Children are expected to work very hard while they are in school and any home learning issued should not become an unnecessary burden to them. Some form of home learning can however form a link between home and school and can start to develop a pattern of individual study, which will prove useful in later years of schooling.

At Barassie Primary School P1-3 receive their home learning experiences on a weekly basis and P4-7 fortnightly.

How Can Parents Support Home Learning?

Parents can play a very valuable role in several ways – being interested in their child’s school life, making sure that any homework set is done in a peaceful relaxed working environment and giving support and praise for work well done. At every stage reading to and with a child is one of the most valuable experiences any parent can give a child. Any work your child takes home will always have been prepared in school. No child will ever take homework, which will be entirely new.

It is important to distinguish between homework set – a piece of reading, finding out information from home, a piece of research from radio or T.V. – and work given home which, for one reason or another, has not been satisfactorily completed in school.

How Long Should my Child Spend on Home Learning Tasks?

In P1 – 4 homework should not take the pupils any longer than 20 minutes and in P5 – 7 any longer than 30 minutes. There may be exceptions to this rule where, as previously stated, children have not completed the class work. Homework may be set on a daily basis for either four or five nights of the week.

Home Learning at Barassie Primary School October 2020

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