All children at Grasmere are given a zip-lock book bag which contains their home school reading book and a book.

We all know that if children read at home, they are more likely to be successful learners at school. At Grasmere, we encourage children, parents, and carers to read every day and supply parents and carers with information sheets about how to best support your child at home. We always welcome feedback about your child’s reading experiences at home, so please do use the home school reading books to communicate with us.

Homework Challenge Cards

Homework challenge cards are issued to children in Reception to Year 6, every half-term in a red homework book. Over the course of the half-term, children need to choose a minimum of 3 homework challenge tasks to complete and hand to their class teacher by the deadline. If children want to complete more than this, they are very welcome to do so. We encourage children to pick at least one task from each subject area but the choice is down to the children.

The homework challenge tasks are designed to be practical and creative. Parents and carers are asked to use the red homework books to record what children have completed during the half-term. Adults that support the work done at home are free to write confirmations of work that is done or comments to the teacher in the homework books if they wish.

Spellings

Children are given weekly spellings at their own level and are given time in school to learn them. We keep spelling books in school so that we don’t have any lost books or missed weeks of spellings.