Home Learning

Ideas to support your EYFS child:

• Read with your child as often as you can. Talk about the story and the characters.
• Make up stories
• Build models
• Practise phonics as often as you can – try writing some words and sentences using the sounds you have learnt so far
• Practise counting, recognising and using numbers to 20
• Talk about 2D and 3D shapes and find some in the home
• Letter and number formation
• Play games

EYFS Home Learning Pack

Reception Resources

Useful Websites

Cbeebies - Numberblocks and Alphablocks
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Twinkl - Free access for parents
www.twinkl.co.uk

Ideas to support your Year 1 child:

• Find objects around your home and use your phonics to label them.
• Make up stories together.
• Build models
• Read a book everyday and write a sentence about what happened in the story, remembering to include capital letter and full stops.
• Collect 10 pairs of socks, use them to practise counting in 2s
• Get a pile of your favourite toys or Lego, group them into tens an ones and count how many you have
• Get some seeds and plant them, record how high your plant grows each day.
• Enjoy some poems together.

Year 1 Home Learning Pack

Year 1 Practical Ideas

Year 1 Resources

Useful websites:

teachyourmonstertoread.com
Phonics resources and games

oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Free access to a range of ebooks

nrich.maths.org
Mathematics resources for children, parents and teachers to enrich learning.

topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years
Learning to count is fun with this range of free educational games for Key Stage 1 children.

Ideas to support your Year 2 child:

• Read everyday
• Write book reviews for the books you finish
• Keep a diary (like Samuel Pepys)
• Practise 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• Complete calculations using all four operations (+, -, x and ÷)
• Measure objects around your home and record the lengths
• Go on a 3D shape hunt, write the names of all the shapes you find, then make a table and record the number of faces, edges and vertices for each object
• Write sentences using capital letters and full stops
• Practise counting backwards in ones and tens (use a hundred square)
• Practise counting in 3s
• Identify 2D shapes and talk about their properties (sides, v, symmetry)
• Make up stories
• Build a den
• Research an event or person from history and make a factfile
• Find out about another country - how is it different to where we live?

Year 2 Home Learning Pack

Year 2 Practical Ideas

Year 2 Resources

Useful Websites

www.sumdog.co.uk

www.ttrockstars.com

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

www.twinkl.co.uk

Ideas to support your Year 3 child:

• Recall 3, 4 and 8 multiplications as well as their division facts
• Use everyday objects to write fractions
• Compare, order, add and subtract fractions with the same denominators
• Measure objects around the house using a ruler and record in mm and cm
• Baking is a perfect way to measure mass and capacity
• Tell and write the time in 24 hour and analogue - do this at certain times of the day. Ask your children to help create a timetable
• Draw 2D shapes and use a ruler to measure their sides
• Add and subtract money using both pounds and pence
• Ensure your child reads every day. Ask your child to give you a recount of what they have read.
• Ask your children to keep a diary and include:
  - Conjunctions (if, since, at when, although, because), adverbs and prepositions (during, before, after, behind, in front of, between) to make sentences longer
  - Speech in sentences
• Write a story
• Write instructions / a spell!

Year 3 Home Learning Pack

Year 3 Practical Ideas

Useful websites

Times table rockstars
ttrockstars.com

Ideas to support your Year 4 child:

• Read every day. Ask questions about what might happen next
• Summarise a story using key vocabulary (VIPERS)
• Write a book review
• Practise timetables
• Practise year 3 and 4 spellings
• Encourage addition and subtraction using money. How much change?
• KIRFS - Key Instant Recall Facts
• Use everyday objects to practise fractions - how much pizza have you eaten? What fraction of the socks are blue? What fraction of the cars you can see are red?
• Make a plan to decorate a room and measure the perimeter / area of spaces
• Write an explanation text about your favourite hobby
• Write a story – creating images

Year 4 Home Learning Pack

Year 4 Practical Ideas

Useful website

Times table rockstars
ttrockstars.com/

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/home/

Ideas to support your Year 5 child:

• Read lots of different types of texts and discuss them
• Estimate the area and perimeter of the rooms in your house
• Write a story including direct speech and parenthesis
• Create different fractions using everyday objects, then record and compare them
• Practise Y5/6 spelling words
• Recap specific grammatical terminology
• Practise multiplying 4 digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers
• Practise dividing 4 digit numbers by a 1 digit numbers
• Read, write, order and compare decimals, for example money
• Write a poem about a room inside your house. How many poetry devices can you include?
• Make a sculpture using items around the house that you can upcycle. Consider the different textures and views of your sculpture.

Make a list of human and physical features around your local area.

Year 5 Home Learning Pack

Year 5 Practical Ideas

Useful websites

Spellings:

sounds - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Y3/4 words – https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-12890.htm

Y5/6 - https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-10609.htm

Fun: http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

Handwriting:

https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/samplepages.pdf

Writing:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/keystage2-ks2/ks2-english/ks2-writing

ttp://www.pobble365.com/

Reading:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishbooks.htm

Maths:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html

Science:

https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science

General:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/

http://news.theschoolrun.com/c/1mBKf8K8UGeEnncSOnA4vGrQl

https://www.plazoom.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkbkf4j/articles/zbm8scw

Ideas to support your Year 6 child:

• Recap specific grammatical terminology
• Practise spellings from the Y5/6 word list and put them in sentences
• Read lots of different types of texts and discuss them
• Practise calculating using all 4 written methods of calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
• Explore equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages
• Practise calculations using fractions and decimals
• Find fractions and percentages of amounts
• Read poems and write one of your own
• Complete a traffic survey from where you live
• KIRFs - Key Instant Recall Facts

Year 6 Home Learning Pack

Year 6 Practical Ideas

Useful websites

Spellings:

sounds - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Y3/4 words – https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-12890.htm

Y5/6 - https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-10609.htm

Fun: http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

Handwriting:

https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/samplepages.pdf

Writing:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/keystage2-ks2/ks2-english/ks2-writing

ttp://www.pobble365.com/

Reading:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishbooks.htm

Maths:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html

Science:

https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science

General:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/

http://news.theschoolrun.com/c/1mBKf8K8UGeEnncSOnA4vGrQl

https://www.plazoom.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkbkf4j/articles/zbm8scw