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31 July 2010 |
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YOU ARE HERE: Home and School |
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 Home and School
We place great importance on close links between home and school. Staff are always willing to meet with parents but it makes things so much easier if parents can make an appointment in advance. If you have a problem or a query then please telephone and we will try to sort it out. Please let us know of anything that may be helpful to us regarding your child. We have a Home – School agreement which clearly sets out what we can expect from each other and the children. All new parents are asked to read and discuss this agreement with their child and then sign it and send it back to school. We will take a copy to keep and send the original back to you. This agreement is reviewed on a regular basis by the parent representatives on the governing body and your views may be sought at times. Parent Helpers … Parents can volunteer to come into school on a regular basis to help with reading, art activities or a variety of other very useful areas. We also keep a list of parents who are not available on a regular basis but are willing to be called upon to help in other circumstances. All of our helpers are greatly appreciated as they voluntarily contribute to the organisation and smooth running of the school. We have recently introduced a scheme which allows parents to make a date with the class teacher to be a helper for a morning or an afternoon. We hope that this will help parents to keep in touch with their children’s learning.
Home-School Association… The Home School Association welcomes you and hopes that you will enjoy being a member. The Association was formed to help our children by encouraging closer ties between home and school and fostering understanding between them. It also provides a valuable source of help by raising funds to buy equipment not normally available. Parents, grandparents and relatives are automatically members and your ideas, interest, active participation and support are needed if the Association is to flourish. Your Association Chairperson is Mr. S. Hawley. Library… The school is fortunate to have an excellent library facility. We encourage children to use it as much as possible for reference purposes and to borrow books to read for pleasure. It would be an added bonus if parents could continue this encouragement at home and to further instill in children a caring attitude to books so that they remain in good condition for others to borrow. Homework… Our school homework policy was written after consultation with other local primary schools and the middle school. A copy of this policy is available to all parents. Termly newsletters give parents general information on their child(ren)'s learning in the coming months. Parents are invited to support learning at home through talk, background reading, researching websites and visiting places of interest. Newsletters are availble on the 'Classes' page of this site and contain links to websites that can be used to enhance each child's learning. Every child brings home their reading wallet with at least one book every day. We greatly value the input of parents in the reading process and would ideally like all of our pupils to read to an adult and talk about their book at home every day. The reading wallet also contains a reading record where the teachers and the parents can write comments on the children’s reading and comprehension of their books. Every child also has a century square in their reading wallet and a list of suggestions on how it can be used with different age groups to improve their knowledge and understanding of the number system. They bring home a maths game each week to play with parents or other adults and these games practise and reinforce skills learned in class. The older children may also have a maths or a language task and may be asked to carry out collection or investigation activities connected to a class topic. They are always given plenty of time in which to complete this work. If your child is experiencing a difficulty in a particular area, the classteacher may suggest some extra activities at home in order to overcome this or to improve a basic skill. Children work very hard in school and we do not want them to become overtired or disaffected and so we would ask that parents ensure that work at home is not laboured but a pleasurable shared experience. If you experience difficulty in completing homework or daily reading stop and then contact the class teacher for advice. |
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