At Vardon School we have "Home-Learning" not home work.
Please choose a quiet, comfortable time of the day. A time that suits your family to share your child's home learning activities together. For some of you it will be as soon as you get home after school, for others it may be after dinner, after a bath, or first thing in the morning. It doesn't matter when it is so long as it a low stress time!
If your child is cranky, hungry or tired, please don't insist. Try a different time of day to complete home tasks We don't want to create unhappy times for either you or your child! If you are worried about anything to do with home tasks, please talk to your child's teacher so we can help you through this. Work at your child's pace. If this becomes stressful - STOP immediately and try again another time.
We want you to have fun sharing your child's learning together, so the more relaxed you are about it the better!
In the first year of school, Home-learning is predominantly reading related. Your child will bring home a reading book from Monday to Thursday. On Friday, they will bring home a Poem pasted into their poetry book. This will be a poem they have memorised over the week. It is not intended that they are able to "read" the poem to you, but they will want to "read" it in their own way. They won't be completely independent in the early stages and we expect you to read the poem with and to your child. Poetry has a wonderful beat and rhythm which helps encourage a love of language.
Some Children will have "letter rings". Please help them to learn the sound the letter makes and the name we give it.
Some Children will also have 'word rings'. These are colour coded to match up with how they are doing in reading. The pink words will help your child learn the words used most frequently as they start to learn to read at the Magenta level. Please help your child to remember the words - but only do 2-3 each night! Remember - If this becomes stressful - STOP
The colour order for the words is:
Pink
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green (by the end of their first year of instruction)
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