Our Home Learning Information

1) Basic Facts Practise: This will be either a basic facts game, or a list of basic facts to practise. Today your child should have come home with a basic facts game for the week. We ask that they bring the games back to school every Friday so we can issue them a new one the following Monday. We have spoken to our classes about keeping these games in as good condition as possible so we can reuse them from week to week; this includes keeping them in the zip lock bags when they play them.

2) Spelling: We will be using the Nessy spelling progamme for literacy this year. We encourage students to log in at home 2-3 times a week to complete the spelling tasks which have been set for them. We will be having a bit more practise on Nessy at school tomorrow and completing the required assessments for the programme, so Nessy home learning can start from tomorrow (Tuesday).

3) Reading: Students are encouraged to read every night.

Poroporo students only: please encourage your child to fill in their orange reading journal each night they read. This does not need to be a big entry, just a recording of the number of pages they read and any comments they might have about what they read. Can they please bring these journals into school on a Friday; each night of reading will move them further up on our reading map.