Year 1 Homework

Completing homework plays an important part in ensuring children can consolidate new learning. Little and often is the key to securing new knowledge into long-term memory. In Year 1, the children are developing many of their early reading skills and therefore it is important that they are able to practise their Phonics and writing at home. Please see below an outline of our homework tasks for this half term.

Reading at Home

Remember to read regularly at home. It’s important your child reads to you but you reading to them can be really beneficial too!

Please record home reading in your child’s reading diary. If they read independently and write this into their own diary, please initial what they have written.

Guidance for recording home reading can be found at the front of your child’s reading diary.

Information about the Read Write Inc. reading books your child is bring home can be found on our Year 1 Phonics and Reading page.

Reading Rocket Race

1. Read SEVEN times a week at home to earn an entry into our reading rocket race raffle! Each half-term a lucky winner from each class will be the recipient of a brand new reading book of their choosing.

2. You require ten entries to complete each level:
Bronze – Silver – Gold – Platinum
You will receive a special certificate when you have completed each one!

3. Each week we add your number of home reads onto your running total.
Watch the Reading Rocket Race in your classroom to see who is in the lead to have their name engraved upon our school plaque at the end of the year!

4. If more than one read is recorded on a single date that counts as one read.

For example:
11.9.22 – The Giant Turnip – p1-5
11.9.22 – Cinderella – p15-20
12.9.22 – The Giant Turnip – p6-9
13.9.22 – The Giant Turnip – p10-END
= Three home reads

5. The class with the most reads each week wins our reading rocket race mascot Peter Rabbit and earns themselves 5 minutes of extra play time!

Good luck and happy reading!

Homework Tasks

This half term the children will be sent home with either a letter formation or handwriting activity. They will bring this home on a Friday. This activity does not need to be returned to school. 

The children will also bring home an activity to complete in their homework books. They will bring this home on a Friday and will need to return it by Wednesday.  

Please provide your child with the opportunity to complete these activities.