Home Learning

At St Martin’s School, we believe that homework is a vital link in the working partnership between children, parents and staff. Meaningful and purposeful homework is set to reinforce and extend key concepts that have been taught in school. In addition, it enables children to appreciate the help and support of their families; this also enables parents to be involved in their children’s education.

Purposes of Home Learning

• To foster a close link between parents/school and the wider community in order to inform and encourage participation.
• To widen pupils’ learning experiences and to raise the awareness of parents to the availability and variety of additional learning resources e.g. library, computing, seeking the experiences of others.
• To reinforce, consolidate and extend the learning experience within the classroom and to help teachers monitor the effectiveness of this.
• To promote self-confidence and responsibility in planning, organising and delivering through independent learning

In addition to the homework set in school, children are set a variety of topic work, which is linked to their current half-termly topic. This topic work encompasses a range of skills linked to cross-curricular learning.