Home Learning
Home Learning gives the pupil the opportunity to reflect on, consolidate and apply learning.
This has a positive effect on their progress and begins to make them responsible for their own learning; an important skill for their future. The home learning is topic based, and allows for the application of skills that are taught in school.
There are a variety of tasks and due to its whole school topic focus, families can complete home learning together across different year groups. A topic sheet will be stuck in your child’s home learning book. Teachers will explain expectations for their year group at the start of each term. For example; an informative leaflet from a Year 6 child will look very different from a Year 2 child but both leaflets will have information. The children are expected to complete one task each week and can choose from any of the tasks that are set out below. They can be completed in your own way with the resources available to you. Each child has a Home Learning book to complete learning in there. Some tasks are shorter for when you have a busy week at home. Some tasks may take longer if you have more time and want to spend a bit longer on it. (Key Stage 2 children should be spending around 30 minutes while Key Stage 1 children should be spending around 20 minutes on their Home Learning).
They will share their home learning with the whole class through a Table top Home Learning Gallery on their class day each week. In addition, we will have a ‘Connect 4’ incentive each term. If children complete a minimum of 4 tasks each term one from each ‘Tunstall Skill’ they will build up towards a Home Learning Award in the Summer. Also, we will continue to use the Home Learning post cards to send home to children with great effort and great success. Plus, a Home Learning Champion will also be nominated each week and shared on weekly class blogs.
Children - We hope you have fun enjoying the different tasks taking charge of your own learning. Be creative as you can presenting your learning showing your best effort.
The Topic Home Learning is completed alongside other expected home learning, like reading, spellings and learning times tables. There are varying expectations across the year groups and these will be shared by class teachers on class blogs when appropriate.
Please choose one task to do in your Home Learning book and bring in each week to share at your class Home Learning Gallery on Fridays. Please bring in your Home learning book each week even if photos are on tapestry so it can be stamped. Please note the task number completed in your book so it can be easily stamped on the grid inside your book. It is up to you how you present and complete your home learning. Aim to complete at least four tasks in the term to get your Connect 4 sticker (These do not need to be one from each column). Enjoy your home learning, you can complete tasks with family members to join in the learning, we cannot wait to see it. You can complete any of the tasks and to a depth that you choose, the blue tasks are often aimed at older children and the green tasks for younger children. In addition to the Discovery Home Learning challenges above, children are encouraged to read often and complete their weekly spelling tasks shared on the class pages on our website. https://www.tunstall.kent.sch.uk/teaching-and-learning/class-pages Also practise their number bonds and times tables appropriate to their age and stage set by class teachers. |
Human and Physical Geography information
What are different features?
Human and physical features are things that you can see all around you.
Physical features like seas, mountains and rivers are natural. They would be here even if there were no people around.
Human features are things like houses, roads and bridges. They have been built by people.
Features on Maps can show:
- Just physical features - for example when people want to go walking in the mountains.
- Just human features - for example when people want to find their way around the streets in towns or cities.
- Both human and physical features - for example when people go walking in the countryside.
Children are also able to practise and consolidate maths at home using the online resources Maths Shed (all children) and TimesTables RockStars (from Year 2).
The Maths Shed helps children to practise maths via simple games. The games gives four different degrees of support in the form of difficulty modes; Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme. Higher levels allow a higher score to be achieved but children can practise as much as they like on lower levels before trying to gain high scores. The scores achieved give a league position and each class has its own league position within a school league and a world league.
Once your child has their login information they can access the online game at home via Maths Shed
Fluent recall of times tables is key within most areas of maths and the TT Rockstars game allows children to improve their speed and accuracy of recall in a fun and engaging (and sometimes competitive!) way. The website has recently been updated so that when a child plays in the ‘gig’ area, the tables are set automatically using a sophisticated algorithm which diagnoses each child’s strengths to determine where they start.
Once your child has their login information they can access the online game at home via TTRockstars
TTRockstars is also available as an App from the App store and Play Store.
Reading
Reading at home regularly has numerous benefits. There is strong evidence linking reading for pleasure to education outcomes. We know that academic attainment is of vital importance, but the benefits of reading for pleasure go beyond this and stretch throughout a person’s life. Research has found that reading for pleasure can result in increased empathy, improved relationships with others and improve wellbeing.
Reading for pleasure doesn’t just mean that your child reads to you, it can be that you read to them, or another family member. If your child lacks confidence reading to a pet, such as a dog, has been shown to increase confidence and engagement with reading.
Reading opportunities don't just stop at our book boxes and the books on offer in our classroom book corners and libraries. Reading road signs, leaflets that are posted through your door, train timetables, recipe instructions, online articles and sports/theatre programmes are beneficial experiences that equip children with both life skills and word knowledge.
Sittingbourne library is well stocked and a great resource for our pupils. We would encourage all children to sign up for a library card. If you are unable to physically get to the library the children's e-books can also be reserved and read on technological devices.
At Tunstall C of E Primary School, we encourage all children to read as widely and as much as they can in their free time to develop their knowledge and safeguard their sense of wellbeing.
Read Theory - Reading comprehension for Year 6.
Bug Club - Reading for Foundation Stage and Keystage 1