Helping your child at home can have a huge impact on your child's ability to understand, retain and develop their learning at school. Furthermore, it helps students by complementing and reinforcing classroom learning and fostering good lifelong learning and study habits. It provides an opportunity for students to be responsible for their own learning. For Home Learning to be effective, the activities must be meaningful, relevant and related to work being studied in the classroom. 

Home Learning is an opportunity to develop a partnership with the school by establishing regular Home Learning patterns from an early age. It also enables parents to actively participate with their children in the education process.  By completing Home Learning activities regularly, students are assisted to develop organisational and time management skills. It also promotes self discipline, skills in using out-of-school resources and a personal responsibility for learning.

How Parents and caregivers can help their children to complete Home Learning Activities

You can help your child to complete their Home Learning tasks in a number of ways.

These include:

• Encouraging your child to take increasing responsibility for their learning and organisation. 
• Observing and acknowledging your child's success and asking how their home and class work is progressing. 
• Attending school events, displays or productions in which your child is involved. 
• Encouraging your child to set aside a regular daily session to read and complete Home Learning. 
• Setting an example by reading yourself.
• Contacting the relevant teacher to discuss any problems your child is having with Home Learning.
• Helping your child to balance the amount of time spent completing Home Learning, watching television, playing computer games and engaging in other leisure or recreational activities. 
• Discussing Home Learning in your child's first language, where English is not the main language spoken at home, and linking it to their previous experiences.

Links to useful Learning Websites

Here are some links to free software we use in school:

• Whiterose - Home learning resources from our Maths scheme
• TT Rockstars
• Numbots
• BBC Bitesize Primary
• Scratch Programming Tool
• Interactive Online Learning Games
• National Geographic Kids Primary Resources

To find more useful links to help extend your child's learning, please visit our Home Learning page.