Home Learning: A Recovery Curriculum Pathway
One of the key pathways in our recovery curriculum will be developing the use of ‘Home Learning’ as a means to support Barwick pupils to meet or exceed their year group expectations by Summer 2021. At Barwick, it will become a key aspect of our blended learning approach.
We want to ensure that your child masters the important knowledge and skills within their current year group, whilst finding creative and regular opportunities to consolidate learning from the previous year, in particular potential lost learning.
What is the rationale behind our approach to Home Learning?
According to the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), the benefit of primary children doing additional work at home equates to a “+2 months” impact against a control of doing nothing. If this figure is to be taken at face value, it represents two months out of three that children have missed out on during lockdown. As a school, we feel that this is a strong justification to evolve Home Learning in school- and to do it well.
The EEF further cites that ‘short, focused tasks which relate directly to what is being taught, and which are built upon in school, are likely to be more effective’.
Through Home Learning, pupils will be encouraged to participate in a range of regular, bitesize activities which correspond directly with work done in class. Tasks will either be part of:
Teachers in each year group will generate a clear, sequential scheme which is bespoke to their class, evolves over time, and adapts to the needs of individual children.
What will Home Learning look like?
How will I know what the Home Learning is each week? Where will I find it?
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
Consolidation |
Watch this two-minute video on YouTube: Write a short guide to Column Subtraction. |
10 mins |
This week, we have been using the Column Subtraction method in maths. |
Preparation |
Visit your maths resource area: https://www.barwick-in-elmetschool.co.uk/maths-11/ Read through the PowerPoint on 2D Shapes |
5 mins |
Next week, we will be exploring the properties of 2D shapes. Knowing their names will help! |
How will I know if my child’s teacher has checked my child’s Home Learning?