Hertford Junior School

At Hertford Juniors, we value Home Learning.  We believe it can consolidate and enrich the learning that takes place in school and, in addition, provide a window for parents and carers to be a part of their child’s educational experience and development.

In order to ensure children have ownership over their own Home Learning, learners at Herford Junior School will receive a menu of exciting tasks and activities they can choose to complete from their teachers at the start of every term.  Each of these tasks offers an opportunity to develop curriculum skills and learning styles and is worth a certain amount of points.  Children are given a target amount of points to achieve by the end of the term and work is celebrated in class as the term progresses.

Central to the Home Learning menu is the opportunity to develop reading through the use of Reading Journals.  Guidance for reading expectations for each year group and ways in which the reading experience can be enhanced are outlined in the Reading Journal.  Our teachers ask that children complete at least one reading related task a week which will earn further points towards the target.  In addition, tasks which support the development of mathematical fluency are also very important and at ask that at least one a week should be completed.

It is our hope that children enjoy the opportunity to develop their learning further at home.  We believe that Home Learning enables children to develop the confidence to work independently as well as encouraging resilience and organisation.  These learning behaviours may need support from home, but parents and carers are not expected to teach new skills.  We offer a Homework Club every term (places are limited) in order to support families, but if further help is needed, we urge parents and carers to discuss concerns with their child’s class teacher. 

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