Home Learning

At Hillside, we believe home learning helps children to develop a positive and resilient attitude towards their education and allows them the opportunity to practise and rehearse vital skills covered in ther school day.  We do not believe that home learning should be an onerous task, or take large chunks of time to complete. With this in mind, we have structured home learning as per the following expectations: 

English home learning:

We ask that you listen to your child  read a minimum of 4 times a week. We encourage children to read school books, as these are set to their ability, but also provide the opportunity to read for pleasure. 

 We have set a specific number of spellings to be practised each week. It would be a huge benefit to your child’s reading and writing skills if you spend time with them each night ensuring that they are able to access these when we test them. 

Maths home learning:

 We believe a secure recall of multiplication tables is vital for so many other areas of mathematical understanding, so regular and consistent practise of multiplication facts is very important.  Every child has a Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS) login, which they will use both in school and at home. Each class will have a competition set up in class each week, with the winners announced on a Friday.  Daily practise on the TTRS app is strongly encouraged.  https://play.ttrockstars.com