Welcome Parents and Learners!
(this page is currently being updated)
Homework/ home learning is always a hot topic. From our experience and reading of recent research, home learning is most powerful and useful when it reinforces/practices a known skill. Our aspiration is to merge the lines of learning at school and at home. Learning happens everywhere and if we want to foster lifelong learners we need to inspire our tamariki to bring learning from home into the classroom and learning from the classroom into the home. Nearly all of the online learning links/ games students use at school can be accessed via the blog using the tabs at the top or by clicking on the links to the right. We strive to provide only links/games that reinforce learning - they may be 'fun' but educational value comes first.
We can not stress enough that it's good to know the aspirational levels for Year5/6 but what WE must focus on is where your children are at now and making a shift from there. Learning is a messy yet beautiful individualised adventure and WE must celebrate your child's progress measured against themselves.
Below are some suggestions for what you could be doing at home to support and extend your child's learning.When supporting your child in their learning we strongly encourage you to keep it light, positive and fun.
Praise, praise, praise your child for their efforts!
SPELLING
Each week students will be selecting 3-10 words from their Essential Spelling Lists to learn (these words have been tested in class and students are only learning the words they spelt incorrectly). Students will have time daily during Literacy, to complete a range of activties to support them in learning their words. We do encourage students practice their words at home in order to prepare for the Friday check in tests. In future Terms we will shift the focus in spelling to rules and conventions.
Click on the lists below to enlarge/ print.
READING
Each week students will be selecting 3-10 words from their Essential Spelling Lists to learn (these words have been tested in class and students are only learning the words they spelt incorrectly). Students will have time daily during Literacy, to complete a range of activties to support them in learning their words. We do encourage students practice their words at home in order to prepare for the Friday check in tests. In future Terms we will shift the focus in spelling to rules and conventions.
The aspiration for Year 5 is to spell most of words on Lists 1-7 correctly by the end of the year and the Goal for Year 6 is to spelling all of the words from List 1 - Commonly Misspelt words correctly by the end of the year.
Click on the lists below to enlarge/ print.
READING
Number Knowledge and Strategy Stages/ Indicators
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
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