Google Classroom is the digitial platform the school will be using from autumn term 2020. Each child will have their own log in details.

Please support your child in accessing Google Classroom to see their homework schedule for the week. Homework is updated every Friday. (There is no expectation that homework is required to be undertaken during school holiday periods although we would encourage your child to continue to read as often as possible.) If your child is self-isolating, work from school will also be found here. In some circumstances, hard copies of work may be sent home for children who are self-isolating. 

If children have any difficulty inaccessing Google Classroom, please email either your child's class teacher or the admin office and someone will get back to you. 

In school, we teach children strategies so they may learn their spellings more easily. Spelling is a skill and all skills should be practised to improve. Research suggests that if a child practises a new spelling three times a day, three times a week, they are more inclined to remember. Opportunities for practising spellings in school are enhanced by children practising their spellings at home. 

KS1 strategies:

• Break the word into sounds (w e n t)
• Break the word into syllables (an i mals)
• Break into root words and affixes (a suffix or a prefix) (un happy)
• Use a mnemonic (would- o u lucky duck)
• Use word families (light, might, bright)
• See words within words (friend till the end)
• By movement (write with your finger in the air/ rainbow write)
• By sight - learn the shape of the word

KS2 strategies:

• Break the word into sounds (d i a r y)
• Break the word into syllables (re mem ber) Identify the unstressed syllable
• Break into root words and affixes (a suffix or a prefix) (un necessary
• Use a mnemonic (necessary- it is necessary to have one collar and two sleeves))
• Use word families (would, could, should)
• See words within words (friend till the end, a rat in separate)
• By movement (write with your finger in the air/ rainbow write/ speedwrite/ keyboard)
• By sight - learn the shape of the word/ 'look, cover, write, check'/ tricky part of the word rather than the whole word
• Spelling rules (writing, written - when and why to have double t)
• Use knowledge of root words (two, twelve, twenty)
• Over pronounce (Wed/nes/day) 

Handwriting and Number Formation