Wolfson Hillel Primary School

The following is a list of expectations for each year group. Your child should have brought home a number of items to support their learning. Should your child need extra reinforcement or stretch they may be given different work to that described for their year group. This will be at the teacher’s discretion and they will discuss this with you if this is the case. 

All children will be expected to bring in their reading books, records books and passports daily, in book bags. Children’s reading record book should also be used as a contact book should you have any important message you wish to pass to the teacher.

Reading – Try to read with your child or encourage your child to read independently every day. All children will have a reading book until they are secure readers. Books will be changed when you indicate they have been read in their reading record books. Children who are secure readerswill be required to read from the recommended reading list and should record what they are reading in their record book. The lists are on the English page.

Spellings – It is vital that all children can read, write and spell the first 300 words. A copy of these words is on the English page. All children are tested to see what they already know and then they are given a personalised spelling list to learn for the following week.  When children have secured the first 300 words they will be given spellings based on words they regularly spell wrong and words from a higher level challenge list. Spellings will be written in the back of the reading record book. Children in year 6 will be given an additional literacy task weekly.

Phonics – Children will be given the sound of the week in the back of their reading record book. Parents should support children to write five words which include the sound in the back of the reading record book.

Maths – All children in the school have a maths passport. This is either a number bonds passport, a times table passport or both. Please look inside the passport as there are tools to help in the learning. Children are currently being tested and will be given their starting point next Thursday. Please support your children to learn their next level at home. Children in Year 6 will have an additional Maths task weekly. In the table below we have listed our aspirational targets for each year group to give you an indication of where your child should be.

Science / Topic – Children should choose 2 activities from the 10 given to complete each half term. One will be submitted midway through the term and one at the end of the term. Teachers will mark these and place them in the children’s topic books. Children are welcome to complete more than 2 activities but only two can be submitted for marking.

Jewish Studies – Children will be given a 10 minute Ivrit task and a 10 minute JS task weekly.