Reading - This will support your children with their skills of comprehension, inference and retrieval. 

To continue the learning and skills taught in school, reading three times a week gives the children the support and practise to move skills from their short-term memory, to long-term memory. Whilst also gently encouraging a love of reading. We encourage children to access any books that align with their interests. These can either be books selected at school, the library or ones they already own. Please record these in their Reading Planner each time and sign their planner at the end of every week. 

This will be supported by regular trips to the library for the children to explore the reading genres and make more informed decisions about their reading. They can also join Library Club after school, which attends the library weekly. 

Times Tables - This will support your child to increase their pace of recall. 

To ensure that your children stay fluent in Times Tables knowledge, we ask that children access Times Table Rockstars through their personal login as often as possible throughout the week. 

This is vital in your child maintaining their fluency of Times Table Knowledge to allow them to work more efficiently when met with a mathematical problem that requires this knowledge.

Rather than spending time calculating the Times Table facts, they can begin solving the problem with their secured knowledge. This is especially important as the Year 6 children move towards their timed Arithmetic SATs paper and are required to work accurately and at speed. 

Mathematics - This will support your child with any areas they may need further support in. 

Year 5, each week we will be completing an arithmetic paper as part of their maths retrieval practise. From this we are going to identify one common area that the children require further practise of. We will then use our Friday retrieval time to revisit the skills in their Mini-Maths Books, alongside 5-10 of these style questions for them to have a go at. These should be returned by the following Friday for this session to be marked. I will upload a video of this method to support you and your child from home whilst they complete these questions.This allows us to address misconceptions and allow your children to have the confidence of their score improving week after week.

Year 6, will also have the above weekly retrieval of skills.

We will also be running a lunchtime club to revisit any mathematical areas that children feel they would like further practise in as we progress through the year. From this lunchtime club, the children will bring home one piece of Mathematic homework to be completed and returned ahead of the next club. These all align to the CorbettMaths Primary Resources we are using. This is usually no more than 20 questions and hasn't usually taken more than 20 minutes. 

Corbettmathsprimary - Videos and Worksheets

This homework will be given in paper form in a folder to support independent revision should the children wish to. Your child will also be given a set of revision cards. 

These can be used at your child's pace. Each card has a QR code that will lead your child to a video modelling how to complete the method/skill and follow our White Rose Maths methods. I am happy to print any additional sheets they would like to attempt in their own time also.