This week your child will be issued with a Home Learning Toolkit for you to keep at home.  These kits contain lots of materials to allow your child to complete homework tasks set by their class teachers.  We hope you and your child will enjoy using them.  The toolkit includes pencils, rulers, colouring pencils and much, much more.  Please encourage your child to look after all the materials and put everything back together in the bags once they have completed their tasks.

Teachers will begin issuing homework tasks this week.  Every class will be slightly different and teachers will post the tasks on the individual class blogs.  Due to current Covid-19 restrictions we are unable to have jotters or completed work coming back and forward to school, however the teachers are very keen to see what you and your child are doing at home.  You can share pictures or tell us what you have been doing  through GLOW, either by emailing the class teacher or posting on your child’s individual GLOW blog. Step by step instructions on how to post on your child’s glow page will be in the toolkit.

We will also be posting ideas every week on how to engage your child with different spelling strategies.  These link to the Active Literacy Programme we use in school.  Look out for ‘syllabification’ this week.

Homework reinforces the learning taking place in class and allows you to share in this with your child.   We understand children are tired after a full day at school so try to spend only short periods of time a few nights a week completing the tasks with your child.

If you have any questions regarding homework or accessing GLOW please email me at:

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

Have fun

Mrs Schendel