Reporting and Homework

Reporting To Parents

We believe that the education of your child involves both home and school! For this reason, we try to report fully to you throughout the year about work and attitude at school.

Please contact your child’s teacher to arrange a time to meet if you would like to discuss any aspect of their schooling.

Homework

We believe in homework and every child will have a task to do every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night. If homework is finished very quickly or if there does not seem to be any homework, then ask your child to sit and read for about ten minutes. 

Homework will be as follows:

  1. For children learning to read, or those whose greatest learning need is for “reading mileage” a reader will be sent home. We ask that you spend about 15 minutes working on this book in a friendly, positive manner with your child.
  2. For other children, the weeks homework will involve learning tables and spelling words. Children will take home appropriate lists of words and tables. With your help they will do well in the tests given on Fridays.
  3. Other items relevant to the classroom programme will be given from time to time.
  4. If you find that your child finishes homework quickly the following activities are most valuable:
    • Silent reading
    • You reading to him/her
    • Asking her/him to tell you a story. Make sure that this is not about a TV programme

We have two special requests:

  1. Please do not let your children stay up too late at night watching TV or videos. We cannot teach sleepy children. As a general rule, I think all primary school children work better if they go to bed between 7.30 pm and 9.00 pm
  2. Please send back all books that children bring home