Home Learning Review, Term 2, 2018
We would like to get feedback from our parent community, on the direction we take with home learning.
Families need to carefully consider what they value when it comes to home learning. Our home learning options need to fit with your values and the time your family wants to put towards this compared with the other valuable family activities you may be involved in.
We know that parents have a diverse range of views on home learning. We also know that each family context is very different and many families already have competing priorities on their time after school.
We regularly hear from parents about the challenge and stress that 'getting children to do home learning' creates for families.
As primary school educators we see importance in children building and maintaining good reading habits through daily opportunities to read in both home and school environments.
There is plenty of research that will argue both for and against other forms of home learning at the primary level.
Your homes present opportunities for your children to develop oral language skills, social skills and values that will enable them to contribute positively to their own future learning, and to the society that they are growing up in. To that end, we prefer to 'offer' home learning opportunities that are flexible and give each student and their family agency to select an approach that will meet the needs of your child. For some families, that selection may be "We are already doing so much - we don't need any more home learning." For others, there will be the ability to choose to engage with the activities that you believe are valuable.
We would like to hear your views on this topic.
Please click on this link, to give us your feedback on this topic.
The link will close for accepting feedback on Monday 4th June