Welcome to Year 3's Homework Hub 2024 - 2025. 

Homework

Following a review of the timetable in every year group, a school-wide adaptation is being made to homework. Currently, the setting and reviewing of homework takes between 30 to 60 minutes a week. This homework is then completed inconsistently, with some children putting a lot of time into their work and others not completing it all.  Therefore, the decision has been made that the hour currently used for homework would be better spent delivering an additional lesson. There are also two key areas of the curriculum where children really benefit from daily practice, so we feel it is better for parents and carers to really focus on these rather than trying to complete a wider set of homework where these two key aspects can be forgotten. From this September, each week we would like every child to complete the following:

Reading.

Your child should read for 10 minutes or more every day. This reading activity needs to be recorded in your child’s reading journal, as this will ensure we can work together to track progress.

Times tables.

This comes in two parts. First, your child needs to spend time learning the times table that we have set them. Each child will have a different times table and their learning will be checked through the use of a weekly times table challenge.

Second, your child is expected to complete a minimum of 10 minutes of TTROCKSTARS activity over the course of the week. This will be in the form of Garage sessions, which will be set on Friday evenings and needs to be completed by the following Wednesday morning. We will continue to award tokens which will be added to the class total each week and will hopefully earn your child's class the honour of being the TTROCKSTARS champions for the term.

TTRS homework is generally set each Friday and should be completed by the Wednesday following the Friday on which it was set. Homework.

The link below will take you to information shared at the Parent's Workshop and subsequent email (18.9.24).

If you need us to talk you through any of the calculation methods or spelling techniques, please come and chat to us. 

KIRFS ( Key Instant Recall Facts)

Each half term we encourage the children to develop a set of Key Instant Recall facts for mathematics. 

This will support you child to calculate their mathematics more efficiently. We have included the parents guides and links to useful online games to support this learning. Please spend about 10 minutes regularly on these KIRFs. 

Reading

Great learners read!

A book can take you to places and on adventures that you can't experience in real life! So, one part of your homework is to find a good book and  read EVERY day for at least 10 minutes where possible. We also need you to be able to talk to us in class about what you have read. 

If you are working through scheme readers then it is very important that you read your scheme book - the more you practise the better your reading will become. Please make sure you read to someone else and that any and all reading is recorded in your journal. 

If you are a 'Free Reader' you can read to someone or to yourself, it can be an actual book, a magazine, an online book or on a Kindle or other electronic device. It can be a book from school, the library or from your own shelf. You can even have someone else read to you! Just make sure that whatever you read you write it in your journal with your own thoughts or comments.