Home+Learning

=Home Learning=

Depending on the year level of your child they will have basic facts and reading allocated each week. It is expected that these two alone will take up to 30 minutes and will be of significant benefit to improving learning outcomes. In addition to the compulsory homework, we are going to offer as a trial, a significant amount of additional, meaningful, relevant and community based home learning challenges. The catagories ensure that home learning includes many aspects of learning for the child including academic excellence.

The main difference between this style of homework and previous traditional homework used in the past is that children "choose" to participate.

This trial is aligned with the New Zealand curriculum developing Life Long Learners offering a wide range of enjoyable and interesting challenges that will involve the family as well as the child. Please be involved in your child's learning (this alone will have more impact than any homework sheet the school may have sent home in the past) and encourage them to participate.

We would like to engage the community (parents and children) in discussion / consultation of homework during term 2, 2010.

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