Home Learning

Parents, carers and families are encouraged to be actively involved in the development of their children’s English skills. You can do this in many ways including; sharing books and stories with their child regularly, reading, telling, listening to, and talking about stories, and encouraging conversations about what they have read.

Reading is not just for books. There are lots of opportunities for children to read in day-to-day life; recipes, maps, road signs, emails/messages, jokes, food labels/cereal boxes, song words/karaoke, instruction manuals/how to and menus. Putting on the subtitles on TV can also have a real impact in your child's reading and literacy.

Spellings:

Even in today’s society with all of our computers, phones, tablets and other digital tools, spelling is still an essential skill for children to learn for many reasons:

Strong spelling skills help a child to read more easily because they understand the relationship between letters and the words that they form.
Correct spelling will make work easier to read and understand.
Continued struggles with spelling can alert teachers and parents / carers to the presence of an undiagnosed specific learning difficulty, such as dyslexia.
No matter how technologically advanced our society becomes, as adults we still need to be competent spellers and writers.

If you are unsure how to teach spellings in a way that is not only effective but fun, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher for tips, tricks and advice.

Please find below spellings linked to the age pupils are working at, if you are unsure what age your child is working at, please contact your class teacher.

Common exception words are words that are commonly used in reading and writing, but don't follow standard spelling rules.

Spelling lists are a mixture of words pupils frequently use in their writing and those which they often misspell.