource then please leave a message in the comments section and we’ll do our best to find you additional resources to help the process of home learning.
Homework is really fun!